The University of California Irvine Health is constructing a $1.3 billion medical campus that could bring thousands of new jobs to the community, the Orange County Business Journal reported May 8.
Health system leaders are calling the project the nation's first all-electric hospital. The 13.5-acre complex will include a 45,000-square-foot central utility plant, which will use solar panels to fuel the buildings: a five-story center for advanced care, a five-story cancer center and ambulatory care building, and a seven-story hospital.
Between construction and healthcare needs, the project could create 2,500 new jobs.
The complex is expected to wrap in 32 months and is "moving along nicely," Chad Lefteris, the health system's CEO, told the Journal.