Second cancer center in Orange County triples space for latest, most innovative treatments
August 15, 2024
The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building at UCI Health — Irvine is a state-of-the-art facility designed to provide seamless and innovative care.
IN THE NEWS: The opening of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building in July marks the completion of the second phase of the $1.3 billion UCI Health ― Irvine medical campus.
The state-of-the-art facility triples the space of the flagship UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCI Medical Center in Orange. It also brings groundbreaking cancer treatments closer to the residents of south county, as UCI Health hematologist-oncologist Dr. Emad Elquza explains to the Orange County Business Journal.
“With us opening in Irvine, patients who are diagnosed with cancer in Orange County are going to be able to find the latest, most innovative treatment, including clinical studies that can save their lives.
“We felt that the patients of Orange County needed a cancer center like ours in their backyard so they can have these treatments closer to home.”
Elquza is the medical director and physician in chief of the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also an associate professor in the Division of Hematology-Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. His research interests include neoadjuvant therapy and the study of stem cell mobilization in patients treated with bone marrow transplantation.
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About UCI Health — Irvine
UCI Health — Irvine, a new medical complex at the north end of the UC Irvine campus, is bringing unparalleled expertise and the finest evidence-based care that only an academic health system can offer to the communities of coastal and south Orange County. As part of UCI Health — which includes the flagship UCI Medical Center in Orange, Orange County’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and multiple outpatient care locations — the new 1.2 million-square-foot campus will offer key clinical programs in oncology, digestive health, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics and spine surgery. The nation’s first medical center powered by an all-electric central utilities plant, UCI Health — Irvine is home to the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care, a five-story, 168,000-square-foot medical facility offering multidisciplinary specialty care for children and adults, urgent care services, the Center for Children’s Health and the UCI Health Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building, a five-story, 225,000-square-foot structure. Coming in 2025: a seven-story, 350,000-square-foot, acute care hospital and emergency department.
