Facilities Overview - UC San Diego Health System

Facilities at UC San Diego Health System

UC San Diego Medical Center, in Hillcrest

UC San Diego Medical Center

Opened: 1966 | Size: 490,000 GSF | Map and directions

200 West Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103

Facility Highlights:

UC San Diego Thornton Hospital

UC San Diego Thornton Hospital

Opened: 1993 | Size: 238,792 GSF | Map and directions

9300 Campus Point Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037

Facility Highlights:

  • General, 3-story medical/surgical facility that offers a full range of services, including specialty surgery, cardiology, endocrinology, fetal care and genetics, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, reproductive medicine, pulmonary medicine, and rehabilitation services
  • 119 beds
  • Adjacent to Perlman Medical Offices, where more than 30 specialty outpatient services are based
UC San Diego Shiley Eye Center

UC San Diego Shiley Eye Center

Opened: 1991 | Size: 91,000 GSF | Map and directions

9415 Campus Point Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Facility Highlights:

  • Shiley Eye Center main building — 43,000 gsf (1991)
  • Anne and Abraham Ratner Children’s Eye Center — 6,000 gsf (1995)
  • Joan and Irwin Jacobs Retina Center — 12,500 gsf (2004)
  • Hamilton Glaucoma Center — 12,500 gsf (2004)
  • New Shiley Wing — 17,000 gsf (2008 and 2010)
Stein Clinical Research Building 

Stein Clinical Research Building

Opened: 1991 | Size: 109,883 GSF

9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Facility Highlights:

  • 5 stories with 285 rooms
  • Established with a gift from Sam Rose Stein
  • Space for the university's leading-edge laboratory and research on everything from pediatric to psychiatric care
  • Home of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building

Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building

Opened: 2003 | Cost: $45 million | Size: 54,860 GSF

9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Facility Highlights:

  • 7 stories with 367 rooms
  • Space for the university’s leading-edge biomedical research, particularly in the area of childhood diseases
  • Wet and dry lab space with 30 lab modules per floor, cold rooms, procedure rooms, and dedicated dark rooms
  • Unique to this facility is the use of outside walkways allowing for open corridors
  • Name recognizes a gift from the Leichtag Family Foundation
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

Opened: 2005 | Size: 260,000 GSF | Map and directions

3855 Health Sciences Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Facility Highlights:

  • 3-story facility for clinical services and administration
  • 5-story research tower
  • 24 exam rooms
  • One of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States
  • First in San Diego to acquire a 3T MRI scanner for clinical use in 2005
Skaggs Pharmaceutical Sciences Building

Skaggs Pharmaceutical Sciences Building

Opened: 2005 | Size: 125,030 GSF

9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Facility Highlights:

  • 5 stories with 289 rooms
  • State-of-the art lab and instructional facilities for UC San Diego’s pharmacy program, including:
    • Wet and dry research laboratory space
    • Shared support laboratory space, including analytical laboratories
    • Faculty and administrative offices
    • Classrooms and auditorium
  • Name recognizes a gift from the Skaggs Institute for Research, an organization created and funded by nationally recognized pioneer of retail drugstore and grocery business L.S. “Sam” Skaggs and his wife, Aline.
UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center

UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center

Opened: 2011 | Cost: $228M | Size: 128,000 GSF | Map and Directions

9434 Medical Center Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037

Facility Highlights:

  • 20 exam rooms
  • Diagnostic center
  • 12 cardiac intensive care level beds
  • 22 beds for pre- and post-procedure care
  • 42 progressive care beds
  • 4 “smart” operating rooms
  • 4 catheterization labs
  • New Emergency Department with 21 treatment rooms
  • Named one of the nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals for 2013 by Truven Health Analytics
  • Ranked #10 on Soliant Health Care’s annual list of top 20 most beautiful hospitals in the U.S.
  • Received the 2012 Modern Healthcare Design Award. Out of more than 100 entries, only one other facility received this honor in 2012.
  • First LEED Gold certified acute care facility in the San Diego region.
Medical Education-Telemedicine Building

Medical Education and Telemedicine Building

Opened 2011 | Cost: $70M | Size: 132,000 GSF

9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Facility Highlights:

  • Tiered 359-seat auditorium
  • Conference rooms
  • Telemedicine training and consultation
  • 18 exam rooms where students practice interviewing/examining mock patients
  • The Center for the Future of Surgery includes:
    • Instructional operating room with 22 complete surgical tables
    • 20-station microsurgery lab
    • da Vinci® Si Surgical Systems and Simbionix™ laparoscopy and endoscopy simulators
    • Simulation center with an operating room, intensive care unit, emergency room and medical/surgical hospital room
  • Awarded the 2012 Orchid for Architecture by the San Diego Architectural Foundation
East Campus Office Buildings

East Campus Office Building

Opened: 2011 | Cost: $33M | Size: 75,000 GSF

9444 Medical Center Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Facility Highlights:

  • Clinical trials operations and support
  • Other offices for faculty and administrative purposes
  • 3-story facility
  • Spectrally selective, insulated glass panes and high-efficiency cooling systems and water usage
Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine

Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine

Opened: 2011 | Cost: $28M | Size: 87,000 GSF

10300 Campus Point Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037

Facility Highlights:

  • High-tech diagnostic services to support clinically applied translational research and development activities
  • Education and conference center
  • Lab areas
  • Administrative offices
  • Biorepository
  • Informatics Center
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

Sanford Consortium
for Regenerative Medicine

Opened: 2011 | Cost: $127M | Size: 150,000 GSF

2880 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037

Consortium consists of the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, the Salk Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, UC San Diego, and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

Facility Highlights:

  • Designed to support both focused individual and collaborative team research
  • Sustainable design – Gold certified by LEED
  • Wet and dry research space
  • Lab and clinical space
  • Vivarium and imaging facilities
  • Meeting rooms, auditorium and offices
Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility II

Health Sciences Biomedical
Research Facility II

Opening Date: 2013 | Cost: $105M | Size: 196,00 GSF

Project Includes:

  • 3-story building
  • Biomedical research space
  • Wet labs, open lab space and core lab space
  • Vivarium
  • Administrative offices
  • Targeting LEED Platinum Certification)
J. Craig Venter Institute

J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)

Opening Date: 2013 | Cost: $35M | Size: 45,000 GSF

Project Includes:

  • Highly adaptable, wet laboratory and computational laboratory
  • Will house 125 scientists and staff
  • One of the first biological research laboratories in the world generating 100 percent of its power on site (solar power)
  • Use of natural day lighting and views, natural ventilation/passive cooling, rainwater harvesting, native low-water landscaping, use of regional materials, green roofs, recycled content, sustainably harvested wood
  • Roof gardens featuring flowering trees, shrubs, grasses and succulents will be installed on the three terraces to help shade and cool the building
  • Targeting LEED Platinum certification
Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute

Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI)

Opening Date: 2016 | Cost: $269M | Size: 350,000 GSF

Project Includes:

  • Split-level, seven-floor structure, integrated into the natural topography of the canyon
  • Floors are arranged in a five-sided polygon, with a terrace at street level and a courtyard on the lowest level.
  • Multidisciplinary research and engineering laboratories
  • Multidisciplinary computational, clinical research and informatics laboratories
  • Center for clinical research with an infusion center, sleep/chronobiology rooms and more
  • Conference rooms
  • Interior and courtyard interaction spaces and café
  • Laboratory and bio-repository cores
  • Physician and CTRI project offices
  • Auditorium
  • Targeting LEED Gold Certification
UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center

UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center

Opening Date: 2016 | Cost: $670M | Size: 509,500 GSF

Project Includes:

  • 3 New Hospitals:
    • Hospital for Advanced Surgery
    • Hospital for Cancer Care
    • Hospital for Women and Infants
  • 1 Existing Hospital:
    • Thornton Hospital
  • 10 stories
  • 161 beds
  • 5 operating rooms
  • 3 rooms in the Birthing Center
  • 3 rooms for C-section deliveries
  • 8 Labor and Delivery rooms
  • 20 postpartum inpatient rooms
  • 52 private, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rooms
  • Bone Marrow Transplant Unit designed as an open unit with positive air pressure for the entire floor
  • Helicopter landing pad with direct access to all floors
  • Separate 40,000-square-foot central utility plant
  • Renovation of 31,000 square feet of the existing Thornton Hospital
  • State-of-the-art technology and low carbon footprint, with LEED Silver certification
  • Supportive healing environment for patients and their families
    • Natural light and connection to nature
    • Peaceful terraced gardens
    • Non-denominational chapel
    • Lounges on every patient floor

March 2013