A Message from Kim Cripe

In these changing and uncertain times, one thing remains constant at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC): our mission to nurture, advance and protect the health and wellbeing of children. Our patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do.

This has been a year of tremendous progress at CHOC. In response to the rapidly increasing needs of our pediatric population with the most complex diagnoses, we opened our new state-of-the-art, familycentered Pediatric Intensive Care and Cardiovascular Intensive Care units. Last spring, we opened a new 6,000-square-foot Outpatient Infusion Center—providing a dedicated center for pediatric patients to receive infusions and procedures without having to be admitted to the hospital.

In addition, we just completed the renovation and expansion of our Ambulatory Care Center, which houses our large Primary and Specialty Care Clinics on our Orange campus. This has been a critical project to help meet the demand for these important services. Last year alone, our primary and specialty care visits system-wide reached over 145,000.

Although years of planning and construction have resulted in enhanced patient care areas, allowing our clinicians to practice the most advanced medicine, this growth represents just the beginning of even more ambitious plans for the future.

I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere gratitude to our donors. You have played a vital role in our passionate pursuit to provide the safest, most advanced care for children—today, tomorrow and always.

Sincerely,

Kimberly Chavalas Cripe
President and Chief Executive Officer