Overview
- The seven-story, 350,000-square-foot acute care facility opened Wednesday with 144 beds.
- Patient rooms, clinical equipment and the kitchen run on electricity from onsite solar and water systems.
- A diesel generator provides a code-required life-safety backup for emergencies.
- UCI Health officials say the hospital will add about 1,000 health care jobs.
- Design features include a courtyard that doubles as the roof over operating and procedure rooms on a former marshland site at Jamboree Road and Campus Drive.