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Around the campus.
Advanced medical care, close to home.
The historic affiliation of Huntington Hospital with Cedars-Sinai in 2020 represented a new chapter in medical care for Pasadena and the surrounding community, offering the best of both institutions to the people of the San Gabriel Valley and securing the future of local care for generations to come.
We are now expanding our campus to include a state-of-the-art medical pavilion, which will be the realization of this vision. It will serve as the first brick-and-mortar home for new and expanded clinical programs that combine the power of our compassionate, individualized approach to care with the breadth and depth of Cedars-Sinai’s award-winning expertise. The medical pavilion, which will be located on Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, will be our first new building in more than 20 years.
Patients will no longer need to travel hours across Los Angeles for specialty consultations or treatment. The new facility will bring world-renowned cancer specialists, as well as expert cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgeons under one roof, enabling our patients to access best-in-class medical care while remaining close to home. It will also include an expanded infusion center to enable us to meet the needs of even more patients — right here in the San Gabriel Valley.
We look forward to providing additional updates as this work proceeds.
Equipping nurse leaders.
Nurse leaders at Huntington Hospital have a new opportunity to participate in a year-long program through the New and Emerging Nurse Leader Academy. Based on the American Organization of Nurse Leaders (AONL) nurse leadership curriculum, this immersive, evidence-based program will equip our nurse supervisors and managers with essential skills, effective communication techniques and strategic decision-making mastery to meet the current and future demands of health care.
The first Academy cohort includes our newest nurse managers and supervisors and will run until February 2025. Academy students will be prepared to take and pass the highly sought-after Certified Nurse Manager and Leader (CNML) certification.
High honors for quality.
Community support helps us continue to deliver a higher caliber of care to thousands of patients in our region every year. This top-level care has received national recognition. Recently, Huntington Hospital was named by U.S. News & World Report as a 20242025 Best Hospital, ranking number 10 in California* and number five in Los Angeles*. *Two-way tie.
We also received national recognition in gastroenterology and GI surgery (#42) and earned ‘high performing’ designations in seven adult specialties, including cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, geriatrics, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.
In addition, Huntington Health was named ‘high performing’ in sixteen procedures and conditions, including spinal fusion, heart failure, colon cancer surgery, COPD, diabetes, gynecological cancer, heart attack, hip replacement, hip fracture, kidney failure, knee replacement, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
Introducing our new chief nurse officer.
Huntington Health recently welcomed Jinhee Jeannie Nguyen, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, as our new chief nurse officer. Jinhee began her career in health care more than three decades ago as a staff nurse in the emergency and trauma center of Los Angeles General Medical Center, and from there went on to work as a clinical nurse specialist in the emergency department at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center. She comes to us with extensive experience at Adventist Health Glendale Medical Center, where she advanced professionally over the last 20 years across roles in nursing and quality leadership.
“Jinhee’s passion for educational and leadership development has made her an ideal fit for this crucial role,” says Lori J. Morgan, MD, MBA, president and CEO. “We are excited to welcome Jinhee to our executive leadership team and look forward to her playing a key role in driving excellence in nursing practice and patient care.”
