[1][2] Bruce Church donated a 4.58-acre tract for the medical center outright, property owners Emma E. Carpenter and Clarence A. Gordon negotiated with the board selling land on Romie Lane which was "situated midway between the junction of Highway 101 and the Maple Park district".

[4][5] September 1942, California Senator Sheridan Downey announced that President FDR had approved a loan of $100,000 and a grant of $110,000 towards the medical center.

[7] By June 1944, the association had lost the grant and loan from FDR because of provisions of the Lanham Act which the funds could not be used for a brand new building, approval would be pushed back until post-WWII.

The medical center association, led by Church, Merrill, Louis Levy, Charles Butner, and Fred McCarger reprioritized by seeking to purchase the Park Lane hospital, modernize it and grow to 50 beds.

[9][10] By the end of 1945, the funding from the government had dried up due to "red tape and lack of priorities", the association had raised $108,000, plans drawn, and the sewer connections were made on the donated property.

It was anticipated that $250,000 was needed to complete the medical center that they were hoping to build in early 1946 with a move-in date at the end of 1946.

The community should focus on assuring doctor and medical center fees will be paid by making sure everyone is insured calling it '"prepaid hospital care"'.

Pebble Beach, CA architect Robert Stanton stated that it will take him a year to draw up the plans for the 133-bed medical center, bids should go out in early 1950 with completion in 1952.

[19] Rate schedules at the opening were two bedrooms $15.50, large private room with bath $22, bassinets during normal delivery $2.50 a day, premature nursery $9.

[20] On March 29, 1953, the day of dedication, Bruce Church received a letter of congratulations from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which commented on how no state or federal funds were used to build the medical center.

Roy Diaz, a Salinas Tank company hero on Bataan" ... will unveil the plaque dedicated to "the memory of the men and women of the armed forces who made the supreme sacrifice for their community and their nation".

In June 1999, Salinas Valley Health Medical Center became one of the medical facilities to hold the title, along with Stanford University and the Cleveland Research Clinic, “virtual hospital.” On July 21, 2004, the Salinas Valley Health and NASA signed a new Space Act Agreement, which enables them to work together on 3-D, digital fusion-imaging projects.

[24] Since the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit opened in late 2001, it has worked with Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Salinas Valley Health Medical Center and Stanford University are linked through an audio/video network so they can transmit information about each baby if needed.