Helpful Information about COVID-19 updates, policies, and options
The safety of everyone who walks through our door is the highest priority for Hoag. To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and consistent with recent California Public Health Orders, Hoag has adopted a policy that all employees must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 unless a medical or religious exemption has been granted.
Unfortunately, the misconception that networking is only necessary when you need something (a new job, client, etc.), is completely wrong.
Networking is about relationships and is imperative for success, both personally and professionally. This is even more true for health care workers as the industry, and patient needs, continue to evolve at lightning speed.
Here are three reasons why breaking out of your comfort zone and networking is an absolute must.
It’s good for your career. Connecting with other smart and influential people, makes you smarter and more influential. Simply put, knowledge is power, and sharing information, whether it’s clinical, administrative, or otherwise, can help you build a better career. Disruptive technologies, the opioid crisis and changes to the ACA, and a critical shortage of primary care physicians are all reasons to stay ahead of the information curve and get more involved. Doing so also creates a synergy that can be felt across an entire organization.
It’s good for the organization. Synergy is the “stuff” of highly successful, agile teams, and a term used a lot in military special operations circles these days – which can be surprising when you consider how large, bureaucratic, and hierarchal the military is. The same can be said of most hospitals, where authority comes from the top down, and departments behave more like a small tribe, rather than part of a synchronized organization acting as one. That all changes when employees are actively networking and collaborating with each other. Disconnected silos become small world networks with lots of “links”, and places where employees can unite around a shared purpose like patient satisfaction. When done right, organizations with a culture that encourages networking, are able to more effectively adapt to changes in the marketplace, in real-time.
It’s good for your health. If you’re in your mid-20’s then this may not be as much a concern to you right now, but there’s a ton of research that shows social circles actually contract as we get older, and that our social relationships have lasting effects on our health. Having deep and meaning connections impact us behaviorally, psychosocially, and physiologically. A 20 year Dutch study showed that respondents aged 54 to 85, with rich networks of social relationships, experienced reduced social isolation and a reduction in mortality risk. The jury is still out, but research on size and multiplicity, suggest a greater health benefit can be had with personal networks that are large, and have a lot of overlap (work friends, who are friend friends, and also neighbors for instance). Social media doesn’t count, so get out there and meet some people!
Thanks for stopping by. I’d love to hear about your experiences with networking in the comments below. Be sure to also follow me on Twitter and Facebook for more good stuff.
About Hoag
Hoag Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in Orange County in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021-2022 best hospital rankings. Since 1952, Hoag has served the local communities and continues its mission to provide the highest quality health care services through the core strategies of quality and service, people, physician partnerships, strategic growth, financial stewardship, community benefit and philanthropy.
Hoag is a nonprofit regional health care delivery network in Orange County, California, consisting of two acute-care hospitals, 13 urgent care centers, nine health centers and a network of more than 1,700 physicians, 100 allied health members, 7,000 employees and 2,000 volunteers. More than 30,000 inpatients and 450,000 outpatients choose Hoag each year.
Hoag Websites and Applications Privacy Policy
Last Updated: January 3, 2024
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") describes how Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian ("Hoag MHP"), including its subsidiaries and affiliates such as Hoag Medical Group, (collectively, "Hoag", "we", "us", "our") collects, uses, and discloses personal information that Hoag collects through websites it maintains with a link to this Privacy Policy, including website domains and subdomains such as hoag.org, careers.hoag.org, jobs.hoag.org, hoaghospitalfoundation.org, hoaghealth.org, hoagmedicalgroup.com, hoagurgentcare.com, hoagconciergemedicine.com, hoagprime.com, hoagfunctionalmedicine.com and hoagexecutivehealth.com (collectively, the "Sites"), as well as any mobile applications offered by Hoag, including, Hoag Compass and Nona (collectively, our "App(s)").
This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information collected through other online services, including website subdomains, that Hoag maintains, but does not post a link to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not govern our collection, use, or disclosure of protected health information or our privacy practices related to any patient portals available or accessible through the Sites, or while logged in and using our Apps; both of which are subject to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and are separately addressed in Hoag's Notice of Privacy Practices.
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time, as reflected by the "Last Updated" date. If we make any material changes, we may provide additional notice.
Collection of Personal Information
We, and our vendors, may collect personal information through the Sites, such as when you submit information through webforms, including name, phone number, email address, type of insurance, employer and a description of your inquiry. If you apply for a job or fellowship, we may also collect professional, educational, or employment‐related information, including resume, certifications, eligibility documentation, and demographic information. In addition, the Sites may include interactive features, for example a customer service chat function. When you participate in an interactive customer service chat, either with a virtual or live agent, the contents of the chat may be captured and kept as a transcript. By submitting personal information through interactive features, you understand that our vendors may process the information obtained through the feature to provide services on our behalf.
Tracking Technologies
In addition to the personal information that you provide to us, we, and our vendors, may use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and pixels on certain webpages of the Sites.
Tracking technologies collect information such as IP addresses, device ID, pages visited, approximate geographic location, content interacted with, time of visit, clicks, movement, scrolling, keystroke activity, and browser information.
We, and our vendors, use tracking technologies and the information they collect for various purposes, such as to provide functionality of the Sites or of interactive features on the Sites, conduct analytics on Sites visitors to improve the Sites, improve the performance of the Sites, and targeted marketing. Certain tracking technologies may collect information about your online activities over time and across different devices and websites, and we may combine such information with other information about you, including data obtained from external parties.
For more information on certain tracking technologies that may be enabled on the Sites, refer to the following:
For more information about Google Analytics, visit: google.com/policies/privacy/partners. To opt out of Google Analytics cookies, visit: google.com/settings/ads and tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Certain advertising networks offer you a way to opt out certain kinds of targeted online advertising, which is conducted on certain webpages. If you would like to find out more information, visit aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.com
We are not responsible for any privacy practices of external parties, including tracking technology opt-out tools, signals, or mechanisms provided by external parties.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
We, and our vendors, may disclose personal information, including at your direction, to our affiliates, subsidiaries, business partners, and vendors.
We, and our vendors, may use or disclose personal information obtained through the Sites, including for the following purposes:
Communicate with and market to you. To respond to your inquiries, including requests for technical support, donation, or service information, including through email, phone call or customer service chat features available on the Sites. To communicate with you such as for participation in surveys, send our newsletters, and send you information on products and services we think may interest you.
Process Job or Fellowship Applications. If you submit a job or fellowship application, to assess eligibility, conduct interviews, and generally process professional applications.
Maintain, improve, and protect the Sites. For security purposes, such as to protect against unauthorized disclosure of personal information, as well as detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
Legal and Safety. To meet our legal obligations, such as court orders; to cooperate with law enforcement; to protect and defend our rights and property, or the rights or safety of third parties; to enforce our applicable terms, this Privacy Policy, or agreements with external parties.
Business Transactions. As part of a business transaction such as in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including a reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation) and as part of negotiations of such transactions.
We reserve the right to convert, or permit others to convert, your personal information into deidentified, anonymized, or aggregated data, as permitted by law.
Your Choices
If you have a registered account on the Sites, such as a careers account that enables you to apply for jobs at Hoag, you may be able to update your personal information and preferences through your account settings.
You may also opt out of receiving promotional e-mails from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail. Please note that unsubscribing from promotional e-mails will not affect subsequent subscriptions or non-promotional communications from us, such as such as administrative and service announcements.
Links to Other Websites
The Sites may include hyperlinks to other websites, platforms, or services. Such linked online services may be operated by external parties that are not owned by, controlled by, or affiliated with Hoag. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of online services that we do not maintain or control.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures to help protect personal information collected through the Sites from loss, theft, misuse, and other unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Sites.
California "Shine the Light"
California residents may request a list of external parties to whom we have disclosed certain types of personal information, during the preceding calendar year for the external parties' direct marketing purposes. To submit a request for this information, please write us at feedback@hoag.org or One Hoag Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92658-6100. Requests must include “California Shine the Light Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description, and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the provided email address or mailing address.
Contact Us
You may contact us through the methods indicated on our Contact Us page.
EEO Employer
Hoag Hospital is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. We do not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national
origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.
Hoag Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in Orange County in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021-2022 best hospital rankings. Since 1952, Hoag has served the local communities and continues its mission to provide the highest quality health care services through the core strategies of quality and service, people, physician partnerships, strategic growth, financial stewardship, community benefit and philanthropy.
