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Toshiba Classic strong after early tensions
The players, fans and volunteers change from year to year at the Toshiba Classic at Newport Beach Country Club, while the PGA Champions Tour has touched generations in its length of time at one location. As the world’s greatest 50-and-older golfers tee it up this weekend, the one mainstay is the lead charity – Hoag … Read More
Hoag foundation to hold its largest fundraising drive
The Hoag Hospital Foundation announced it is committing to raising $627 million by 2020 in a comprehensive campaign designed to improve healthcare in Orange County. It is the foundation's largest fundraising commitment in its 63-year history, according to foundation President Flynn Andrizzi. The foundation already has given $328 million in gifts for medical facilities, research … Read More
Falling back on sleep – get ahead of the time change
With the end of daylight saving time fast approaching, some people begin to dread turning the clocks back an hour on Saturday. Research shows most of us feel the effect of time changes for days after we reset our clocks. Sleep is a function of the brain, and the brain needs a little prep time … Read More
Hoag addresses changes in health care with massive fundraising campaign
Hoag Hospital has begun the public phase of a $627 million fundraising campaign for projects and programs that officials said will touch every aspect of patient care. Since the “Hoag Promise” campaign quietly began five years ago, the nonprofit Hoag Hospital Foundation has raised $328 million so far, said Flynn Andrizzi, president of the foundation … Read More
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
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
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
Labeling drug addiction a choice is intellectually dishonest
In recent mainstream articles, addiction has been portrayed as a habit or a choice, instead of what it truly is – namely, a chronic, treatable brain disease. This misconception is both wrong and dangerous, and it flies in the face of neuroscience, which has shown addiction to be rooted in the brain's chemical imbalance and … Read More
Hoag opens on-site rehab facility in Newport Beach
Hoag Hospital has opened a 21-bed residential substance abuse treatment center in Newport Beach, the first in California to be located on an acute-care hospital campus. The facility, called SolMar Recovery, comes at a time when heroin addiction and prescription painkiller addiction are soaring locally and nationwide, and as the Affordable Care Act requires insurance … Read More
Local Focus: Hoag Doctor's Sports Radio Show Hits a Home Run
Here’s a question that even a first year medical student might not be able to answer: What organ of the body gets stronger the more you use it? The answer is bone, according to Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Alan Beyer, Executive Medical Director of the Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Newport Beach, and most recently creator of … Read More