| UC Davis Medical Center | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | 2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, California, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Private, Medicaid, Medicare |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of California, Davis |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 645 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1852 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medicalcenter |
| Lists | Hospitals in California |
UC Davis Medical Center is a private, major academic health center located in Sacramento, California.
The 645-bed hospital serves as key referral center for a 65,000-square-mile (170,000 km2) area that includes 33 counties and 6 million residents.[1] It operates inland Northern California’s only level I trauma center and maintains a staff of specialists and researchers in more than 150 areas of health care.[2]
In 2010 UC Davis Medical Center earned a Leapfrog Top Hospital award for ranking among the top 65 of 1,200 U.S. hospitals participating in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, a measurement of hospital quality, safety and efficiency practices.[3]
The medical center is the primary teaching hospital affiliated with the UC Davis School of Medicine. The hospital, medical school, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and UC Davis Medical Group together comprise the UC Davis Health System.
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UC Davis Medical Center is verified as both a level I trauma center and a level I pediatric trauma center by the American College of Surgeons.[4][5] Of the 112 level I trauma centers in the United States, less than 20 are verified for both adults and pediatrics.[6]
UC Davis functions as California's only level I trauma center north of San Francisco and is historically among the nation’s busiest. In 2008, UC Davis admitted more than twice the amount of trauma patients required to achieve level I status.[6]
The UC Davis Burn Center collaborates with neighboring Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California hospital to create a regional burn treatment center. As part of their collaboration, UC Davis Medical Center cares for adult burn patients and Shriners for children. With close to 600 admissions per year, the combined burn programs make up one of the busiest five to ten burn centers in the nation.[7] Specialists also research and develop model treatments and guidelines for improving burn care and recovery.
The center is the only in inland Northern California and the Central Valley verified by the American Burn Association.[8] The review program is designed to verify a burn center's resources that are required for the provision of optimal care to burn patients from the time of injury through rehabilitation. Of 125 hospitals with burn centers in the United States, less than half are verified.[9]
Community firefighters partnered with UC Davis in 1972 to establish the UC Davis Regional Burn Center after an airplane crash at a Sacramento ice cream parlor killed 22 people and severely burned dozens. In 2005 the Firefighters Burn Institute donated $1 million to help build a new, larger center that will consolidate services in a single location.[10]
UC Davis Medical Center is certified as an advanced primary stroke center by The Joint Commission, signifying that services have the critical elements to achieve long-term success in improving outcomes for stroke patients. Certification is based on recommendations from the Brain Attack Coalition, and the American Stroke Association.[11][12]
As part of UC Davis Health System, UC Davis Medical Center is closely linked to clinical and research centers in several areas of advanced medicine.
The UC Davis Cancer Center is one of two cancer centers in Northern California designated by the National Cancer Institute for ability to contribute to the nation’s cancer research.[13] The center offers patients access to more than 150 clinical trials at any given time through a research program that includes more than 280 scientists. It was the first major cancer center to establish a formal research partnership with a national laboratory.[14]
The UC Davis Vascular Center provides care for patients with atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries" and other vascular problems, such as aneurysms, vein disorders and less common vascular conditions. A major emphasis is coordinating care among the multiple physicians who typically provide some aspect of care for patients with atherosclerosis. Participating specialties include vascular and cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, interventional radiology, endocrinology and nephrology. UC Davis vascular surgeons have hosted live-case demonstrations for thousands of colleagues at national and international conferences.[15][16]
UC Davis MIND Institute scientists research treatments, causes and cures for autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, fragile X syndrome, Tourette syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The center has a staff of more than 250 and is home to, or a major participant in, several major autism studies that are among the first or largest of their kind.[17][18]
UC Davis plays a leading role in regenerative medicine with nearly 150 scientists working on stem cell-related research projects in Davis and Sacramento.[19] The UC Davis Stem Cell Program is near the top of the list of institutions funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state's stem cell agency.[20]
The new UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures includes Northern California's largest academic Good Manufacturing Practice laboratory, a federally certified facility that allows researchers to conduct clinical trials with patients. UC Davis researchers have treated four patients with adult stem cells to repair tissues damaged by heart attacks, and are working toward clinical trials to explore potential treatments for Huntington’s disease, vision impairment and peripheral vascular disease.[21]
UC Davis Children’s Hospital serves infants, children and adolescents with primary, subspecialty and critical-care. The 110-bed children's hospital includes more than 120 physicians in 33 subspecialties, a 49-bed neonatal intensive care unit and a 24-bed pediatric intensive care unit. The children’s hospital has more than 74,000 clinic/hospital visits and 13,000 emergency room visits each year.
UC Davis uses telehealth and telemedicine to provide direct clinical care to patients at a distance, giving clinics and hospitals throughout the state access to more than 40 medical specialties not readily available in most smaller communities. Since it was established in 1996, UC Davis’ telemedicine program has conducted more than 20,000 telehealth consultations.
UC Davis Health System also helps manage the Federal Communications Commission-funded California Telehealth Network, which provides broadband connections linking hundreds of primary-care sites, tribal clinics, rural hospitals and teaching hospitals.[22]
On Christmas morning 2008, a UC Davis specialist helped save the life of a boy in a Colusa hospital using telemedicine technology from his own living room, 75 miles (121 km) away.[23]
The health system is building a 52,000-square-foot (4,800 m2) California Telehealth Resource Center to act as a hub for education, training, and clinical care through technology-enabled consultation rooms. The center is being financed through Proposition 1D funding, which California voters approved in 2006.
Completed in 2010, UC Davis Medical Center’s Surgery and Emergency Services Pavilion project added 472,000-square-feet (43,900 m2) for surgery, trauma, emergency and burn services, including a new emergency room, new operating rooms, a neurosurgical intensive-care unit, cardiology services, pathology laboratory support, radiology services, a 12-bed burn unit and a new cafeteria.[24]
The pavilion meets a combined need to comply with state seismic safety standards and to add more space and beds for programs currently in undersized, inadequate facilities. Senate Bill 1953 requires all California acute-care hospitals to meet new seismic safety standards.[25] The medical center must also accommodate an increasing demand for inpatient services through additional beds and operating rooms. On occasion, the hospital has been forced to turn away all but the most seriously ill and injured patients because it is full.[25]
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