Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
The Cath Lab performs a complex of procedures vital to the survival of patients with circulatory problems. Its present facility has been replaced with a new building housing state-of-the-art dual-plane technology and a PACs (picture archive communications system). Patients will benefit from better and faster treatment procedures.
Children’s Corner
An area in the Emergency Department 
dedicated to alleviating the fears and anxieties felt by children waiting for themselves or their parents to be treated, the Children’s Corner has been redesigned as a serene area for reading, and for the showing of education videos on a flat-screen television set.
Diabetes Care Program: Keys to Control
This is a new program intended to enhance the treatment of all in-hospital patients with diabetes and hyperglycemia (high blood sugars) secondary to acute illness. Growing medical evidence shows that optimal control of diabetes in such high-risk patients leads to improved hospital outcomes such as reduced surgical complications, rates of infection, renal failures, and shorter lengths of hospital stay.
Emergency Department
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the Emergency Department annually serves some 35,000 Marin County residents. The heart of the ED is an intensely busy central core, where staff opens patients’ charts, send them to physicians, and receive and transmit their recommendations to nurses. The core’s cramped space was restructured to maintain and increase its efficiency and the communications network was updated.
Frances Zolfaghari Memorial Diabetes Fund
This fund is associated with the MGH Diabetes Care Program: Keys to Control. It honors Frances Zolfaghari, who helped develop the research department of Marin Endocrine Care and Research into a lead study site for diabetes clinical drug trials. Its goal is to improve the outcomes and hospital experience for patients who need hospitalization, either for treatment of diabetes-related disease states or for other medical problems that also require state-of-the-art diabetes 
management.
Greenbrae Grill
The Greenbrae Grill provides nourishing food and a comfortable setting for visitors to patients and for the hospital staff. MGH volunteers worked with the Foundation to support a renovation in décor and furniture. Art works adorn the walls of the Grill.
Healing Garden
The Healing Garden of the Radiation Oncology Department (in the Marin Cancer Institute), located in the patient waiting area, was redesigned and refurbished. It is a space that provides people with a respite from their troubles and a feeling of serenity and peace, particularly during times of stress. In the healthcare world, giving patients access to natural settings as a recuperative measure is today considered a measure that encourages recovery.
Nursing Programs and Services Funds
These funds foster the educational development and career advancement of support staff who want to pursue clinical nursing careers, and of nurses who wish to enhance their skills in working with patients. It is anticipated that these funds will help nurses and nurses-to-be cover the cost of tuition for training programs. The funds will also support an educational lecture series and Spanish-language classes for nurses.
Radiation Oncology Department—CT Scanner
A CT (computerized tomography) scanner is an X-ray machine that sends multiple beams from different angles through the body. Computer processing of the information reveals a cross section of body tissues and organs—lungs, bones, soft tissue, and blood vessels. With such data, radiologists can more easily diagnose problems such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases, trauma, and musculoskeletal disorders.
Radiation Oncology Department—Linear Accelerator
The first of two new Varian linear accelerators (linacs) was installed in 2007 in the Radiation Oncology Department of the award-winning Marin Cancer Institute. The new linac delivers a uniform dose of high-energy x-ray to the region of a patient’s tumor, and can destroy cancer cells while sparing the surrounding normal tissue. The linac brings the latest advances in cancer treatment—more radiation beams, higher energies, and more capabilities. The treatments are faster and more accurate.