Orange Coast Memorial Foundation’s 14th Annual Fall Gala Raises $280K

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. – The Orange Coast Memorial Foundation hosted more than 250 guests at its 14th annual Fall Gala, An Enchanted Evening, on Saturday, October 15th at the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach. Proceeds from the black tie event raised over $280,000 for the new Emergency Pavilion at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center (OCMMC).

Visits to OCMMC’s Emergency Department (ED) have grown by more than 26 percent in the past five years and its ED treats more than 35,000 people each year. Nationwide, emergency departments are closing at the rate of 25 percent in the last 20 years. To ensure it continues to provide advanced, life-saving care to those whose lives depend on it, OCMMC is embarking on a major expansion of its Emergency Department. The Emergency Pavilion will be twice the size of its current facility which will enable OCMMC to double its capacity, enhance patient privacy and ensure the prompt delivery of high quality medical care.

“We would like to thank our generous donors and sponsors for supporting this special event,” said Marcia Manker, CEO of Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center. “Proceeds from the event will help us to create a state-of-the-art Emergency Pavilion at Orange Coast Memorial and enhance our dedicated ER physicians and nurses’ ability to care for the critically ill and injured people in our community.”

The new Emergency Pavilion will provide OCMMC’s served communities with the following amenities:

• An additional 4,980 square feet of space, for a total of 11,400 square feet
• 27 treatment areas including 13 private treatment rooms, with one exclusively for children
• 5 “fast track” stations for rapid medical evaluations
• Bedside registration
• Separate entrances for ambulances and walk-in patients
• Enhanced space for physician consultations
• A chapel and healing garden
• A designated paramedic area

Event sponsors included: Resa Evans; The Boand Family Foundation; Edinger Medical Group; Greater Newport Physicians; Surgical Care Affiliates; MemorialCare Medical Group; Pediatrix; Tom Rogers & Sally Anderson; California Heart Associates; OCM Anesthesia; Farmers & Merchants Bank; CEP America; Southland Renal Medical Group; Orange County Cyberknife and Radiation Oncology Center; South Coast Radiological Medical Group; and Long Beach Memorial Pathology Medical Group.

For more information about Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center or to donate to the Orange Coast Memorial Foundation, please call (714) 378-7397 or visit www.MemorialCare.org/SupportOrangeCoast.