UC Irvine Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines®– Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that UCI Health has achieved the goal of treating heart failure patients according to the guidelines of care recommended by the American Heart Association/American College…
Neil Jones, MD, chief of hand surgery and professor in the UC Irvine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, was elected vice president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand at the society’s annual meeting in October. A renowned hand surgeon, Jones is…
UC Irvine Medical Center's continued commitment to nursing excellence has earned it a third designation as a Magnet®-recognized hospital. It is one of the first hospitals to receive a third recognition since the program began in 1993. A program of the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Magnet® designation recognizes nursing excellence…
When John Leggat, 55, was working in Yorba Linda in a high-pressure job with lots of travel and entertaining clients, his weight was 320 pounds and steadily increasing. He had heard about the UCI Health Weight Management Program through his company and decided to make an appointment. After a physical…
UCI Health orthopaedic surgeons Samuel Bederman, MD, PhD; Nitin N. Bhatia, MD; and Douglas Kiester, MD, PhD; were selected by Becker's Spine Review for inclusion on its list of “49 Spine Surgeons Using Robotic Technology.” Many of the spine surgeons and specialists on this list were among the first surgeons…
The University of California Board of Regents, on behalf of UCI Health, and the Board of Directors of MemorialCare Health System in Southern California, announced they are entering into an affiliation agreement to expand access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare throughout Orange County and create new, innovative models of care that…
Timely transport of a critically ill newborn from a community hospital to a regional neonatal intensive care unit may mean the difference between life and death or a life free of physical or mental impairment. Now experts at UC Irvine Medical Center, home to Orange County’s only high-risk regional perinatal-neonatal…
Donors who helped raise $39 million in private funding gathered for the grand opening of a world-class home for Orange County's only academic eye care center, the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute. The institute's 70,000-square-foot building has 34 comfortable patient exam rooms, the latest optical equipment and leading-edge outpatient surgical facilities…
IN THE NEWS: The UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute's new 70,000-square-foot building is a rarity, and not just for its 34 patient exam rooms, the latest optical equipment and leading-edge outpatient surgical facilities, the Orange County Register writes. The $39-million facility — which brings together eye care services, clinicians…
UC Irvine Medical Center has become the first hospital in Orange County to receive certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center from The Joint Commission. Reserved for those hospitals capable of receiving and treating the most complex stroke cases, the designation confirms that UCI Health meets the highest level of stroke…
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