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The country’s first all-electric hospital will open in Irvine later this year. As detailed by the Daily Pilot, the first patients at the University of California Irvine’s new “hospital of the future” at Jamboree Road and Birch Street are expected on Dec. 10. “The operation of this campus will have no emissions,” said Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health general services, when speaking with LAist. “The energy that we’re utilizing is all green electricity that we’re importing.” In contrast, UCI Medical Center in Orange uses natural gas for about 25% of its power.

Hospital officials did clarify that, in cases of emergency, diesel generators could be used to avoid power outages during surgeries. Orange, Calif. — UCI Health announced the significant completion of UCI Health — Irvine, the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital. The milestone means moving into the 144-bed, seven-story, 350,000-square-foot hospital, can begin. When it opens in December 2025, it will be the sixth hospital in the academic health system, which is one of the largest in California. More than 200 members of the UCI Health and Hensel Phelps teams came together to celebrate and recognize the hard work and dedication the went into building a high-tech hospital of the future that...

“We are extraordinarily proud of this state-of-the-art facility and the visionaries who have worked tirelessly to bring it to fruition. We thank each person who has contributed to this project,” said Chad T. Lefteris, president and CEO of UCI Health. "Their work means that residents of coastal and south Orange County will have full and convenient access to collaborative, research-driven, next-generation care, hallmarks of academic medicine.” Something momentous is happening on a large piece of land situated just off Jamboree Road and Birch Street: UC Irvine is about to open the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital. Under development for years, this ambitious $1.2-billion project is aiming to push the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare and sustainability, while also building in enough flexibility to allow for updates and expansion as...

It’s what Chad Lefteris, the president and chief executive officer of UCI Health, refers to as “future-proofing.” Since I first learned about this project I’ve been itching to get an inside look, and I finally got that opportunity earlier this month, just ahead of a community open house planned for Nov. 15 and the first patients arriving on Dec. 10. What I saw did not disappoint, and if all goes well, this first-of-its-kind facility will provide a blueprint for others to follow. UCI years ago identified the need for a healthcare hub in the area, as many patients were traveling outside of Orange County for medical treatment.

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support today . Hospitals are notorious for their greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around 5% of emissions globally. The UCI Medical Center in Orange relies on natural gas, a greenhouse gas that’s more potent than carbon dioxide, for about 25% of its power. And that’s why UCI Health is touting its latest facility as the “hospital of the future.” In December, the country’s first all-electric hospital will open in Irvine along the San Joaquin Marsh.

Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health general services, said the hospital will adopt a “healthcare without harm” model. “The operation of this campus will have no emissions,” he said. “The energy that we're utilizing is all green electricity that we're importing.” UCI Health‘s newest hospital is slated to start admitting patients on Dec. 7, hospital leaders said, opening a seven-story, 144-bed facility that UCI calls the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital. The 350,000-square-foot building stands at the corner of Jamboree Road and Birch Street in Irvine and caps a $1.3 billion medical campus that includes a cancer center and ambulatory care building.

Hospital officials say the new facility will serve residents of central, coastal and south Orange County and offer specialties including cancer care, cardiology, digestive health, neurosciences, orthopedics and spine, along with interventional radiology, catheterization... The hospital and adjacent cancer center are connected by a massive surgical “megafloor,” spanning the width of three football fields, with operating rooms, sterilization areas and flexible pre- and post-op recovery space. “This is a really historic thing,” said Chad Lefteris, president and CEO of UCI Health at a celebration Friday, Sept. 19, marking the completion of construction and being handed the keys for the health system’s sixth hospital, adding to its medical center in Orange. “We are finally returning to Irvine as a health system. We’ve been up on the Orange freeway for a while and now we’ve returned fully to meet the needs in Irvine and the central and coastal communities.”

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“This building is different from a traditional medical center in that we don’t use any carbon fuels for our normal operations,” Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health General Services, said in the release. “All of the electricity we use is either generated onsite or procured through sustainable sources.” The facility is powered by solar panels on the roof and uses recycled water. Healthcare organizations face a dual imperative: deliver compassionate care while modernizing operations to improve patient experience and prove measurable value.… The all-electric, zero emission UCI Health Irvine Hospital paves the way for lowering the impacts of future health facilities. When the $1.3-billion UCI Health - Irvine Hospital & Ambulatory Care Center makes its debut this December, the project will be one of a kind.

The facility, on the campus of the University of California, Irvine (UCI), will be the first all-electric, zero-emission hospital in the nation. In going all-electric, Brian Pratt, campus architect at UC Irvine, says the project team looked at the UC system’s goal of decarbonizing its 10 campuses and six academic health centers by 2045, and “we... And so our campus leadership basically said, ‘Let’s set the standard for the future of hospitals.’” That ambitious goal also created major construction challenges for the CO Architects + Hensel Phelps design-build team, which worked in close collaboration with UCI Health. In September, the team reached substantial completion on the project and officially handed the ceremonial master key to UCI Health leadership. The new facility will offer a 350,000-sq-ft specialty hospital, a 220,000-sq-ft ambulatory care center (ACC) and parking structure, but the star of the show is the massive, 31,848-sq-ft central utility plant that supplies power...

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