San Diego
A committee of the University of California Board of Regents has affirmed the board’s preliminary support for plans to build a 120-bed hospital on the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla, university officials said Friday.
At a meeting in Los Angeles Thursday, UCSD Chancellor Richard Atkinson presented the committee on hospital governance with a 40-page proposal detailing plans to construct the medical-surgical facility on 40 acres of UCSD-owned land east of Interstate 5.
“This was just an effort to let them know what stage we are in and to answer any questions they had,” Leslie Franz, a spokeswoman for UCSD School of Medicine, said Friday. “There were no surprises. It went very smoothly.”
As a result of the meeting, Franz said, “We’re going to proceed with our planning.”
The hospital, which would not be built before the early 1990s, is described as a “satellite” of UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. The two facilities would operate under a common license and management, with the 120 beds being transferred from Hillcrest to the new hospital.
UCSD officials hope the proposed hospital will ease overcrowding at UCSD Medical Center, assure the medical center’s financial health by attracting more affluent patients, and improve clinical training of doctors at the university.
They stress that there will be full public discussion of the proposal before it is presented to the regents for any formal action or approval.
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