Category: Press Release

San Diego Union-Tribune: San Diego, Orange County children’s hospitals complete merger

January 8, 2025

Rady Children's Hospital San Diego executives pose with the new CHOCO The Bear mascot.

On Tuesday, just before noon, executives from Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and Children’s Hospital of Orange County jointly announced the completion of a merger that has been more than a year in the making. They also unveiled a new logo to memorialize Rady Children’s Health, the new name of the combined organization covering a Southern California region that is home to more than 6 million people, 1.3 million of them children.

Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) and Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Announce Closing of Merger  

January 8, 2025

Rady Children's Health logo

San Diego Union-Tribune Opinion: Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, saving lives for seven decades

December 23, 2024

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego President and CEO Patrick Frias is pictured with Roxanne Ewalt removing a brick from the original 1954 Rady building that was about to be demolished.

The front page of the Aug. 22, 1954, edition of the San Diego Union marked a notable milestone. Under the banner headline “Children of SD Get New Hospital,” the article began, “The first patients have been moved into the Children’s Hospital. Thus the first general children’s hospital in San Diego history has gone into operation.”

Becker’s Hospital Review: CEO tenures at the 30 largest children’s hospitals

October 22, 2024

At CHOC’s helm since 1997, CHOC President and CEO Kimberly Chavalas Cripe has the longest tenure among her peers.