Hillcrest Medical Center
The UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest (32°45′16″N 117°09′58″W / 32.75442°N 117.166009°W / 32.75442; -117.166009), is the primary hospital for the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
The region's only academic medical center offers both primary care and specialized services, including a full range of surgery, diagnosis and management of genetic disease, neurology, orthopedics, oncology, and the Sleep Medicine Center.
The recently renovated 386-bed hospital at UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest, is also the primary site for such regional services as the Comprehensive Organ Transplant Program, Bone Marrow Transplantation, San Diego Regional Burn Center, Infant Special Care Center (NICU), UCSD's Birth Center, San Diego County's only academic Level One Trauma Center, and the National Institutes of Health-designated Clinical Research Center.
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