Named for many years as one of the top workplaces by the Orange County Register and among the best of Orange County hospitals by the newspaper’s readers for 13 years, MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center continues to grow and expand to meet community needs. Its local, regional and statewide accomplishments among its clinical institutes include U.S. News & World Report listing it as high-performing in 15 procedures and conditions and as a best regional hospital for equitable access. The cardiology program received six consecutive high star ratings from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for excellence in coronary artery bypass grafting and multi-procedural cardiac surgery cases, making it the only hospital in Orange County to achieve this distinction. In addition, the movement disorders program has performed the most magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound procedures on the West Coast, and Orange Coast received the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative’s “Superstar Award” for medium birth volume hospitals. It has a longstanding legacy of physician partnership and academic-level clinical capabilities, while maintaining the community hospital feel evidenced by initiatives like “Healing Harmonies,” established by night nurses who volunteer their time after their shifts end to sing to patients who are critically ill.
