JW House provides a guest house on the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centre Santa Clara campus where families of patients are welcome to seek overnight or daytime respite while their family member is undergoing treatment. The hospital is close to the Santa Clara Convention Centre where the Flash Memory Summit is held in August each year.
In 2013, NVMdurance attended the summit for the first time where we won the award for “Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology.” However on the flight from Dublin to Santa Clara, I became unwell. I was rushed straight to the hospital upon landing and my wife was advised to fly over immediately.
While I received treatment in hospital, my wife Fiona, stayed in JW House. Because the guesthouse is located on the hospital site there was easy access to me, the patient! Fortunately I recovered within a couple of weeks.
Myself and Fiona are forever grateful that the hospital had this fabulous facility. So when the 2014 event came around, the NVMdurance team decided to donate the TV purchased for our booth to JW House. And JW House made almost $600 in the raffle.
More information on JW House and the people behind it, including JW himself, in JW’s story.
This post was originally posted on LinkedIn by Pearse Coyle. You can view the original post here and follow Pearse on LinkedIn here