UC San Diego Health Library | San Diego Hospital, Healthcare (2024)

FAQs

What hospitals are affiliated with UC San Diego? ›

UC San Diego Health includes three hospitals: UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and Jacobs Medical Center and Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, both in La Jolla.

Named to National Honor Roll

For the first time in the academic medical center's history, UC San Diego Health was recognized on U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals National Honor Roll. In 2023-2024, this distinction was awarded to only 22 hospitals nationwide for outstanding patient care.

UC San Diego Health completed the purchase of Alvarado Hospital for $200 million.

Undergraduate Majors and Minors

As a department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography offers degrees, minors, and more than 45 undergraduate courses covering a breadth of earth and marine sciences on a variety of different levels.

Keck Hospital of USC, a 401-bed acute care hospital, is part of Keck Medicine of USC, the University of Southern California's medical enterprise. Its internationally renowned physicians care for patients, teach and conduct research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the region's first medical school.

The number 1 hospitals in California are Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, UCLA Medical Center, UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center and UC San Diego Health-La Jolla and Hillcrest Hospitals.

Mayo Clinic ranked No. 1 'World's Best Hospital' by Newsweek for sixth straight year - Mayo Clinic News Network.

Scripps Mercy Hospital is a private Catholic hospital located in San Diego, California. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest hospital in San Diego County and has campuses in Chula Vista and Hillcrest.

Did UCSD buy Tri City hospital? ›

Under the partnership, UC San Diego Health will take over Tri-City's property, debt and staff, and will form a new, nine-member governing board comprised of two appointees from the District Board, two members from the Tri-City medical staff and five members appointed by the UC San Diego Health Executive Governing Board ...

UC San Diego is considered a Public Ivy. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". UC San Diego faculty, researchers, and alumni have won 27 Nobel Prizes as well as 3 Fields Medals, 8 National Medals of Science, 8 MacArthur Fellowships, and 3 Pulitzer Prizes.

In 2001, physicians and leadership of the University of California, San Diego, Rady Children's, and Children's Specialists of San Diego unified pediatric patient care, research, education and community service programs, creating a university-affiliated children's health system to serve the region.

San Diego's Best Hospital

We're ranked the #1 hospital system in San Diego for 2023-24 by U.S. News & World Report. And we're among only 22 nationwide to make Honor Roll for outstanding patient care. We also rank among the nation's best in 10 medical and surgical specialties.

UCLA Health comprises four hospitals on two campuses: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and the UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital on the university's main campus in the Westwood area of Los Angeles; and UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.

UC's six health systems, which include five academic medical centers, form a more than $14 billion enterprise providing nationally ranked care. Our medical centers specialize in complex care.