Jacobs Medical Center | |
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UC San Diego Health | |
Geography | |
Location | La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States |
Coordinates | 32°52′40″N 117°13′35″W / 32.877703°N 117.226499°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Private |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | University of California, San Diego |
Services | |
Beds | 364 |
Helipad | Yes |
Public transit access | UC San Diego Health La Jolla |
History | |
Opened | 2016 |
Links | |
Website | healthlocations |
Lists | Hospitals in California |
Jacobs Medical Center is a teaching hospital on the University of California, San Diego campus in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego. Along with the UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest, it serves as a flagship hospital of UC San Diego Health and the primary teaching hospital for the UC San Diego School of Medicine. The facility, which offers specialized care not previously available in San Diego County, opened in 2016.
Jacobs Medical Center comprises three specialty pavilions.[1] The A. Vassiliadis Family Pavilion for Advanced Surgery occupies floors two and three.[2] Floors four through six are reserved for the Pauline and Stanley Foster Pavilion for Cancer Care, and the eighth through tenth floors are occupied by the Rady Pavilion for Women and Infants.[3][4] Jacobs Medical Center and the existing Thornton Pavilion share a first, second and third floor and are connected to Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, the Perlman Medical Offices, and the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute building via footbridges.