Gifts at Work

Hoag has a long and robust partnership with the private community. In fact, it’s because members of the community have invested in Hoag that it has grown into a trusted, nationally recognized healthcare leader.  Countless patients and their families, physicians, nurses and staff have been touched by the kindness of our donors.  Philanthropy has helped Hoag create programs, recruit staff, acquire technology and open or upgrade facilities - all things that would not have been possible without the generosity of our community.

Below are highlights of a few recent examples of donor-supported initiatives at Hoag Women’s Health Institute:

Sue & Bill Gross Women’s Pavilion

The Sue & Bill Gross Women’s Pavilion is a premier community resource designed especially to meet women’s healthcare needs. The first floor is a gateway to the hospitality center featuring a cafe, a gift shop, an outdoor garden, a large health resource center for patient education and information and the beautiful Maseeh Chapel to support the spiritual needs of Hoag guests.

Over the coming months, the third floor of the Pavilion will transition to become a dedicated Neurosciences Care Unit. Already the home of the nationally recognized Hoag Stroke Program, soon, patients will receive coordinated specialized care for all in-patient neurological conditions.

Also in transition is the fourth floor of the Gross Women’s Pavilion. Plans are underway to expand the Antepartum Unit to provide more women with the care they may need prior to delivery.

Floors five through seven, maternity services, are the heart of the Women's Pavilion and contain 18 state-of-the-art labor, delivery and recovery suites; three operating rooms for Caesarean sections; and a seven-bed antepartum unit for women with pre-delivery risk.

Floor six expands Hoag's comprehensive maternity services with a 21-bassinet neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and expanded areas for fetal diagnostics and neonatology services. This unit also features a range of new accommodations for parents of NICU babies, including dedicated postpartum rooms near the NICU, kitchen facilities and window views into the NICU.

The seventh floor boasts 42 private rooms, ideal for new families. These rooms foster a family-centered environment and feature plenty of space for mother, father and baby to bond during those first few days together.

Donated Breast Pillows Provide Cancer Survivors with Physical and Emotional Comfort

Unless you’ve had breast cancer surgery you may not know that something as simple as a small pillow to protect your surgery site while conducting daily activities such as driving, provides enormous comfort for several weeks post- surgery. Two local women have taken it upon themselves to hand make breast pillows at their own expense and donate them as a gift to Hoag post-surgery breast cancer patients. For these patients, the comfort goes much deeper than physical - patients are very touched by and appreciative of the time and care that these donors have taken to give them something that’s comforting as well as useful. The fact that someone has anticipated their need and provided for it with such kindness means a great deal to them.