IR/PS Supporters, Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Contributes to UCSD
UCSD Health System Breaks Ground on Jacobs Medical Center
04/10/2012
Michelle Mowad,
La Jolla Patch
After several years of planning, the UC San Diego Health System broke ground Monday on its $670 million new medical center.
The Jacobs Medical Center will include four hospitals in one complex: the existing Thornton Hospital on Campus Point Drive, plus the three new hospitals–Hospital for Cancer Care, Hospital for Women and Infants, and the Hospital for Advanced Surgery.
A few hundred supporters including, Mayor Jerry Sanders, UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, and Joan and Irwin Jacobs came out for the groundbreaking at the La Jolla site besides Thornton Hospital. The Jacobs gave a $75 million gift to UC San Diego Health System to assist in building the new medication center.
