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Sun Family Donates $50M More to Hoag

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian’s $1.2 billion expansion in Irvine received another major funding boost from local philanthropists David and Diana Sun.

Their Sun Family Foundation has donated a second $50 million gift to Hoag to accelerate the ongoing construction of a six-building campus that will offer a host of services for women’s health, cancer and digestive health.

“It’s absolutely inspirational,” Caroline Pereira, president of Hoag Hospital Foundation, told the Business Journal.

“Their gift empowers Hoag to continue growing this beautiful campus and provide the most innovative and comprehensive healthcare for Orange County well into the future.”

The Boldly Hoag campaign, which was launched in 2022, aims to raise $300 million before the first phase of the project is expected to be completed in July 2026. The Suns’ latest gift brings the fundraising total to around $235 million, according to Pereira.

The Suns have been early supporters of the campaign.

Their original $50 million gift made in 2021 kickstarted the expansion, naming the entire project the Sun Family Campus, and has inspired many others to donate, Pereira said.
“There’s a Chinese saying that talks about how individual grains of sand can be gathered to form a tower,” Diana Sun said in a statement.

“Our gift is what we can give. Regardless of the amount, when many come together to give what they can, they can build something exceptional.”

The Sun Family Complex
With the new $50 million gift, Hoag is honoring the Sun family by naming its entire presence in Irvine the Sun Family Complex. This footprint includes the current hospital and Hoag Health Center across the street on Sand Canyon Avenue.

“Their gift is really helping us build this excellent healthcare enterprise here,” Pereira said.
Three of the buildings within the Sun Family Campus have been topped off so far.

The first of the three to take shape was the 100,000-square-foot surgical pavilion, which Hoag held a topping off ceremony for last July. Hoag will soon take the wraps off the surgical pavilion to hold tours inside of the building, according to Pereira.

Hoag has also made progress on the women’s hospital and cancer and digestive health hospital.

Pereira said that they’re currently working on what will be the front entrance to the campus that’s set to be in front of the labor delivery area, as well as the logistics building.

“Every day or every week I’m here, it feels like it’s grown in leaps and bounds,” Pereira said while looking out over the construction.

It’s only been seven months since Pereira was named president of Hoag Hospital Foundation, succeeding Flynn Andrizzi, but she said she has used the time to familiarize herself with board members, local philanthropists and physicians.

“I’ve gone on so many tours and really immersed myself on our various campuses, both in Irvine and Newport Beach, seeing firsthand how our team is working,” Pereira said.

Besides the Irvine expansion, Pereira said that Hoag’s also expanding throughout the rest of Orange County.

Coming this summer, Hoag is opening a 20,000-square-foot facility in San Clemente.
The Hoag Health Center San Clemente will offer primary care, urgent care, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic and sports medicine, and radiology and imaging services.

Hoag Compass, Hoag’s preventative wellness program, will also be offered at the new facility, along with more services to come.

Record Fundraising Year
Last year was a record fundraising year for Hoag, Pereira said.

Hoag Hospital Foundation, the fundraising arm of Hoag, raised a total of approximately $209.2 million.

Notable donations to Hoag during 2024 include a $25 million gift from the Martin and Pickup families to open the CareMar Recovery Center in Newport Beach.

The center, set to open in 2028, will focus on treating people suffering from substance abuse disorders.

Last April, Ben and Carmela Du donated $25 million to Hoag, establishing the Du Family Hospital Pavilion, which will serve as the front entrance to the Sun Family Campus.

Hoag also received a $15 million gift from Julia and George Argyros during its annual Nurse of the Year Celebration to support nursing services and continuing education for nurses at Hoag.

Pereira sees this as momentum from the pandemic, which she said brought up the importance of healthcare to philanthropists.

“The entire world was focused on what can we do around healthcare research, and I have seen that continue in every year since then,” Pereira said.

Early Supporters of Hoag

The Sun family has supported Hoag long before the hospital’s growth plans in Irvine.
They first became involved after Dian­­a’s mother had a positive experience at Hoag as a patient. She received care for a benign brain tumor at Hoag’s Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute and was discharged following a successful surgery and month-long stay.

“During those agonizing days, I experienced firsthand how Hoag, as a nationally renowned hospital, operates as a well-organized, efficient, friendly and advanced organization,” Diana said in a statement.

Since then, both the Sun Family Foundation and Kingston Technology Co., the computer memory products giant David co-founded with John Tu in 1987, has contributed significantly to Hoag in past years.

One of the Suns’ earlier donations to Hoag was a gift of more than $300,000 in 2015 for the expansion of the emergency department at Hoag Hospital Irvine.

Hoag officials named a high-acuity treatment room after them in honor of the gift.
In 2020, Kingston partnered with Hoag Classic, a golf tournament on the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tour Champions, to fund $70,000 in scholarships for employees to help offset the cost of tuition, materials and other expenses while pursuing a degree, diploma, license or certificate.

The program has reportedly funded more than 52 scholarships to date.

“With these scholarships, Hoag employees are advancing their education and elevating the level of care they provide to our community,” Pereira said.

Pereira said the Suns have also supported Hoag during “the most crucial times,” including the pandemic when the Kingston Technology Foundation gave $2 million to Hoag’s COVID-19 fund.

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Sonia Chung
Sonia Chung
Sonia Chung joined the Orange County Business Journal in 2021 as their Marketing Creative Director. In her role she creates all visual content as it relates to the marketing needs for the sales and events teams. Her responsibilities include the creation of marketing materials for six annual corporate events, weekly print advertisements, sales flyers in correspondence to the editorial calendar, social media graphics, PowerPoint presentation decks, e-blasts, and maintains the online presence for Orange County Business Journal’s corporate events.
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