Du Family Helped Hoag Irvine Meet Surging Emergency Needs

"First day we opened for business, a patient came in, and our doctors and nurses saved [a] life," said Flynn Andrizzi, president of Hoag Hospital Foundation. Especially when the Dus had just given $2.25 million to Hoag Hospital Newport Beach in 2015 for the Benjamin and Carmela Du Endowed...

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Published inOrange County Business Journal Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 1 - 22
Main Author Weitzner, Pete
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newport Beach CBJ, L. P 11.02.2019
Subjects
Donations
Emergency medical care
Gifts
Hospitals
Manufacturing
Oncology
United States > US
Philippines
Newport Beach California
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Summary:"First day we opened for business, a patient came in, and our doctors and nurses saved [a] life," said Flynn Andrizzi, president of Hoag Hospital Foundation. Especially when the Dus had just given $2.25 million to Hoag Hospital Newport Beach in 2015 for the Benjamin and Carmela Du Endowed Chair in Urologic Oncology - for treatment and research into prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in men. [...]the number of emergency patients just keeps rising at the hospital Hoag took over from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. in 2010. The Dus' gift, along with $1 million from fellow civic stalwarts Missy Pace Callero and Chris Callero, and another $1 million from David and Michelle Horowitz, enabled Hoag to increase the size of its emergency facilities five-fold to 17,000 square feet, while exponentially increasing the number of beds at the facility, not to mention installing state-of-the-art robotics for telemedicine and other services.
ISSN:1051-7480