Hoag Physicians see the project of expansion of the campus as an opportunity – Orange County Register

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Hoag Physicians see the project of expansion of the campus as an opportunity – Orange County Register

The leaders of Hoag make a daring promise as they prepare to open the Sun family campus $ 1 billion from the hospital in Irvine next September: come to Hoag and you will not have to travel elsewhere for care.

Once it opens, Hoag’s expansion will include six new buildings, including a dedicated women’s hospital, a surgical pavilion and a digestive health and cancer institute. The campus will include 155 beds for hospitalized patients, 11 operating rooms, 24 works, delivery, recovery and postpartum suites, a 17-bed machining, robot surgery, a cult center, a wellness park-and the continuous list.

Hoag is not the only one to grow in Irvine. This year and next year, the main health players – including City of Hope and UC Irvine – should add millions of square feet from new hospital and health education space. At the end of the decade, Irvine could be one of the most healthy communities on the country.

Thus, while construction work continues on the Hoag Irvine campus, doctors leading three specialties that will have houses there, women’s health, digestive health and cancer care, have recently seated for a round table on what expansion will allow their health care teams to do and what will distinguish Hoag.

To start, Dr. Steven Grossman, head of the hospital cancer institute, said that a new emergency cancer care center will be there for cancer patients in Orange County.

“Display if you have cancer and you have a problem that needs attention at any time of the day, certainly in the middle of the night, weekends and holidays,” he said. “Our installation will be open to everyone, so it doesn’t matter who treats you.”

Patients with cancer are often faced with sudden medical problems at odd hours, and Grossman said that emergency rooms, including Hoag, “are simply not the most ideal environment for patients with immunocompromiscimited cancer”.

“It is certainly a differentiating throughout the county,” said Grossman about 24/7 Care Care Center.

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The newly redesigned front entry to Hoag Irvine Hospital is part of the expansion of the Sun family campus in Irvine on Wednesday, October 1, 2025. (Photo of Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register / SCNG)

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He added that expansion allows HOAG to provide more specialized care than most community hospitals. Rather than treating several types of cancer, Hoag will have doctors focusing exclusively on a single type of cancer, whether it is cancer of lung, stomach, breast or blood – offering experts in almost all cancer.

Dr. Allyson Brooks, a Hoag doctor since 1993, said that the Irvine hospital model is designed so that families can get several types of care without leaving the community. Patients can receive screening, imagery, consultations in the doctor, surgery and access to clinical trials-all on the same campus, she said.

Brooks, who heads the Hoag Women’s Health Institute, said that she is considering that the Sun family campus “will allow women to feel that we can take care of them in one place, she and her children, her spouse or her partner in life, her parents, so that the family does not need to leave the community where they live, where they work, where they have links and support.”

“I think the most important thing is that people will not need to leave the house, they will not need to leave Orange County. They will be able to come here, and they can arrive here from 405 or 5 or 133 or they will be able to fly as a destination at John Wayne airport, “she added. “So we see him as something for the whole family.”

Beyond the treatment, HOAG plans to extend preventive care, have underlined the doctors.

Dr. Kenneth Chang joined Hoag last summer of UC Irvine with the ambitious objective of launching the largest digestive health institute of the County Orange, transforming the community hospital into chief research and, ultimately, to eliminate cancer from esophagus and colon in the County of Orange.

And it starts with preventive care, focusing on the symptoms he calls “pre-cancerous” and “pre-prone”, such as obesity, diabetes and even stomach burns.

“Looking at (cancer), for example, a community point of view, obviously, a person moving in the door with various cancers, we will strive to provide all the treatments, the standard of care, clinical trials for a phase 1, 2, 3 cancer. But we dream more than that.

The idea is that the new weight and the metabolic center of Hoag offer the full spectrum of care in one place, behavioral support and mental health with intelligent food choices and meals preparation, as well as endoscopic and surgical procedures, so that when a patient enters, he receives care “without having to worry about the center of this person to exploit”, said Chang.

Preventive care can also be simpler, he said.

Chang said Hoag’s marketing team had created a free 20 -questions assessment that anyone can end online or via an application. The tool will assess the risk of a person to develop cancer and other conditions, then provide advice according to their level of risk.

The tool will be able to offer personalized recommendations, food and medication exercise, including what to eat, what not to eat and how to eat.

Chang said Hoag also adopts care for the ethnic composition of his surrounding community. He noted that liver and stomach cancers disproportionately affect the Asian population, unlike the higher cancers of the American population, which are the lung, the colon and the pancreatic.

“Our leadership is about to look at this and provide this kind of care, education, awareness, and once again, the same depth of care that you would see in high-level hospitals in Asia,” he said. “So our advanced liver program is hyper focused on liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) and how to detect it, how to detect it, how to treat it minimal, to surgery and so on.”

Grossman says that this kind of attention helped Hoag recruit the best doctors from across the country.

“People just want to come here,” he said, “that I speak to doctoral researchers, doctors, scientific doctors, advanced practice suppliers, there is something magnetic in this place.”