An expansion of facilities for the treatment of substance abuse announced this week by officials at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach is partly thanks to a charitable donation of $25 million and comes against the backdrop of skyrocketing rates of overdose deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades.
The donation came from the Martin and Pickup families and will cover about half the cost to build the hospital’s planned Caremar Recovery Center. The new building will allow Hoag to increase its spots for inpatient addiction treatment from 21 to 28, and will raise its capacity for outpatient care to around 60 or 70 people, according to Michael Brant-Zawadzki, Hoag’s vice president of Clinical Research Administration and Kambria Hittelman, executive director of Hoag Addiction Treatment Centers.