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Hospital Facilities

Check out all of the Facilities UC San Diego Health has to offer!

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UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest

UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest is a 422-bed facility with a uniquely diverse patient population representing a cross-section of all socio-economic classes in need of both primary and specialized tertiary care. This facility also serves as the "county hospital" for the greater San Diego area. For internal medicine training, the Hillcrest facility is one of the core hospitals providing experiences in the MICU, wards, and sub-specialty electives.

The Burn Unit serves as the regional burn referral center for both children and adults. Located near downtown San Diego and the San Diego airport, the hospital is situated in a pleasant and safe neighborhood within walking distance of one of San Diego's most active social scenes — the neighborhood of Hillcrest.

Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System

The VA San Diego Healthcare System (VAMC) is a 336-bed research facility that provides state-of-the-art care to the veterans of southern California and those referred for tertiary care from throughout the Southwestern U.S.

The hospital features a modern combined medical and cardiac intensive care unit, a cardiac catheterization lab, and a full-service emergency room/urgent care center staffed by internists and emergency physicians. The hospital is located on the edge of the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla/University City and is within walking distance of the University bookstore and student centers. A convenient shuttle bus runs between the VA and Hillcrest facilities.

UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (CVC)

UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (CVC) opened in August of 2011 and is the first dedicated cardiovascular center in San Diego. CVC specialists provide services available only at the top medical centers in the nation, including:
  • Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE)
  • Off-pump coronary bypass (OPCAB)
  • Minimally invasive valve replacement
  • Lead extraction (in hybrid operating room)
  • High-volume interventional cardiology

Immediately adjacent to the CVC are Thornton Pavilion, which is a private 128-bed modern hospital facility; Jacobs Medical Center (245-bed facility), the Perlman Medical Offices and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. The CVC, Thornton, and Jacobs hospitals are connected to one another. The Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center are one of just 69 centers in the United States to hold a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. As such, it ranks among the top centers in the nation conducting basic and clinical cancer research, providing advanced patient care, and serving the community through outreach and education programs.

Medicine-pediatrics and categorical residents spend time at Jacobs on pediatrics for NICU and newborn, as well as internal medicine electives, including pulmonary, infectious disease, oncology, palliative care, and hospitalist electives. The CVC and Thornton/Jacobs Hospitals are located a few miles from the VAMC near the main UC San Diego undergraduate campus in the heart of the "Golden Triangle" encompassing La Jolla, University City, and beach and Mesa neighborhoods of San Diego.

Jacobs Medical Center

Opened in October of 2016, the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center is a 245-bed, state-of-the-art hospital and the new home of obstetrics, with a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and newborn care facilities as well as floors dedicated to bone marrow transplant patients, medicine patients, oncologic care, surgical care, and ICU. Residents rotate through Jacobs Medical Center for NICU and newborn rotations, as well as electives, including pulmonary, neurocritical care, infectious disease, hospitalist, and more. Jacobs Medical Center is conveniently attached to Thornton Pavilion and the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center.

Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego

Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego is the largest children's hospital in California by volume and the fifth largest children's hospital in the nation. With 551 beds, it is the county's only Regional Level I Pediatric Trauma Center, Level III NICU, and the heart of pediatric inpatient services for the greater San Diego area, providing care to over 215,000 children per year.

As a focal point for progressive pediatric care in the county, RCHSD is home to unique multidisciplinary teams such as the Cleft Palate clinic, Failure-to-Thrive clinic, Kawasaki disease team, Speech and Hearing Center, and Center for Child Protection. Rady Children's also runs the only pediatric skilled nursing facility in California, the 43-bed Helen Bernardy Center. The hospital is located a few miles north of UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and is only a 10-15 minute drive from VAMC and UCSD La Jolla Campus hospitals.

UC San Diego Medical Education & Telemedicine Center

The UC San Diego Medical Education & Telemedicine (MET) Center opened in September of 2011. It is located on the UC San Diego undergraduate campus in La Jolla and is home to the UCSD School of Medicine offices, auditorium, classrooms, and state-of-the-art simulation facilities.

  • This center includes 9,000-square-foot clinical skills and simulation center, with 18 exam rooms, a simulated hospital room, intensive care unit, emergency room, and an operating room
  • A 6,800-square-foot medical and surgical procedures teaching laboratory with 22 stations, where students, residents and current practitioners will be instructed in the latest surgical, laparoscopic, robotic, endoscopic, catheterization and other special techniques

It is truly the most technologically advanced 21st-century medical education building in the nation, built to train the future physicians of tomorrow. Residents have access to the simulation labs in this building to build confidence and competence in invasive procedures, and in adult and pediatric mock codes using the ICU and ER simulator.