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Hoag Nationally Recognized For Breast Centers
Hoag Breast Center is the first and only hospital in Orange County to be named a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence – the highest level of accreditation – by the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers Program™ (NQMBC™). Recognized for the seventh consecutive year, Hoag Breast Center first received this prestigious designation in 2013 … Read More
Beyond Her Bucket List, Cancer Fighter Sees a Surprising Future
Whenever she goes to Las Vegas, she plays roulette. Deb McCartney doesn’t usually bet the red or the black numbers. She places her money on double zero. The double zero spot on the roulette wheel is green. Actually, picking one number is the worst bet on the board, when you consider the odds. The little … Read More
NRC Health Releases Consumer Loyalty Award Top 100 List
Winners of the Consumer Loyalty Award are identified by results from our nationally syndicated Market Insights study, which surveyed more than 310,000 households across the country from June 2018 through May 2019. To qualify, each organization had to garner at least 150 top-of-mind mentions from the survey. Winning organizations had to achieve an extraordinarily high … Read More
Here's What Doctors Want You to Know About the Care and Keeping of Your Pelvic Floor
Your pelvic floor is a group of muscles and ligaments that support everything in your pelvic region: your bladder, bowel, and, if you have one, uterus. It’s a name we throw around quite a bit, sometimes without actually knowing what it really is. It’s important to have a strong pelvic floor, and there are pelvic … Read More
Gestational Diabetes Education Participation Superior in Hispanic Women
In a cohort of women with gestational diabetes, the participation rate in gestational diabetes education programs was highest for those with Hispanic ethnicity, those who had at least a bachelor’s degree and those who had gestational diabetes during a prior pregnancy, according to findings presented at the American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting. “Optimal … Read More
New Research Shows Vaping Could Cause Serious Injury To Teens
In the past month, about two dozen cases of suspected severe lung injury linked to vaping have been reported in three states. Michael Brant-Zawadski, M.D., F.A.C.R, senior physician executive, and the Ron and Sandy Simon Executive Medical Director Endowed Chair, Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, and Steven Ey, M.D., chief of service, Hoag Addiction Treatment Centers, … Read More
Hoag's Race For Alzheimer's Cure
Hoag Hospital Newport Beach is making progress in research for a cure and ways to prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from the school “have made it possible to learn how key human brain cells respond to Alzheimer’s, vaulting a major obstacle in the quest to understand and one day vanquish it,” the article … Read More
Hoag Named Among Best Hospitals in California
Hospitals in Southern California accounted for more than half of the best 25 hospitals in the state in new quality rankings from U.S. News & World Report, with Newport Beach’s Hoag hospital and UCI Medical Center in Orange making the Top 10. More than 4,600 medical facilities around the United States were evaluated to create … Read More
57 Hospitals With Strong Ratings in 9 Procedures and Conditions
As part of its best hospitals rankings and ratings, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals for their handling of nine surgical procedures and chronic conditions: colon cancer surgery, lung cancer surgery, COPD, heart failure, heart bypass surgery, aortic valve surgery, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, knee replacement and hip replacement. In each procedure and condition … Read More
Award Praises Hoag For Stroke Treatment
Hoag Hospital Irvine has won the American Heart Association/Stroke Association’s Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. Hoag Hospital Irvine earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other … Read More