Hanson House is a "home away from home" for the families and loved ones of critically ill or injured patients in Palm Springs area hospitals. It provides low or no-cost accommodations in a Spanish mission style surrounding. Hanson House was conceived and developed by Frank R. Ercoli, M.D., FACS - Medical Director of Trauma and Critical Care Services at Desert Regional Medical Center. In 1999, Dr. Ercoli began an effort to create a place that provided comfort and solace to the families of those patients being treated in the intensive care units of the hospital. He met project benefactor Lord James Hanson, a British industrialist and part-time resident of Palm Springs. Lord Hanson made a very generous seed donation to to start the fund for the facility that is now named for him. Hanson House opened its doors on Christmas Eve 2003.
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