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Fall 2023

Open Enrollment: Choosing Hoag is Choosing the Future of Medicine

Dear Neighbors, In a career blessed with many amazing moments, none have filled me with as much excitement as I feel today. With the expansion of the Sun Family campus at Hoag Irvine, the addition of top researchers and physician inventors, and the growth of our clinical trials program, Hoag is fulfilling its mission of … Read More

Fall 2023

Hoag Health Center Dove Canyon Now Open

This summer kicked off the grand opening of Hoag Health Center Dove Canyon, the latest expansion that extends Hoag’s excellence further into the South Orange County community. ‘With primary care and urgent care services, Hoag Health Center Dove Canyon provides access to Hoag Medical Group and Hoag Urgent Care physicians and care teams. Hoag Medical … Read More

Fall 2023

This Open Enrollment Season: Meet Your Neighbors

The options are open on what seems like 90 tabs on your computer. HMO or PPO? Medicare or Medicare Advantage? Open Enrollment means choices, and choices are great … if you know what you’re choosing between. Meet four Orange County residents who are weighing the same options as you. They come from different walks of … Read More

Fall 2023

Hoag Medical Group Pediatrics – Caring for Our Community

Compassion. Joy. Love. These are the words that our pediatricians at Hoag Medical Group use when describing why they do what they do. Meet board-certified pediatrician Rachel Zabaneh, M.D., who sees patients out of the HMG Pediatrics office in Foothill Ranch. Dr. Zabaneh believes that listening to her patients is the key to her success. … Read More

Fall 2023

The Truth About Mammography

January Lopez, M.D., director of breast imaging at Hoag Breast Center, wants to set the record straight: “Mammograms save lives,” she said. “Schedule your annual mammogram. It is the most important screening tool you have against breast cancer.” Dr. Lopez is a board-certified, fellowship trained breast radiologist, and a champion for the type of preventive … Read More

Fall 2023

Hoag Breaks Ground on Irvine Expansion

The sun shone huge in the sky during the groundbreaking of the Sun Family Campus at Hoag Irvine this summer, a perfect backdrop to what Hoag President and CEO Robert T. Braithwaite calls “the brilliant future that lies ahead.” To a welcoming crowd of city officials, hospital administration, physician leaders and community members, Braithwaite said … Read More

Fall 2023

New Combination Diagnostic and Treatment Technology Gives Lung Cancer Patients Hope

Hoag is working to detect and treat lung cancer earlier than ever. A robust program of detection, diagnosis, treatment, research, precision medicine, radiation oncology and a team of thoracic surgeons is the reason Hoag Family Cancer Institute sees, diagnoses and treats more lung cancer patients than any other hospital in Orange County. Now, Hoag is … Read More

Fall 2023

Elevating Gynecologic Oncology Care at Hoag

For more than 30 years, Hoag has been Orange County’s most trusted choice for gynecologic oncology care. With a growing high-risk genetics program, nationally recognized robotic surgery leadership and distinguished physicians at the top of their field, Hoag continuously sets – and then exceeds – the standard of gynecologic oncology cancer care. As part of … Read More

Fall 2023

Quadruple Bypass Surgery Patient Thinks All Hospitals Can Learn from Hoag

Film and Broadway executive producer Ivan Williams can describe what it’s like to survive a heart attack. He can talk about his emergency quadruple bypass surgery. But what he wants to explain is how incredible Hoag is at taking care of their patients. “All hospitals should save your life,” he said. “It’s how Hoag did … Read More

Fall 2023

Hoag’s Heart & Vascular Institute Receives National Recognition

Hoag’s Jeffrey M. Carlton Heart and Vascular Institute earned the highest distinction possible, a three-star rating, from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for two categories of surgery – isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and isolated mitral valve replacement and repair (MVRR). Fewer than 20% of hospitals nationwide receive such a high distinction for … Read More