In 2008, local philanthropist Diana Sun’s mother had surgery to remove a brain tumor, but it didn’t work. She soon was rushed to Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, where she had a second brain surgery and spent three-plus weeks recovering.
The Suns thought enough of their experience with Hoag that today, 15 years later, they are donating $15 million toward what will be known as the Sun Family Campus at Hoag Hospital.
But, this time, the Hoag they’re helping to build is in Irvine.
The Suns’ gift is part of the hospital’s $1 billion Irvine expansion, which is slated to open in 2025 and include six buildings, 155 patient beds, eight operating rooms, two procedure rooms and 120,000 square feet of new facilities.
“David and Diana’s investment in Hoag is really driven by their desire to ensure that this level of care remains available to even more residents in Orange County,” said Joanna Kong, executive director of the Sun Family Foundation and David and Diana Sun’s niece.
And Hoag is hardly the only hospital building in the Irvine.
Over the next three to five years, a half-dozen health brands will either expand or break ground in Irvine, creating several million square feet of new hospital and health education space, 350 new care beds, and thousands of high-paying new jobs.
Hoag, City of Hope, UC Irvine, Kaiser Permanente, the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, Memorialcare, BeWell OC — the health entities involved in this health building spree are already known for cancer research, medical training, non-traditional medicine and mental health care. When the expansions and grand openings are done, probably by about 2030 or so, Irvine figures to be known as of the more health-focused communities in the country.
Given the booming healthcare expansions as well as the city’s historic health and biotech presence, Irvine is on track to becoming a national brand in healthcare — a hub of sorts, where all slices of health are…
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