(ORANGE, Calif., July 12, 2019) – CHOC Children’s has tapped a seasoned healthcare leader to further increase performance excellence across the pediatric healthcare system. In her role as executive director of performance excellence, Sharon Nielsen Wilson will find ways to improve and enhance how CHOC patients and families are served across the organization at all […]
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CHOC Children’s Hospital honored with resuscitation recognition award
(ORANGE, Calif., June 21, 2019) – CHOC Children’s Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation Silver Plus Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer cardiac arrests in the hospital. More than 200,000 adults and children have an in-hospital cardiac arrest each […]
Grammy-Award Nominated OneRepublic Joined Orange County Community in Supporting CHOC Children’s at Gala’s 10th Anniversary
Anaheim, Calif. (Feb.12, 2018) – Hundreds of community and business leaders, as well as philanthropists rallied together at the CHOC Children’s Gala to raise $2.7 million for Orange County’s only pediatric healthcare system, CHOC Children’s. Held on Feb. 3, at the Disneyland Resort, the gala featured exquisite food, heartwarming stories and entertainment provided by OneRepublic. […]
CHOC CEO and CFO Named to National “Leaders to Know” List
CHOC President and CEO Kimberly Chavalas Cripe and Senior Vice President and CFO Kerri Ruppert Schiller are among an esteemed group of healthcare executives recognized in Becker’s Hospital Review’s “130 Women Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know” list for 2014. Individuals included on the list lead some of the largest and most prominent hospitals […]
State Recognizes CHOC Children’s Early Developmental Assessment Center for Quality Care
July 28, 2015 –The California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, dedicated to improving the quality of neonatal care in the state, has recognized the CHOC Children’s Early Developmental Assessment Center (EDAC) for exceeding recommended rates for high risk follow-up care. CHOC’s EDAC was one of only 12 centers, out of 71 in the state, to earn […]
Melanie Patterson Named CHOC’s VP Patient Care Services, Chief Nursing Officer
(ORANGE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2014) – A nursing veteran has been named CHOC Children’s vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer of the health system’s Orange campus. Melanie Patterson began her 21-year CHOC tenure in its new graduate program and continued to serve in various capacities through the years: bedside nurse, charge […]
