UCI Health continues to be an innovation leader. In a campuswide interdisciplinary endeavor this year, UCI launched the Institute for Precision Health, which brings a multifaceted, integrated approach to healthcare. Accompanying the creation of the IPH is the opening of the spectacular new homes for the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, which is advancing UCI Health Science’s ability to advance integrative approaches to healthcare. Once again, UCI Health was chosen among the best hospitals in the U.S., and its physicians continue to receive praise as the finest in Orange County. Upcoming will be a gleam new healthcare center on the UCI campus. The $1.3 billion UCI Health-Irvine complex will include the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care, the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care Center and a 144-bed acute-care hospital with an emergency department. All will be open by 2025.

Here are a few highlights:

• Joe C. Wen and family donate $20 million to support the new UCI Health Center for Advanced Care
• Precision health perspectives
• New Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute on UCI campus advances whole-person care
• UCI Health clinician named Orange County Physician of the Year
• The sleep detectives: UCI Health sleep center treats slumber disorders of every stripe
• Clinical trials offer hope for ALS patients
• Rare spine surgery restores elite athlete’s mobility
• Beating the odds: Help for advanced gastrointestinal cancers
• UCI Health among America’s Best Hospitals for 22nd consecutive year
• UCI Health renewed as Orange County’s only federally designated comprehensive cancer center
• UCI Health intensive care units honored with Beacon Award for Excellence