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More than $165,000 was raised for the nonprofit Epilepsy Support Network of Orange County at the 10th Annual Epilepsy Walk Orange County on May 4, a record for the charitable organization, officials announced in a press release shared on May 23. The Star Wars-themed walk was a...

Healthcare is a complex and often frustrating matter, especially for the person receiving it. Even those with excellent employer-funded insurance can suffer financially after surgery or an emergency procedure. Someone may think they’re covered, but bills can quickly pile up....

According to a new U.S. News & World Report, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach is the highest ranked hospital in Orange County. The report listed the local hospital as third highest in the Los Angeles metro area and eighth in California overall. Hoag was...

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has again been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the “100 Great Hospitals in America.” This is the fourth year (2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016) Hoag has received this designation and is again the only hospital in Orange County to make...

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has opened “Womanology,” a comprehensive, integrated pelvic floor health program for women who are facing incontinence, painful sexual intercourse and other pelvic floor disorders. A new space within Hoag Health Center Newport...

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has completed the Nancy and Bill Thompson Center for Cardiovascular Care at the Jeffrey M. Carlton Heart and Vascular Institute. The new build out brings together world-class cardiovascular programs, state-of-the-art technology and highly...

When the heart skips a beat in poetry and pop songs, it’s usually due to excitement and love. But when the heart beats abnormally in real life, the results can be deadly. To treat heart arrhythmias, or disturbances in the normal rhythm of the heartbeat, surgeons must “disconnect”...

“Twenty-five years of teaching kindergarten tugs at my heart and makes me want to give back,” said Catherine Emmi. This week, Catherine and her husband James gave back in a big way when they donated $1 million to Hoag Hospital Foundation. “Jimmy and I have a deep affection for...

Authorities have identified the man who was pulled from Newport Harbor and later died at the hospital in the early morning hours on Monday. Donald Griffin, 49, died Monday at 12:40 a.m. at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, according to the coroner’s office at the Orange County...

Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage taught me some very important lessons about Medicare, supplemental insurance and healthcare as I enrolled my 90-year-old mother in the hospital one week ago for a full physical evaluation. I thought that our society had moved to far into...

Given the intensity of the debate over Hoag’s affiliation with St. Joseph – Attorney General Kamala Harris’s office is re-examining the agreement – and the various issues afflicting our country (Congress’s general ineptitude, Detroit’s bankruptcy), our city (the controversy over...

This is the storm that never stops.  By now you are well aware of the Hoag Hospital (abortion or no-abortion) controversy as reported in many columns, forums and letters in local newspapers. The national media is beginning to weigh in as well.  To the storm over abortion rights...

A few hundred people showed up Thursday afternoon outside Hoag, some in support and some in protest of the hospital’s recent decision to ban elective abortions. Several pro-choice and women’s groups planned the demonstration in objection to Hoag’s ban on offering elective...

June 10, 1999 was quickly approaching. “I will be home from the hospital by June 20, I have to barbeque hamburgers for my family for Father’s Day.” The surgeon reiterated there was no guarantee. After a kidney transplant a recipient could be in the hospital a couple weeks or...

My first association with hospitals when I very small. I had never been to one, but when my sister got her tonsils out she was given the book, “Curious George Goes to the Hospital.” The story of how Curious George swallowed a puzzle piece and had to have an operation mesmerized...

Kids in the cancer ward at a Long Beach children’s hospital had their heads – and hearts – warmed on Wednesday when a local charity delivered a package of handmade knitted and crocheted caps and other goodies. Knots of Love, a local non-profit that donates hand...

Two of the biggest hospitals in Orange County announced today that they will joining forces to create a combined health care system. The affiliation between Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and St. Joseph Health comes at a time when the healthcare is changing, “to a very...

Kim Phuc, best known from the haunting photograph of her as a young girl running, naked and screaming, from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War, spoke to 1,000 people at Liberty Baptist Church last Sunday. “It is not necessary to face a war with bombs, to be angry, hopeless...

Charlotte turning 2 was no ordinary birthday celebration. She was born three months prematurely, weighing about the same as eight sticks of butter.  Everything we take for granted in a full term, healthy baby, from breathing to eating, was a steep uphill battle as she fought for...

Mark David Allen, the Newport Beach man who had been arrested over 500 times for public intoxication, died early Wednesday morning, according to officials. David J. Sperling, a Newport Beach Police Department custody officer and the filmmaker that documented Allen’s life and his...