CHOC Receives Largest Gift In Its History
Sometimes there’s a compelling and profound sense of humility in the quiet advocate for children. CHOC Children’s came to understand this when it received a $30 million estate gift– the largest gift in the hospital’s history– from a private, compassionate, philanthropist whose ideals matched CHOC’s mission...
CHOC Children’s Patient–Care Tower on Target to Open Spring 2013
Construction of CHOC Children’s new seven–story hospital tower, designed to provide a flexible platform to serve this region now and into the future, stands more than 70 percent complete. The state–of–the–art facility enables CHOC to take its place among our nation’s premier children’s hospitals...
Building the Tower from the Inside Out
CHOC Children's new patient-care tower strikes an impressive form with its massive footprint and wonderfully playful color scheme. The physical presence of the building, however, is only half the story. The building will spring to life by what gets put into it. According to Debra Mathias, CHOC’s excecutive vice president...
Hyundai Gives $10 Million to Drive Customized Cancer Research
When two major advocates for children unite to push forward a cause, great things can happen. This is precisely what occurred when CHOC Children’s received a $10 million gift from Hyundai Motor America and its nonprofit arm, Hope on Wheels, to fund leading-edge pediatric cancer research that utilizes...
Illness Brings Together Two Strong Voices in Support of CHOC
"CHOC is a community of good people, and they're open to anyone and everyone. The first–class treatment here is amazing. Everyone is nice and very helpful," says Tommaso "Tommy" Conforti, CHOC Children’s first Campaign Child Ambassador. But while the extroverted thirteen–year–old seventh grader may sound like...
Top Doctors Come to CHOC to Do Revolutionary Work
Experts on children’s hospitals undertand a simple truth: The addition of a single subspecialty physician can make all the difference in the lives of sick children by filling critical gaps in a hospital’s capabilities. Due to the shortage of subspecialty doctors, and the low number of pediatric specialits graduating each year...
People Make Greatness Happen
Dr. Mustafa Kabeer, a pediatric surgeon at CHOC Children’s, works eighty to eighty–five hours per week and performs nearly 600 operations per year; Dr. Michael Muhonen, CHOC’s director of Neurosurgery, rarely has a week that doesn’t include multiple emergency brain surgeries. Dr. Antoine Khoury, chief of...
Thank you to those who have boldly said, "I am for children!"
CHOC Children’s Foundation thanks these individuals and organizations for their generosity in supporting quality pediatric care in our community...
