UC San Diego Health is the academic health system of the

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. It is the only academic health system serving

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and has one of only two adult

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s in the region. In operation since 1966, it comprises

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in Hillcrest as well as

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, Shiley Eye Institute, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, and Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion, all located in

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. It also includes several outpatient sites located throughout

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. The health system works closely with the university's

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and

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to provide training to medical and pharmacy students and advanced clinical care to patients. It is the official health system of the

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and

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Hospitals

UC San Diego Medical Center

The UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest () is the first of two primary hospitals for the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. The region's first academic medical center offers both primary care and specialized services, including surgery, diagnosis and management of genetic disease, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, and the Sleep Medicine Center. The 381-bed hospital at Hillcrest is home to the San Diego Regional Burn Center, San Diego County's only academic Level One Trauma Center, a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Poison Center, Hyperbaric Medicine Center, and the National Institutes of Health-designated Clinical Research Center. The Hillcrest campus also includes the Owen Clinic for HIV care to men, women and children.

Jacobs Medical Center

Jacobs Medical Center () opened on November 20, 2016. It is the second component of UC San Diego Health's two-campus strategy and provides specialized quaternary care not available elsewhere in San Diego County. The 364-bed advanced medical center is divided into four separate pavilions: Thornton Pavilion, Vassiliadis Pavilion (floors 2-3), Foster Pavilion (floors 4-6), and Rady Pavilion (floors 8-10). The A. Vassiliadis Family Pavilion for Advanced Surgery includes intraoperative

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machines and the only Restrictive Spectrum Imaging facility in the United States. The Pauline and Stanley Foster Pavilion for Cancer Care houses a blood and marrow transplant program jointly operated by UC San Diego Health and

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, the floor for which is completely pressurized and filtered allowing patients to roam freely. The Rady Pavilion for Women and Infants includes a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, eight labor rooms, 32 private postpartum rooms, and a three-room midwifery birth center. Each of the hospital's private rooms is equipped with an

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for controlling lighting, checking medical records, and contacting care providers. The facility is named for Joan and Irwin Jacobs in recognition of a $75 million gift they made to support its construction.

Thornton Pavilion

The John M. and Sally B. Thornton Pavilion and Perlman Medical Offices opened in the summer of 1993 as the standalone Thornton Hospital.

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, a neurosurgeon and then-

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of the School of Medicine, performed the first surgery at this hospital. It was a delicate brain operation. It is located on the

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campus in San Diego, California. It is a 119-bed general medical-surgical facility that offers a full range of services, including

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cardiology Cardiology () is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart d ...

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and

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. In 2016, the hospital was consolidated into the Jacobs Medical Center hospital complex.

Specialty centers

Moores Cancer Center

Established in 1979, the Rebecca and John Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center is the region's only

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-designated

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s in the United States. It provides outpatient care for more than 200 cancer types and is a regional center for cancer research and clinical trials of the most promising cancer therapies.

Shiley Eye Institute

UC San Diego Shiley Eye Institute provides comprehensive eye care services, from basic eye exams to advanced diagnostic tests and sophisticated surgery. Eye care services offered at Shiley Eye Institute include cataract surgery, cornea transplants, glaucoma diagnosis and treatment, low vision services, neuro-ophthalmology, optometry and contact lens service, pediatric ophthalmology, plastic surgery, refractive surgery, retina care, and trauma repair. It also houses the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Retina Center and Hamilton Glaucoma Center. The Abraham Ratner Children's Eye Center is immediately adjacent to the Shiley building.

Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center

The Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center provides ambulatory, clinical, and inpatient heart and stroke care in one central location. Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center is the region's first academic-based facility to combine all heart and vascular-related services, programs and technology under one roof. It is connected by footbridges to Jacobs Medical Center and the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, a 311,000 gross square feet, $269 million laboratory building. The emergency department for the La Jolla campus is housed in the Sulpizio building, with 22 outpatient beds and 54 acute care beds.

Research

UC San Diego is one of the most active health science research institutes in the country. Of the $1.2 billion it received in research funding in FY2018, $686 million was dedicated to health sciences research at UC San Diego Health medical centers and the School of Medicine. Several pioneering medical innovations have been made by UC San Diego researchers, such as the development of the chemotherapy drug

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, the use of

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in the treatment of congenital defects, the discovery of

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resistance as a cause of

diabetes Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ap ...

, the understanding of genetic blood disorders such as

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, the link between

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and certain cancers, the first human trials of robotically assisted

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, the development of the first oral drug for treating

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called Elmiron, the demonstration of

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latency, the link between the p53 gene and

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, the identification of the genetic basis for

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, the discovery of an early warning sign for

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, the connection between inflammation and cancer, the use of

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as a surgical and research aid, the nation's first

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, and the discovery of a potential treatment for chronic lymphomatic leukemia called Cirmtuzumab. The health system coordinates its activities closely with the

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as well as the university as a whole. In particular, clinical and

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are important for both entities to advance the quality of patient care. UC San Diego Health conducts several hundred clinical studies per year at its hospitals and clinics. In 2016, the university opened the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI) building, which brings together professors in

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chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

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, and

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to solve new and complex medical questions. The ACTRI also enables collaboration with the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the J. Craig Venter Institute, and

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. Its building is connected by a footbridge to Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center and the Jacobs Medical Center complex. In addition to this, UC San Diego Health Sciences (the body which oversees both the hospital and school of medicine) runs the following research centers:

Regional affiliations

UC San Diego Health shares doctors and care providers with two other hospital systems in the region. In 2015, it entered a long-term management agreement with

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, the county seat of

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. Under the terms of this agreement, ECRMC patients have access to specialized facilities operated by UC San Diego Health in the city. Doctors also have access to training and continuing medical education through UC San Diego School of Medicine, and UC administrators will continually monitor the operational needs of the remote medical center. UC San Diego Health participates in a similar program with the

Tri-City Medical Center Tri-City Medical Center (Tri-City or TCMC), founded in 1961, is a full-service, acute-care public hospital in Oceanside, California. Located 40 miles north of San Diego, Tri-City serves three major cities in the North County section of San Diego ...

community hospital in Oceanside. The partnership is expected to help Tri-City improve patient outcomes and reduce its readmission rate. Research affiliations of the health system include external physicians and researchers connected through the aforementioned Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute. In addition, UC San Diego scientists are affiliated with the CIRM-funded Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. The Sanford Consortium is a stem cell research partnership between UC San Diego, the

, the

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, the

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and the

. It is housed in a building adjacent to Salk, UC San Diego, and the

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and performs basic and preclinical stem cell and regenerative medicine research. Non-medical affiliations of the health system include the

and the

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. In 2015, UC San Diego Health spent $30 million for a 30-year naming rights deal to the Blue Line operated by San Diego Trolley, Inc. The deal changes the line's name to the UC San Diego Blue Line and grants UC San Diego the right to wrap three trolleys with advertising. It also changes three station names in the future: the planned Voigt Drive station near Jacobs Medical Center, now called UC San Diego Health La Jolla, the Pepper Canyon station, now called UC San Diego Central Campus Station, and the opening of the Mid-Coast Extension will change

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to Old Town UC San Diego Health Hillcrest (to denote its shuttle connection to the nearby Hillcrest hospital).

Clinics

UC San Diego Health operates outpatient clinics throughout San Diego County. There are multiple locations in La Jolla, Hillcrest and

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. It also has clinics in

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Chula Vista Chula Vista (; ) is the second-largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area, the seventh largest city in Southern California, the fifteenth largest city in the state of California, and the 78th-largest city in the United States. The popul ...

Kearny Mesa Kearny Mesa is a community in the central part of San Diego, California. It is bounded by State Route 52 to the north, Interstate 805 to the west, Aero Drive to the south, and Interstate 15 to the east. Adjacent communities include Serra Mesa, C ...

Sorrento Valley Sorrento Valley is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. It is located about 17 mi (27 km) north of Downtown San Diego and its main airport, Lindbergh Field. It is roughly bounded by Interstate 5 and Interstate 805, Camino Santa Fe to ...

Scripps Ranch Scripps Ranch is a community of San Diego, California in the northeastern part of that city. Its ZIP code is 92131. It is located east of Interstate 15, north of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, and south of Poway. Scripps Ranch is a coastal/i ...

, Rancho Bernardo,

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, and Temecula.

New facility and planned expansions

In 2018, UC San Diego Health opened the new 156,000-square-foot Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion in La Jolla. The facility includes eight surgery suites, basic and advanced imaging, physical therapy and pain management, as well as infusion and apheresis services. Additionally, long-range plans are underway to modernize and expand UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. The Hillcrest hospital will be completely renovated or replaced on the same site before 2030, when it will fail to meet seismic safety standards.

References

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