Regional Burn Center
Since 1973, the UC San Diego Regional Burn Center has served the San Diego and Imperial counties with:
- State-of-the-art care to victims of burn injury
- Support to families and friends
- Community education
- Emergency medical personnel training
- Research and the advancement of burn care
The presence of the UC San Diego Regional Burn Center in our region means that residents of San Diego and Imperial Counties can receive excellent treatment regardless of whether they have suffered minor or major burn injuries.
The UC San Diego Regional Burn Center includes eight ICU beds for critical burn patients, with a step down Burn Intermediate care unit that houses up to 10 additional, less critical burn patients. The center also staffs a full time burn outpatient clinic that is open 24hours/7days to care for burn injured children and adults. During a large event and influx of patients, such as the October 2007 wildfires, the Regional Burn Center has the capacity to overflow to other units.
Each year we admit approximately 450 burn victims, and hundreds more are treated as outpatients. Burn victims span all ages, and consultants from all fields of medical specialties are available. The nurses, physicians, physician assistants, and other staff at the UC San Diego Regional Burn Center are the finest in the field and are dedicated to providing the best possible care for our patients.
The Regional Burn Center staff is involved in numerous research projects that are improving our ability to care for burn patients. Some of these projects will be discussed in the near future on this web site. Burn education is also an important mission of the Regional Burn Center, and we frequently conduct educational sessions in the community.
In 2009 the Burn Center received its certificate of verification from the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) as an adult and pediatric Burn Center. We are one of only 58 burn centers recognized nationally with this distinction of excellence.
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Regional Burn Center
UCSD Medical Center
200 West Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA (619) 543-6502
Fax: (619) 543-6502