The second annual UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge to benefit lifesaving research at the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center will be held Saturday, May 19, 2018 at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, Calif. Participants will ride, run, walk or volunteer to help us move one step closer toward…
The UCI Health Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check mark for Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Centers. This is the third time UCI Health has earned the designation since the two-year Comprehensive Stroke Centers…
Three intensive care units at UC Irvine Medical Center have received the silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence, a prestigious recognition of caregivers who successfully adhere to the highest standards of acute and critical care nursing. Bestowed upon UCI’s neurosciences, cardiac care and medical intensive care units by the American Association…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have selected UCI Health to participate in the federal government’s Medicare Shared Savings Program as an accountable care organization. “As part of the program, UCI Health will work with CMS to provide quality, coordinated care to our Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries,” said Howard…
IN THE NEWS: UCI Health infectious disease expert Shruti Gohil, MD, spoke to the Orange County Register about the flu vaccination in an article about the flu complications that led to death of a local woman. It’s an unusually vicious season – a period of time that typically peaks between…
IN THE NEWS: USA Today spoke with UCI Health disaster medicine expert Carl Schultz, MD, about the affect the numerous natural disasters and human-caused crises had on the nation’s hospitals: America’s hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017… Across the country, natural disasters have become more…
Josephine Herbert Gleis, a longtime friend of UCI, has passed away at the age of 105. Her generous gifts to the university changed lives in the arts, neurology, and perhaps most significantly, vision health and research. In 2007, Mrs. Gleis and her son, Allergan founder Gavin Herbert, made the initial…
IN THE NEWS: Nathan Wong, PhD, professor of medicine and director of the UCI Health Heart Disease Prevention Program, discusses heart health and managing diabetes with EverydayHealth.com: [E]veryone needs to get physical activity — and it’s even more important when you have diabetes, which can also affect your heart. “What’s…
Ninety UCI Health physician are listed among the Best Doctors in America® for 2017-2018, an honor given to just 5 percent of U.S. doctors in a national survey of their peers. UCI Health has more physicians trusted by other doctors than any other medical group in Orange County and the…
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