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Hoag Offers Breakthrough Clinical Trial for Pancreatic Cancer Patients
Hoag has been exclusively selected as the only hospital in Orange County, and the only non-academic institution, to offer this promising phase 2 immunotherapy clinical trial for solid tumors. Hoag’s commitment to innovation and excellence has earned the hospital a reputation as an effective partner for these investigational new therapies on-par with leading academic centers. … Read More
UCLA, UCI and Hoag Hospitals Score High in Annual Ratings
Three Southern California hospitals — UCLA Health, UCI Health and Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian — received high marks Tuesday in the annual rankings issued by U.S. News & World Report, which judged them to be among America’s best hospitals. The rankings recognize hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging patients and conditions. For the … Read More
Health Crisis Looming Inside a Health Crisis: People are Avoiding Going to the Doctor
These days, Los Angeles acting teacher Deryn Warren balances her pain with her fear. She’s a bladder cancer patient who broke her wrist in November. She still needs physical therapy for her wrist, and she’s months late for a cancer follow-up. But Warren won’t go near a hospital, even though she says her wrist hurts … Read More
The Benefits of Face Masks are Beyond Dispute
At Hoag Hospital, we value our employees, our physicians and our community. We demonstrate that value by following the best available science. The Hoag team has closely adhered to CDC guidelines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial assumptions that the novel coronavirus could only be transmitted by those exhibiting symptoms gave way in April to the … Read More
COVID-19 Less Common in California Hospital Staff than Community, Study Finds
Antibody testing at Orange County, Calif.-based Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian found fewer employees had contracted COVID-19 than the surrounding community, which may be due in part to the hospital’s rigorous infection control precautions, according to a study published in the medial preprint server Medrxiv. The hospital tested more than 3,000 hospital employees and independent medical … Read More
Hoag is First Hospital in the State to Implant Deep Brain Stimulation System for Parkinson's Disease
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian recently became the first hospital in California to implant the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recently approved Percept™ PC Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) system in a patient for Parkinson’s disease. This DBS system detects patient-specific brain signals and provides instant feedback to optimize real-time therapy for patients with movement disorders. Christopher … Read More
Fair Game
Somehow it escaped me, but several weeks ago our City Council adopted a resolution supporting Hoag Hospital “for all of the work that they have done during this COVID-19 crisis and supporting their bid for independence.” The “whereas” entries are many as resolutions such as these tend to have, beginning appropriately enough with Hoag’s founding … Read More
Health Care Workers May be less, Not More, Susceptible to Coronavirus, Study Suggests
Health care workers may be less susceptible to COVID-19 infection than people in the communities they serve, according to surprising early data from an ongoing study at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian. Of some 3,000 workers tested in May and June, only 1% had antibodies to the novel coronavirus in their blood, despite the fact that … Read More
Hoag ER Doc Shares Pandemic Losses, Gains, and Warnings
In January, when he first heard about the coronavirus, Dr. Eric Alcouloumre was not particularly worried. Having worked at Hoag Hospital since 1986 and currently serving as its associate director of emergency services, he thought, “We got this. We controlled SARS. We controlled Ebola. No problem.” The 27-year Laguna Beach resident and his wife, attorney … Read More
Hospital Chaplains Fill Role of Surrogate Family Members During Times of Isolation, Depression, Death
“Can you tell my wife I love her?” It isn’t often that Rabbi Jason Weiner, hospital chaplain and director of spiritual care at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, gets a request like that. It came from an elderly man whose wife had been hospitalized. He couldn’t visit her because of strict guidelines in place to curb … Read More