The medical expansion at UC San Diego comes as other local health systems have invested heavily in new facilities as well.
“We’re going to add a major outpatient cancer presence at Hillcrest so that patients don’t have to go all the way to Moores (Cancer Center in La Jolla),” Viviano said.Īfter the Jacobs center comes online, between 30 and 40 double-patient rooms at Hillcrest will be converted to single-patient rooms. In addition, plans are in the works to increase the range of cancer services available at the Hillcrest facility once the Jacobs hospital opens. While transplant surgeries will occur only at the La Jolla facility starting in 2016, patients may still recover or prepare for transplants in beds at the Hillcrest hospital. Kidney and liver transplant surgeries will be the only procedures shifting entirely to the Jacobs medical center, Viviano said. The medical campus in Hillcrest also will maintain trauma services and the health system’s burn unit. We think that’s just a better plan to serve that community and not ask them to travel all the way to La Jolla,” Viviano said. “We’re going to continue delivering babies at Hillcrest. The Hillcrest facility will still offer some labor and delivery services, and it will operate a smaller neonatal intensive care unit. He said the initial strategy called for moving all labor and delivery services to the Jacobs hospital from UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. When completed, Jacobs Medical Center will have 245 beds, 36 of them for a bone-marrow transplant unit with its own special air-filtering equipment to protect patients with compromised immune systems.Īs the building rises, Viviano said the plans for its use have evolved. Scheduled to open in July 2016, the medical center’s blue-green facade is visible from Interstate 5, next to the university’s Thornton Hospital and across the street from Scripps Memorial Hospital - La Jolla.Ĭonstruction crews are finishing the structure’s interior, adding walls and utilities from the ground up. “There are still gifts we have in the pipeline that are not finalized yet, but they will be soon,” Viviano said.
In addition, the Pauline and Stanley Foster Hospital for Cancer Care commemorates a $7.5 million contribution. Vassiliadis Family Hospital for Advanced Surgery. For example, local philanthropist Carol Vassiliadis donated $8.5 million, an amount that spurred UC San Diego officials to name the medical center’s surgical hospital the A.
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