Tag: UCI Medical Center

$1.3 Billion UC Irvine Medical Campus Moves Toward 2025 Completion

IRVINE, Calif.—Hundreds of construction and architectural specialists paused for a catered barbeque lunch July 13 to celebrate progress on a “state of the art” all-electrical new University of California–Irvine (UCI) medical facility set to be completed by January of 2025. The $1.3 billion-dollar carbon neutral medical center, located at Jamboree Road and Birch Street, will…


UCI Medical Workers Commemorate National Gun Violence Awareness Day

ORANGE, Calif.—Days after a shooter took the lives of two physicians at a hospital in Oklahoma, doctors and hospital staff wearing orange T-shirts gathered outside the University of California–Irvine (UCI) Medical Center on June 3 to commemorate National Gun Violence Awareness Day. “Today, we want to remember those that have been hurt or killed by…


Man Arrested, Suspected of Stealing Fire Truck in Orange County

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Police have arrested a person suspected of stealing a fire truck and traveling through several cities before being detained in Anaheim Dec. 21. Truck 85 was stolen from The University of California–Irvine Medical Center in Orange at approximately 1:40 a.m. while paramedics were taking a patient to the hospital, said Capt. Greg Barta of the Orange County Fire…


University of California—Irvine Medical Center Erects Mobile Field Hospitals

ORANGE, Calif.—The University of California—Irvine (UCI) Medical Center opened a network of field hospital rooms Dec. 29 in the center’s parking lot due to Orange County’s spike in COVID-19 cases. The field units, which are made up of tent-like materials, are licensed to treat up to 40 patients outside the main hospital. There were 22…