The Eisenhower Medical Center, located in Rancho Mirage, California, is a comprehensive, progressive, not-for-profit, community-based healthcare institution. Today, the medical center is comprised of four highly respected entities: Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, the Betty Ford Center, and the Barbara Sinatra Children ' s Center. Together, these organizations fulfill the Medical Center ' s mission, "To provide excellent health care services and education to enhance the health of our community. " The medical center ' s 261-bed non-profit community hospital, Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, is renowned for its excellence in Cardiology, Orthopedics, Cancer Care, Obstetrics, and many other medical disciplines. The hospital ' s dedicated Medical staff and skilled personnel offer high quality care to Coachella Valley residents and visitors through a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostic, treatment and emergency facilities. Bob Hope's affiliation with the Eisenhower Medical Center spans across more than two decades, dating back to 1971, the year in which he and his wife, Dolores, donated the 80 acres of land upon which the Eisenhower Medical Center is today built. For further information about the Eisenhower Medical Center, contact: Joseph C. Tobin 39000 Bob Hope Drive Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 Tel. (760) 773-1851 Bob Hope He has starred in 60 movies, been honored by the Motion Picture Academy of the Arts and Sciences-but he has never won an Oscar. He has played scores of bumbling, cowardly fast-talkers, yet he is the "hero" who brought laughter and cheers to the troops at peace in 1941 to the battlegrounds of World War II, Vietnam, Korea- through Desert Storm 1990. Although he is not particularly known as a singer, he has introduced more than thirty popular songs to the public and has made "Thanks For The Memory" and "Buttons and Bows" famous the world over. Through his humor he tampered with the country's "sacred cows". He's hailed as America's best loved comedian. He holds 53 honorary doctorates (at last count), has written and published ten books, but he never finished college. He has entertained and been honored by eleven Presidents, been courted by royalty and dined with international leaders, yet he speaks for and to the heart of the common man. Not only is he America's most visible patriot, but, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the most decorated citizen in the country, and he wasn't even born here. A golf tournament is named for him. Hospitals, schools, theaters, streets, studios and even flowers are dedicated to him. He's numbered among the top ten most admired men of the 20th century by the adults and teenagers of five generations. He is called "Mr. Humanitarian" and "America' s most prized ambassador of goodwill throughout the world"; the "King of Comedy" and the "Chairman of American Humor." But the monicker that encompasses the whole man is "Mr. Entertainment." For indeed, he is the total, the ultimate entertainer. He has triumphed in all five major show business media-vaudeville, stage, motion pictures, radio and television. Truly, he's "Mister Number One", yet, he reminds people that he was once a song and dance man who was compelled to take second billing to Siamese twins and trained easels. In the entire history of show business, no individual has traveled so far-so often-to entertain so many. His name is Bob Hope.