When the sprawling City of Hope and UCI Health hospitals open in Irvine within days of each other early next month, it will be with approximately 1,800 new staff.

And Hoag is already hiring hundreds of additional employees to man an expansion of its Irvine campus with three new health institutes next year.

Already, the region has “been feeling the impact of these investments,” Orange County Business Council President and CEO Jeffrey Ball said of the boom of jobs related to so much development and construction happening at one time. “Now, we’re moving into the more permanent clinical and administrative positions.

“Many regions would give anything to have that in their area.” • Inside the Evaluation and Treatment Center at the new City of Hope Orange County cancer specialty hospital in

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