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An Elevated Patient Experience – By Design

The West Health Accelerator at UC San Diego Health is designed to make care easier to get and easier to move through, from primary care and specialty appointments to hospital stays, follow-up care and care at home.

The goal is simple: less waiting, fewer gaps and the next step ready when you need it.

Putting Innovation to Work for You

Building on innovations of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation, the Accelerator puts real-time information and technology to work for your care teams, so they can see what's coming and plan ahead. Technology helps spot what needs attention. Your doctors, nurses and care team decide what happens next and make it happen.

How the Accelerator Connects Your Care

Infographic from the West Health Accelerator at UC San Diego Health illustrating a coordinated care journey. The graphic shows three stages: getting to care (referrals and transfers), receiving care (treatment and procedures), and continuing care (follow-up and care at home). Examples include transfer optimization, patient placement, real-time care coordination, procedure planning, discharge planning, and follow-up support. The goal is to provide coordinated, timely care, clear next steps, more time for patient care, and more healthy days at home.

Your care may take you from a referral or hospital transfer, to treatment, to recovery at home. Here's how the Accelerator is designed to connect each step, and what we're working toward for you and your family.

Care in One Place, Connected Behind the Scenes

Rendering of the future UC San Diego Health La Jolla Outpatient Pavillion.

On Nov. 10, UC San Diego Health broke ground on the Gary and Mary West Outpatient Pavilion, the new 180,000-square-foot gateway to its La Jolla medical campus. In this new building, you'll be able to go from consultation to imaging, surgery, recovery and rehabilitation, with fewer trips between facilities. It is expected to open in 2030.

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