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About CHOC

2026 CHOC Walk

October 01, 2025

a new path toward caring for kids

 


In 2025, CHOC and Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego merged to become Rady Children’s Health, uniting pediatric care across all locations, programs, and services to serve more families than ever before. Now known as Rady Children’s Health Orange County, formerly CHOC, our new name honors the enduring generosity of Ernest and Evelyn Rady. With Choco Bear at the heart of our identity—same bear, same people, new name—we share a unified mission: we’re here for the kids, advancing hope, health, and healing. To learn more about the merger, click here.

Your support of the CHOC Walk continues to benefit the same programs, services, caregivers, and communities as before, reaching children across our region and carrying forward a legacy of compassionate care.

When you sign up to fundraise for the CHOC Walk, you’re walking a path that brings joy to the kids in our care and hope to families striving for a happier, healthier future. 

The CHOC Walk is a three-decade-strong fundraising movement that brings in over $2 million each year to support patients and families at Rady Children’s, with $49 million raised since its inception. These gifts have an immediate impact, strengthening our ability to transform pediatric healthcare today and for generations to come.

Rady Children’s is a nonprofit healthcare system dedicated to providing pioneering, compassionate, and customized care for infants, children, adolescents, teens, and young adults. CHOC Walk and other community philanthropy efforts are critical to advancing our mission and ensuring every family who needs us receives exceptional care.
 

Your Dollars At Work

Each year, a quarter million children across four counties are treated at Rady Children’s Health Orange County, formerly CHOC. We provide more than $155 million in total community benefits, such as resources and information, disease and injury prevention, and behavioral health services. 
 
Of that, more than $135 million—over 85%—is uncompensated care that ensures every child across our region receives the services they need, regardless of their family’s ability to pay.
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WellSpaces Initiative

  • Operating nearly 70 WellSpaces in schools across 17 Orange County Districts, each equipped with a library of wellness activities, coping treaments tailored to students' needs and more.
  • Gathered data from 3,400 student check-ins across all Orange County, indicating strong student engagement, growing demand and positive reception of the initiative.
  • Completed our first elementary, campus-wide WellSpace installation at Arovista Elementary School, establishing a foundational model for early learners.
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Child Life

  • Welcomed two additional resident dogs—Wise at our Orange hospital and Haines at our Mission hospital— bringing calm, comfort, and joy to our patients and families.
  • Served over 54,000 patients through our child life teams, therapies, and services—an 8% increase from the previous year.
  • Distributed 600 coping kits in our Cherese Mari Laulhere Mental Health Inpatient Center, including art supplies, journals, and other stress-reducing tools.
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Clinical Expansion

  • Opened the nine-story Southwest Tower in June 2025. Complete with more than 25 specialty outpatient
    clinics, individually themed floors, and a range of family amenities.
  • Established a pediatric-only urgent care facility in Irvine, providing families with vital, acute urgent care closer to home.
  • Started construction for the Small Baby Unit renovation to create a modern, enhanced space designed to improve outcomes for our tiniest patients. Construction is expected to be completed in summer 2026.


More Information

 
CHOC Foundation Overview
 2025 annual Report
 RADY / CHOC MERGER
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