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Uci Health S New All Electric Hospital Reinforces System S Commitment

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uci health s new all electric hospital reinforces system s commitment

Nicole Ortiz is the editor of Healthcare Brew where she occasionally writes about sustainability, climate change, and health equity. A recent trend report showed hospital executives are still holding strong to sustainability-related commitments regardless of federal changes. University of California, Irvine (UCI) Health is embodying that with its new all-electric hospital, set to open Dec. 10. UCI Health says the new hospital is the first all-electric acute care hospital of its size in the country, featuring renewable solar park structures, electric instead of gas for utilities like heating and hot... And electricity isn’t the only sustainable feature at the 350,000-square-foot, 144-bed hospital, Brothman said.

The hospital also has rainwater collection built into its landscaping that uses recycled water, bird-friendly glass, around 87% outdoor water reduction and about 38.5% indoor water reduction, and energy efficient equipment for lighting along... 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.” UCI Health — Irvine offers a new kind of hospital, a new kind of patient experience When the first patients arrived at UCI Health — Irvine during its Dec.

10 opening, they stepped into a new standard for American healthcare: a seven-story, 144-bed acute care hospital that is both part of the region’s only academic health system and the nation’s first all-electric acute... Tucked along the edge of the 300-acre San Joaquin Marsh Reserve, it brings together cutting-edge medicine; flexible surgical and intensive care spaces; a chef-inspired, culturally attuned menu; and a tranquil setting framed by native... “UCI Health — Irvine embodies what it means to be a modern public research university,” says UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman. “We are extending world-class, research-driven care into the community in a way that is compassionate, forward-looking and deeply rooted in this place we call home.” Orange County’s only academic health system UCI is making medical and environmental history with the opening of America’s first all-electric acute care hospital set for Dec.

10. The $1.2 billion facility is designed to provide state-of-the-art patient care while working towards the University of California (UC) system’s goal to reduce 90% of its total carbon emissions by 2045. Located at the corner of Jamboree Road and Birch Street, the new Irvine Campus Medical Complex (ICMC) will serve as a center for acute and ambulatory care, advanced cancer treatment and research with 144-beds,... The ICMC will include 24-hour emergency care and specialties in cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, spinal care, digestive health and oncology — all powered by clean electricity. The healthcare industry contributes to 8.5% of all carbon emissions, according to UCI Health. UCI Health’s existing medical center in Orange, Calif., relies on natural gas for about 25% of its power.

Natural gas emits methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide. Hoping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, UCI considered early in the planning process simply cutting back on fossil fuels. However, after consulting with engineers, the university decided to go the extra mile and eliminate natural gas use entirely. “The operation of this campus will have no emissions,” Joe Brothman, director of UCI Health general services, said in an interview with the LAist. “The energy that we’re utilizing is all green electricity that we’re importing.” 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... When the first patients arrived at UCI Health — Irvine during its Dec. 10 opening, they stepped into a new standard for American healthcare: a seven-story, 144-bed acute care hospital that is both part of the region’s only academic health system and the nation’s first all-electric acute... Tucked along the edge of the 300-acre San Joaquin Marsh Reserve, it brings together cutting-edge medicine; flexible surgical and intensive care spaces; a chef-inspired, culturally attuned menu; and a tranquil setting framed by native... “UCI Health — Irvine embodies what it means to be a modern public research university,” says UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman. “We are extending world-class, research-driven care into the community in a way that is compassionate, forward-looking and deeply rooted in this place we call home.”

Orange County’s only academic health system UCI Health is Orange County’s only academic health system, powered by UC Irvine’s world-class public research university. Working across disciplines, our physicians and teams turn discovery into impact for the more than 5.6 million people we serve, giving patients access to clinical trials, advanced therapies and multidisciplinary expertise available solely at... 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.”

The hospital will be the first of its size in the U.S. to run entirely on electricity. 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.

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