Overview
- The hospital opened on Dec. 10 and began receiving patients immediately, with the first emergency patient arriving at 7:52 a.m.
- The 350,000-square-foot acute care facility is the sixth hospital in UCI Health’s 1,461-bed academic system.
- Patient rooms, clinical equipment, and the kitchen run on electricity sourced from on-site solar and water-driven systems with no natural gas use.
- Diesel generators remain on site solely to provide life-safety power during outages, as required by regulations.
- UCI Health says the project finished in just over four years and is expected to create about 1,000 health care jobs.