UC Irvine Acute Care Hospital Gets Regents Approval

Plans to build an acute care hospital on the northern edge of the University of California, Irvine academic campus are advancing with the University of California Board of Regents granting approval of the project’s 144-bed acute care facility, ambulatory care center and cancer center.

The hospital joins the previously approved UCI Health Center for Advanced Care to create the new UCI Medical Center Irvine-Newport, a full-service academic health complex that will bring advanced healthcare services to coastal and southern Orange County, including access to hundreds of clinical trials underway at UCI Health.

The medical center will create the region’s only health system supported by one of the nation’s top academic research institutions. The new UCI Health medical campus will complement the flagship UCI Medical Center in Orange, home to Orange County’s principal tertiary-quaternary care center, only combined Level I adult/Level II pediatric trauma and regional burn centers, and specialty care at the UCI Health Digestive Health Institute and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, the county’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center.

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