Orange County’s most advanced cancer research and treatment.
09/25/2025
This Blood Cancer Awareness Month, we’re celebrating Chief of Staff, City of Hope, OC Gloria Preciado and her husband Arturo. 💙 Gloria leads with dedication to our mission, and Arturo matches that spirit as an avid donor—giving DOUBLE RED donations that provide two life-saving units in a single visit.
Red cells are critical for people with blood cancers, helping restore strength and sustain life. Together, Gloria and Arturo remind us that leadership and generosity can spark hope that reaches far beyond themselves.
Join them in making a difference—City of Hope’s Blood Mobile visits our Orange County cancer center on the second Thursday of every month.
Treatment can be difficult, and everyone finds something that helps them make it through. For grateful patient Ray Hartjen, it’s music. Whether he’s listening, composing, or playing, it has the power to take him to a place of peace even on the hardest days. For Ray music reminds him there is still beauty, still light, and still a reason to have hope. 💙
09/19/2025
Each day, our EVS team makes sure our environment is clean, safe and welcoming for everyone who walks through our doors. Their dedication means our patients and staff feel comforted, supported, and at ease.
Happy Environmental Services Week to this amazing team! Thank you for everything you do for our patients and staff.💙
09/18/2025
If opening our hospital is like running a marathon, these dedicated nursing professionals are setting the pace.💙 Meet Sarah Spaulding, Nicole Stieglemar, Diana Navarro and Stephanie Franks — the first nurse managers building inpatient nursing at our hospital as we prepare for day one.
09/17/2025
The finishing touches are coming together. With our Spirit of Life statue now in place, we’re moving closer to opening our doors. 💙
09/16/2025
Starr Schulte, 44, was determined to find cancer care that went beyond the standard. 💙
After her colon cancer diagnosis, she traveled from Arizona to City of Hope Orange County to meet with Pashtoon Kasi, M.D., medical director of GI Medical Oncology.
Guided by Dr. Kasi, Starr began a personalized treatment plan that included targeted therapy and advanced liver ablation surgeries — a course that changed the direction of her journey.
With the support of her husband, family, and her close-knit “Starr’s Squad,” she now looks forward with a new goal: “Let’s get to remission and stay there.”
Starr’s story is a powerful reminder that innovative therapies, cancer-focused expertise, and compassionate care open the door to hope and healing. 💙
A grateful patient wrote Lobby Ambassador Jacqueline Hernandez a heartfelt note, sharing how much her smile and warm greeting meant during a difficult time. Jacqueline now keeps that note tucked in her pocket, carrying it with her every day as inspiration. For her, it is a powerful reminder that our patients appreciate the way we care for them and that the smallest gestures — a smile, a kind word, a warm welcome — can have the big impact on someone’s journey. 💙
09/11/2025
This year marks a historic milestone — the opening of Orange County’s only cancer specialty hospital on our academic cancer campus in Irvine.
Our new hospital will redefine cancer care in our community, offering more expertise, more clinical trials and advanced surgical capabilities — all for the singular purpose of saving lives.
We're grateful for our faculty and staff who continue to bring hope to our patients every day. 💙
A new era in cancer care is dawning with the opening of Orange County’s only cancer specialty hospital this year. ☀️ 💙
09/04/2025
We celebrated the unveiling of the Spirit of Life statue, a powerful and enduring symbol of who we are at City of Hope and what we stand for.
The Spirit of Life celebrates family, vitality and the shared human journey through illness and healing. Now anchoring our academic cancer campus, it’s a reminder to have hope every step of the way.
Hope lives here, now and always, guiding our work as we care for the lives of those touched by cancer. 💙✨
09/02/2025
Looking back at last year’s Concert of Hope reminds us why this evening is so special. 💙🎶 More than a concert, it’s a tribute to the resilience and strength of cancer survivors and their families - presented in partnership with City of Hope Orange County.
This Saturday, Sept 6, we close out at Great Park Live with Tchaikovsky Spectacular: Concert of Hope. Experience the passion of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and the explosive 1812 Overture - complete with a fireworks finale. 🎆
Join us as music becomes a language of healing, unity, and hope. 💙 You don’t want to miss it! Get your tickets today: bit.ly/tchaikovsky-spectacular
08/29/2025
From breaking ground to opening our doors later this year — what began as a vision is becoming a promise fulfilled for the people of Orange County. Coming soon: Orange County’s only cancer specialty hospital. 💙
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The City of Hope story began in 1913, when a group of volunteers, spurred by compassion to help those afflicted with tuberculosis, established the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association (JCRA) and raised money to start a free, nonsectarian tuberculosis sanatorium.
After several fundraisers, the JCRA put a down payment on 10 acres of sun-soaked land in Duarte, where they would establish the Los Angeles Sanatorium a year later. The original sanatorium consisted of two canvas cottages. So was launched a century-long journey that would place City of Hope at the forefront of the nation’s leading medical and research institutions.
By the mid-1940s, thanks to the discovery of antibiotics, tuberculosis was on the decline in the U.S. However, City of Hope rose to the next medical challenge, tackling the catastrophic disease of cancer — and later on, diabetes and HIV/AIDS — while reaffirming its humanitarian vision that “health is a human right.”
In the spirit of that vision, Samuel H. Golter, one of City of Hope’s early leaders, coined the phrase, “There is no profit in curing the body if, in the process, we destroy the soul.” Those words became City of Hope’s credo.
Over the decades, research conducted at City of Hope has led to significant advances in modern medicine, including the development of the first synthetic human insulin, human growth hormone and the technology behind the widely used cancer-fighting drugs Herceptin, Rituxan and Avastin.
Today, City of Hope has been designated as a comprehensive cancer center, the highest recognition bestowed by the National Cancer Institute, and is a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, with research and treatment protocols that advance care throughout the nation.
As we look toward the next 100 years, we continue our mission and commitment to transform the future of medicine. Our researchers, physicians, nurses, educators and staff have made hope a reality for countless patients and their loved ones.
