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Hoag's 'Promise' to Orange County: 'Lead. Innovate. Transform.'
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., September 28, 2015 — Hoag Hospital Foundation today announced the first comprehensive campaign in the organization’s 63-year history, an ambitious pledge to raise a total of $627 million by 2020, making it one of the largest campaigns to date in community-based health care. Known as “Hoag Promise, Our Campaign to Lead, Innovate … Read More
Published On: September 28, 2015
Prescription opioids are a gateway to heroin use in O.C.
Sometimes it begins legitimately. Pain from an injury or a surgery leads to a prescription for Vicodin, Oxycontin or Percocet. But when the pills run out, too often people find they are hooked on a highly addictive drug. That’s when they turn to other opiates, especially heroin. This has led to a “normalization” of heroin … Read More
Published On: September 27, 2015
Hoag Irvine Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary with City
The City of Irvine is arguably the most dynamic community in Orange County. With top-tier schools and high-tech companies, Irvine reverberates with an energy that reaches every corner of the city. It is this vibrancy that has made the last five years so exciting for health care in this community, beginning with Hoag Hospital … Read More
Published On: September 24, 2015
Death in disguise: A broad campaign targets sepsis, which often mimics minor ills
When he started feeling sick one Sunday last year, Stan Tkaczyk “was mad at myself” for not getting a flu shot. It wasn’t until weeks later – after he got severe shakes and called paramedics, after a trip to the emergency room and after his wife, Barbara, told him he’d been unconscious for five days … Read More
Published On: September 22, 2015
Robotic Hysterectomy Treats Uterine Cancer
For about a year, Huntington Beach resident Janis Kirkpatrick, was experiencing irregular bleeding, so she decide to speak with a physician about it. She was referred to Jonathan Wheeler, M.D., a Hoag-affiliated Obstetrician/Gynecologist who discovered that Janis had been through menopause, and that the spotting she was experiencing was post-menopausal. “I didn’t even realize I … Read More
Published On: September 22, 2015
Fighting against endometrial (uterine) cancer
Robotic surgery is also utilized in the fight against cancer – as was the case for Gloria Medlin, a devoted mother, grandmother and energetic Irvine resident. During her annual well-woman check-up, Gloria discussed with her physician that she had been having post-menopausal spotting. She was referred to a gynecologist who performed a biopsy, which determined … Read More
Published On: September 22, 2015
When cancer strikes "below the belt"
When cancer strikes “below the belt,” the results can be devastating to a couple. In addition to standard fears that accompany a diagnosis of the “Big C,” reproductive cancers carry the potential for sexual dysfunction and loss of intimacy. The Pinterpes of Huntington Beach faced those fears. Twice. Sam Pinterpe, 69, was diagnosed with prostate … Read More
Published On: September 22, 2015
Families Trust Mom, and Mom Trusts Hoag
In 2011, Jennifer Yee went from being a happily married woman expecting her first child to an ovarian cancer patient overnight. The elation she felt after years of trying to conceive was suddenly at risk as her world turned upside down. The questions, confusion and fear could have been overwhelming for someone facing two significant, … Read More
Published On: September 22, 2015
Rare Cancer Requires Specialized, Caring Team
Jillian Rossello wanted everyone to forget that she had been an ER nurse at Hoag. “Act like I don’t know anything,” she’d tell her doctors and nurses. Because, in the case of her rare form of sarcoma, she really didn’t. At the age of 28, Rossello was diagnosed with dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), a tumor that … Read More
Published On: September 22, 2015
Melanoma Survivor Thankful for Hoag’s New Melanoma & Skin Cancer Program
"World-class health care and very personalized approach, to have that locally at Hoag, it blew me away."
Published On: September 22, 2015