UC San Diego Health

Health System with 3 hospitals across 1 state

Health System Overview

Health SystemUC San Diego Health
Total Hospitals3
Commercial/Acute Hospitals3
Total Beds1034
Commercial/Acute Beds1034
HeadquartersSan Diego, CA
Websitehealth.ucsd.edu

Hospitals by Type

Acute Care Hospital
3 hospitals
100% of health system

Teaching Status

33%
Teaching
Teaching Hospitals: 1
Non-Teaching Hospitals: 2
Teaching hospitals serve as educational institutions for medical professionals while providing patient care.

Hospital Locations

Hospitals in this Health System

HospitalTypeBedsTeachingRecently Joined
UC San Diego Medical Center, HillcrestAcute Care Hospital600YesNo
El Centro Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospital153NoNo
UC San Diego Health East Campus Medical CenterAcute Care Hospital281NoYes

Recent News

Jun 10, 2025
A manuscript titled “Answering real-world clinical questions using large language model, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic systems” was published in Digital Health. The authors affiliations include Atropos Health, Stanford University, The Hospital for Sick Children, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and the University of California, San Diego. The study explored the use of large language models (LLMs) to address the challenges in practicing evidence-based medicine when relevant data is scarce or difficult to contextualize for individual patients. The researchers submitted 50 clinical questions to five different LLM-based systems, including OpenEvidence (using retrieval-augmented generation), ChatRWD (using an LLM as an interface to a data extraction and analysis pipeline), and three general-purpose LLMs (ChatGPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro). Nine independent physicians evaluated the responses for relevance, quality of supporting evidence, and actionability. Key conclusions indicated that general-purpose LLMs rarely provided relevant, evidence-based answers, while the retrieval-augmented generation-based LLM performed well when existing data was available. Only the agentic ChatRWD was capable of providing actionable answers when pre-existing studies were lacking, suggesting that synergistic systems combining RAG-based evidence summarization and agentic generation of novel evidence could enhance the availability of pertinent evidence for patient care.

Executive Leadership

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