St. Joseph Hospital is the top rated hospital in Orange County, with excellent physicians on staff, a first-rate emergency room, and excellent nurses who are caring and compassionate. Top care for heart attack or stroke victims has saved countless lives, with fine cardiac care and facilities, top staff including angioplasty and bypass surgeons and state-of-the art operating rooms with best equipment. Pulmonary care is excellent too. Also transplant teams for many different organs.Maternity care is also excellent, and next door CHOC provides top-of-the-line care for infants who may be in distress, with a fine collegial relationship between the two hospitals. Nearby Ronald McDonald House provides space for out-of-town families. And St. Joseph's own facilities continue to expand with the best available. At this fine hospital, the lives of three different members of our immediate family have been saved. This is the finest any community could ask!