Hospitals

UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest

• 390-bed Level 1 Trauma Center and Regional Burn Center
  
• De facto safety net hospital for San Diego County
• Serves a diverse, underserved patient population, including an indigent patient population
  
• Receives referrals from all over California, throughout the United States, and around the world
• Comprehensive internal medicine subspecialty services available, including the renowned Owen Clinic for HIV/AIDS treatment and the Senior Behavioral Health joint geriatric/psychiatric unit
  
• Busy emergency department with over 50,000 annual visits
  

UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center

• 418-bed hospital on the UCSD Health Sciences Campus in La Jolla
  
• Encompasses several clinical and research sites, including:
  
• Moores Cancer Center
  
• Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center
• Altman Clinical and Scientific Translational Research Institute
  
• Shiley Eye Institute
  

• Tertiary and quarternary referral center:
• Advanced endoscopy
• Advanced heart failure
• Bone marrow transplantation
• Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) program
• Cystic fibrosis
• Interventional pulmonology
• Mechanical circulatory support and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
  
• Solid organ transplantation
• Stroke and neurocritical care

Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System

• 296 -bed primary and tertiary care center
  
• Consistently top-performing VA Healthcare System
  
• Serves >200,000 veterans in the San Diego region
  
• Regional VA Referral Center for advanced procedures and clinical care
  
• Combined coronary care and medical intensive care unit
  
• Consultation services across all medical subspecialties