A $106 million donation to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian is the largest in the Newport Beach-based health provider’s history and will support its advanced research and “comprehensive, compassionate” patient care, officials told The Orange County Register.
The gift from the estate of Audrey Steele Burnand brings the total amount given by the family to Hoag Hospital to $134 million. The family’s support of the hospital dates back to the 1960s when it gave about $8 million to help with cancer and cardiology research and treatments.
“The Steele family’s decades of generosity, continued by the Audrey Steele Burnand estate, have benefited the Orange County community in immeasurable ways,” Flynn Andrizzi, president of the Hoag Hospital Foundation, said in a statement. Read more.
