Clinical Excellence and Achievements
UC San Diego Health System is the region’s only academic health system and has been in operation since 1966.
Our Mission
To take exceptional care of people by:
- Providing excellent and compassionate patient care
- Advancing medical discoveries
- Educating the health care professionals of tomorrow
Our Facilities
UC San Diego Health System includes:
*UC San Diego Medical Center, UC San Diego Thornton Hospital and UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center operate under one license, with a combined licensed capacity of 600 beds.
Regional Services
Regional Impact
UC San Diego Medical Center Declared one of top 100 Hospitals in U.S.
- In 2012, UC San Diego Medical Center, located in Hillcrest, was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters. Ranked among the country’s major teaching hospitals, the Medical Center was also one of twelve hospitals to receive the Everest Award. This award honors hospitals that have achieved both the highest current performance and the fastest long-term improvement over a five-year period in Reuter’s national benchmarking study.
- In 2011 UC San Diego Health System was bestowed Magnet® status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The Magnet Recognition Program® recognizes health care organizations for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in nursing practice.
- In 2011, UC San Diego Health System performed the West Coast’s first implant of the world’s only FDA-approved total artificial heart in a four-hour procedure.
- Integrated electronic, cloud-based technology to share radiology files between UC San Diego Health System and other, remote medical facilities; this approach replaces images burned to a CD and sent via courier or a virtual private network (VPN), speeds the diagnosis and treatment of patients, and overcomes the issue of incompatible information technology (IT) systems.
- UC San Diego Health System named a winner of the 2011 University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Quality Leadership Award, which honors top performers in the areas of quality, effectiveness, safety, equity, patient-centeredness and efficiency, in UHC’s Quality and Accountability Study.
- UC San Diego Health System has received the American College of Cardiology Foundation’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) ACTION Registry® “Get with the Guidelines” Gold distinction for four consecutive years.
- UC San Diego Health System was ranked first in San Diego in U.S. News & World Report’s first-ever “Best Hospitals” metro rankings in 2011. To be ranked in its metro area, a hospital had to score in the top 25 percent among its peers in at least one of 16 medical specialties. This prestigious ranking recognizes UC San Diego Health System as a leader in delivering groundbreaking health care to Southern California.
- In 2010, UC San Diego Health Sciences and its Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) partners received a $37.2 million Clinical and Translational Science Award grant to speed up the development of laboratory discoveries into effective treatments for patients.
- Received $15.3 million Beacon Community Collaborative award in 2010 on behalf of a broad collaboration of San Diego health care providers and other community partners — one of only 17 communities across the country selected for this award, designed to pilot the wide-scale use of health information technology and health information exchanges (HIE) to improve quality of care and efficiency.
- Honored as one of the top 15 teaching hospitals in the country by Thomson Reuters in 2010.
- UC San Diego Health System has been ranked in the annual U.S. News & World Report‘s “Best Hospitals” issue for 18 years and is the region’s only adult hospital consistently ranked among the best in multiple specialties.
- Our physicians are consistently named by their peers at the San Diego County Medical Society as “Top Doctors” in San Diego Magazine’s “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” annual survey.
- Once-unimaginable technology is used regularly at UC San Diego Health System’s Center for the Future of Surgery, where teams of surgeons are leading the way in minimally invasive surgery techniques, such as Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).
- UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center is San Diego’s only National Cancer Institute-designated
- Comprehensive Cancer Center — one of only 40 in the nation.Affiliations
- UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center was designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology in 2010, a designation given to fewer than 6 percent of the imaging centers in California.
- UC San Diego Health System’s Stroke Center was the first in San Diego to receive a Joint Commission Gold Seal.
- For six consecutive years, UC San Diego Health System has been among the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals, and for four years, one of the 25 “Most Wireless,” according to Hospitals & Health Networks.
- Nursing Professionals magazine rated UC San Diego Health System in the Top 100 Places to Work in 2009.
- UC San Diego Health System was named a Designated Hospital by Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) in 2010 — the only national geriatric initiative to improve the care of older hospitalized adults.
- The Breast Center at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center is the first hospital-based program in California to receive accreditation from the National Accreditation Program of Breast Centers, a program administered by the American College of Surgeons.
Affiliations
- Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego
- St. Jude Children’s Hospital
- Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System
- Sharp Memorial Hospital Joint Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Fiscal Year 2011 Key Statistics
Number of Employees: 5,682
Annual Discharges: 25,742
Average Daily Census: 384
Emergency Visits: 61,446
Total Outpatient Visits: 554,013
Average Length of Stay: 5.5 days
Operating Revenue: $913,648 million (unaudited)
Operating Expense: $798,378 million (unaudited)
October 2011