Join us for CHOC Night at Honda Center on Sunday, March 14 as the Anaheim Ducks take on the San Jose Sharks! CHOC patients will be taking part in the festivities during the evening. Help support us by purchasing your ticket(s) to the game.
For more information, click on this link: http://www.choc.com/chocnight/ Be sure to type in Promo code “CHOC.”
Add comment February 23rd, 2010
Born at 25 weeks, weighing only 1 pound, 14 ounces, baby Talan was admitted into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at CHOC Children’s. A few weeks later his mother, Mari, learned that he had necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a gastrointestinal disease common in some premature babies. Mari soon learned that faith and trust in CHOC’s NICU team would make all the difference in their journey home…
Read their story and the many other remarkable stories that happen at CHOC every day: http://www.choc.org/stories/story_detail.cfm?sid=145
For more information about the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at CHOC, please click here: http://www.choc.org/nicu/index.cfm?id=P00532
Add comment January 20th, 2010
As a newborn Andrew was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, a type of blood and bone marrow cancer. Treatment at CHOC Children’s saved his life. Read his story and find out how you can send a message of hope to patients like Andrew this holiday season: http://www.choc.org/giving/index.cfm?id=P00520&wt.mc_id=andrew_blog
Add comment December 9th, 2009
Thanks to the Orange Coast Harley Owners Group and Orange County Harley-Davidson, who are organizing a community toy drive to benefit CHOC Children’s, patients will be sure to have a holiday season filled with cheer!
Anyone interested in donating new, unwrapped toys or gift cards to the patients at CHOC, can deliver them from December 11 to December 23, to the Orange County Harley-Davidson dealership, located at 8677 Research Dr., in Irvine. On Saturday, December 12, from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m., the dealership will provide a pancake breakfast to anyone who drops off donations that day!
Individuals and groups who have donated to CHOC during the holiday season are encouraged to join efforts with the Harley Owners Group and drop off their toys at the Orange County Harley-Davidson dealership instead of the hospital, due to campus construction.
For questions about the Harley Toy Drive, please email the Orange Coast Harley Owners Group at director@ochog.org. For the hospital’s “wish list,” please visit www.choc.org and click on “Give to CHOC,” followed by “Ways to Help.”
Add comment December 8th, 2009
CHOC Children’s Hospital is one of 45 hospitals – and one of only eight children’s hospitals across the nation- named to the “Leapfrog 2009 Top Hospitals” list, based on results from The Leapfrog Hospital Survey. CHOC’s survey score was 97.2 points out of 100 possible points, as compared to an average score of 72.4 for children’s hospitals across the country. The survey (found at www.leapfroggroup.org) is the only national, public comparison of hospitals on key issues including mortality rates for certain common procedures, infection rates, safety practices and measures of efficiency.
According to The Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder, “This year’s class of Top Hospitals not only hits the mark in areas such as medication error prevention and ICU deaths, but they also use their resources wisely, providing excellent and efficient outcomes for patients. Regardless of what happens to healthcare reform, these hospitals are the future.”
For more details, please check out our press release at http://www.choc.org/pressroom/news.cfm?nid=542
Add comment December 3rd, 2009
To my CHOC family – here’s wishing you a very happy hospital week. This is a perfect time for me to tell you how proud I am of everything CHOC has accomplished this year — the Silver Level CAPE Award, the affiliation with UC Irvine and our plans to build one of the most advanced children’s hospitals in the nation (just to name a few). Thank you for everything you do to advance pediatric healthcare.
Add comment May 15th, 2009
I have a confession to make – I love the nurses at CHOC Children’s, and here’s one more reason why: two of our nursing leaders were recently recognized by the Association of California Nurse Leaders. Julie Vaupel-Phillips was honored for best practices in recruitment, retention and outreach and Jan Kidwell was recognized for best practice in innovation. These two nurse leaders are shining examples of the nursing profession and CHOC Children’s is lucky to have them!
Add comment February 17th, 2009
Another BIG honor for CHOC Children’s – we were recently recognized with a Silver Level CAPE Award from the California Council for Excellence. CHOC Children’s is the only children’s hospital in the state to ever earn this distinction. What a honor!
The CAPE Award is the highest recognition in the state for performance excellence and honors organizations that demonstrate continuous improvement and superior performance in the areas of leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, measurement/knowledge management, human resources, process management and business results.
This recognition is a reflection of CHOC’s clinical excellence and of the hospital’s organizational-wide commitment to the highest standards of patient safety and quality of care. Our patients deserve nothing less, right??
Add comment January 26th, 2009
The other day I witnessed my dear friend Dr. Gary Goodman hard at work in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) on our Mission Viejo campus (CHOC Children’s at Mission Hospital), where he is the Medical Director of the PICU. His team takes care of the most critically ill and injured kids – an incredible responsibility. Seeing Dr. Goodman in action, delivering high-quality, family-centered care reminded me of his recent honor of being named a 2008 Hospital Hero by the Hospital Association of Southern California.
In addition to his work inside the hospital, Dr. Goodman lends his expertise, time and voice to education and prevention efforts in Orange County and beyond. He contributed to the development of CHOC’s drowning prevention video “Three Tragic Seconds – Time to Make a Difference” and was a speaker at the 2008 National Drowning Prevention Symposium. In the area of traumatic brain injury, Dr. Goodman is the only pediatric representative on a multidisciplinary team that developed a comprehensive traumatic brain injury protocol, which has dramatically reduced morbidity and mortality from traumatic brain injury in children. On a national level, he is the only pediatric subspecialist participating in the Adam Williams Traumatic Brain Injury Initiative, which trains hospitals all over the country to improve treatment for traumatic brain injuries.
Now you can see why he is a 2008 Hospital Hero. (He’s always been one of mine.)
Add comment January 15th, 2009
Here’s another exciting first for CHOC and just one more example of the hospital’s commitment to patient safety and excellence: We recently became the first in the world to prepare patient doses using RIVA (robotic intravenous automation), a self-contained robotic unit for filling IV syringes and bags. This is one cool robot that helps reduce medication errors and allows our very talented pharmacists to spend even more time in clinical practice — also benefiting our young patients! Check out the photo of me with RIVA!
Add comment January 7th, 2009
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