UC Irvine health for me is home.
I'm very proud to be a member the UC Irvine team.
Our faculty here are outstanding, our students are tremendous,
and everybody else--the support staff, nursing--are among the best I've ever
worked with.
I have never been at a place where there's more collaborative spirit.
And for somebody who likes to innovate, this is the place to be.
We've been able to attract physicians with national and international
reputations and continue to do so,
so the opportunities for leading
cutting-edge research is right here at UC Irvine Health.
After I finished my training at the Cleveland Clinic in neurosurgery, I had several options as to where I could go.
And in the end, I decided to
come to UC Irvine because I thought that we could really deliver world-class care here.
Our strengths are cutting-edge technology, technology that's not readily
available elsewhere,
and also the ability to care for the sickest and the most ill.
I wouldn't be here today. They wouldn't have found
this tumor and I'd be dead.
When patients come to me, they say that they're frustrated and depressed
because they've been told 'no' at many other institutions.
But because of what we have available here, both in
terms of our technology and the techniques that we have,
we are able to offer them hope.
Working at UC Irvine Health,
I can empower my patients.
Now I have this. I'm okay with it.
I still think I look beautiful.
Patients are not diseases. Patients are people.
I love being a part of UC Irvine health because it allows me to
treat all of our patients as though they are family.
And while we provide extraordinary expertise for a specific problem,
we never forget the whole patient.
The mission of UC Irvine Health is to Discover.
Teach. and Heal. And the discovery part is that we generate new knowledge
about the causes and treatment and prevention of disease.
Looking for new innovation, new technology;
looking for just a new way of looking at things. In the teach part,
we are training the next generation of healthcare providers.
Those residents and fellows are incredibly dedicated young physicians
who are very anxious, not only to learn, but to serve.
And in the heal part, we deliver outstanding, compassionate,
multi-disciplinary care
across the entire spectrum. Which makes this a world-class
academic medical center and true center of excellence.
UC Irvine Health is such a great place
to be a nurse. We are a magnet nursing facility
and it means that we're the best of the best.
We really care about every patient here at UC Irvine Health, no matter
how large we get. UC Irvine Health,
over the last few years, has really transformed itself.
People recognize UC Irvine Health now as
a go-to place for your healthcare. No longer are people traveling
long distances to obtain the kinds of services that they now realize
are here, right in their own backyard. Not just that our main
hospital campus in Orange, but in Irvine, in Tustin,
in Anaheim, and throughout the region. When I think
about the future of UC Irvine Health, I know it's very bright. UC Irvine Health
will continue to grow, and flourish,
and thrive. Accelerate the impact
of our institution on our community, and the next decade, with the right support,
should bring UC Irvine Health to new heights never before even imagined.
I have a second chance at life
because of the doctors here at UC Irvine.