October 24, 2019
…chime plays, all employees—doctors, nurses, care teams and staff—voluntarily line the transit hallway. The chime was composed by Erin Jenkins, a registered nurse at UC San Diego Health. “I wanted to lovingly create the music for all to hear during such a poignant moment. My hope is that every time…
September 5, 2012
Enzo Ocio, a premature baby born 1 pound, 10 ounces at only 25 weeks, spent four and a half months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University of California, San Diego Health System in Hillcrest. He was put on life support, suffered from multiple infections and struggled…
July 20, 2023
The ceremony recognized the work of individuals and teams whose improvement projects made a positive impact for providers, staff and patients at UC San Diego Health.
October 28, 2019
UC San Diego Health opens a new clinic in Eastlake that offers express care and imaging capabilities with primary care opening late 2019.
June 10, 2019
UC San Diego Health has expanded north for primary care options with the opening of our Encinitas clinic, which will offer pediatrics, family medicine and Express Care.
May 10, 2016
A new technology in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at UC San Diego Health is able to predict the risk of life-threatening infections up to 24 hours before they appear in severely premature or critically ill infants. Infection is the leading cause of death in this fragile patient population.
April 15, 2021
…tragedies. Janet Davis, a nurse-practitioner with UC San Diego Health’s Population Health Services Organization, sits next to Brenda Tanoi, age 68, to go over paperwork before administering Tanoi’s second dose of the COVID-19 vaccination from the comfort of her home. “Since February 2020, I have lost one to two family…
December 9, 2021
…SDSC has allowed school nurses and primary care pediatricians to replace a time-consuming and complex set of public health regulations with a 30-second survey. And this amazing facilitative device repeats this gift of time several times a day, child after child,” said Dr. Taras. The team is now working on…
April 24, 2018
From holding your baby for the first time to bonding through breastfeeding, UC San Diego Health is committed to providing the highest quality of care and support for the best start to parenthood and life. Recently, Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla was recognized with the prestigious Baby-Friendly Designation for…
April 2, 2014
The University of California, San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest has been named one of “100 Great Hospitals in America” by Becker’s Hospital Review, a publishing group that conducts hospital and healthcare news and analyses, which described the honorees as “some of the most prominent, forward-thinking and focused healthcare facilities…
