Mission Hospital Foundation

Advanced technologies will enable us to transform the status quo in cancer care, leading patients to more personalized and accurate treatment plans, while enabling physicians to do their jobs more effectively. Robotic surgical technology has also advanced rapidly allowing surgeons to operate on tumors in early stages or tumors in close proximity to sensitive organs without damaging healthy tissue.Essential members of our multi-disciplinary care team, nurse navigators partner with our patients to guide them throughout their treatment. Our dedicated nurse navigators work to ensure care is coordinated among each member of the cancer care team and they serve as reassuring advocates for patients.  By forming alliances with leading cancer institutions across the country we will bring the best in academic medicine and clinical trials to our south Orange County community. These invaluable partnerships will unveil new innovative treatment options and provide our patients with the best possible outcomes. By giving patients access to a broad range of proven therapies, we provide them more control over their own destinies. Our programs incorporate body, mind and spirit care, including integrative medicine and natural treatments such as acupuncture, massage and yoga that reduce stress and anxiety and improve overall well-being. It is essential for patients to try to consume a healthy diet and to drink nourishing beverages. Since sometimes that is easier said than done, we have a team of registered dieticians available to work one-on-tone with patients and families to develop nutrition goals and a plan to achieve them. 

To save lives through timely patient-centered, state-of-the-art interventions via multi-disciplinary collaboration and improve the health and well-being of those traumatically injured through clinical excellence, innovation, prevention, education, and outreach.

We strive to be the premier Neuroscience Institute by continually seeking innovation and technological advances to provide affordable and accessible services to the communities we serve and beyond. Our institute will be recognized as the destination hospital for outstanding, high value clinical care.

Our accrued understanding of the genetics and genomics of mental disorders has opened up new exciting perspectives in the domain of what is commonly referred to as precision or personalized medicine. The current practice in choosing medications to treat mental disorders is primarily by trial and error, and is not based on an individual’s biological and genetic characteristics. To improve such a poor “trial and error” practice, we can easily implement a gene-based, algorithm-guided test to aid in medication choice, as well as in profiling our patients to predict their response to a given treatment or to prevent developing unwanted side-effects from the not optimal medication.

This path-breaking innovation is also highly supported by the State of California that has launched the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, which is supporting initial demonstration projects related to cancer, cardiovascular events, Multiple Sclerosis and Infectious Disorders.

In our Clinical Institute for Mental Health and Wellness, we can expand a precision medicine approach to improve the treatment of our patients and promote mental health in the community.