Hoag Hospital gets $5-million donation

June Casagrande

WEST NEWPORT -- Hoag Hospital has received one of the largest gifts in

its history -- a $5-million grant from the A. Gary Anderson Family

Foundation to help build the Hoag Women’s Pavilion.

“I think community support of this nature really helps transform what

I would consider a really good health-care institution to one that’s at a

new level of excellence,” said Ron Guziak, senior vice president and

executive director of the Hoag Hospital Foundation. “So the gift from the

Gary Anderson Foundation is an endorsement of Hoag as a center of

distinction.”

The Anderson Foundation has been a longtime supporter of the hospital.

The gift, announced Thursday, brings the hospital foundation to the

$48-million mark in its goal of raising $50 million for the Women’s

Pavilion, the largest expansion in the hospital’s history.

Hoag Hospital’s Women’s Pavilion -- a 309,000-square-foot facility

specializing in women’s health services -- is scheduled to open in 2005.

The new building will be seven stories high and provide services for men,

women and children in Orange County.

The Women’s Pavilion is designed to offer comprehensive services in a

single facility to maximize health benefits.

Birthing facilities will include 18 labor and delivery suites. Three

new operating rooms will be dedicated solely to caesarean sections. There

will also be a seven-bed antepartum unit for women before they give

birth.

The postpartum unit will have 42 private rooms designed to accommodate

mother, father and baby. There will be a 21-bassinet neonatal intensive

care unit.

In addition to maternity services, the pavilion also will provide

general women’s medical services. The Hoag Breast Care and Imaging center

will offer mammograms and biopsies. An osteoporosis clinic, and

peri-menopausal clinic and a continence center will also be included.

As a result of the gift, the fifth floor of the pavilion will be named

in recognition of A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation. A. Gary Anderson

was an entrepreneur, a philanthropist and a resident of Orange County who

died in 1992.

“This gift is the kind of thing the entire community can be grateful

for because it’s going to impact the health of the entire community,”

Guziak said.

* June Casagrande covers Newport Beach. She may be reached at (949)

574-4232 or by e-mail at o7 [email protected] .