Points of Distinction 2025

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Points of Distinc tion 2025

Grounded in equity, we provide unparalleled care across California, transforming lives and communities. Our teams research and develop trailblazing therapies and technologies; educate and prepare a future-ready workforce; and drive excellence into all we do as we create

tomorrow’s health care today.

Our work includes:

■ Acting as a crucial specialty and subspecialty care resource for inland Northern California

■ Providing the highest-level trauma care for our region

■ Advancing diagnosis, treatment and prevention through research

■ Educating providers and the health care leaders of the future

■ Training and supporting rural health providers

■ Ensuring safety net support for health care in urban and rural areas

Our academic health system includes:

■ UC Davis Medical Center

■ UC Davis School of Medicine

■ Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis

■ UC Davis Children’s Hospital

■ UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

■ UC Davis Health Primary Care

■ UC Davis MIND Institute

■ UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital

■ Community partnerships with dozens of organizations, including dozens of community hospitals and health providers across our 33-county Northern California service area, to improve levels of patient care everywhere

An

enlightened employer:

■ No. 19 on the 2025 Forbes list of America’s Best Large Employers (No. 6 in the Healthcare and Social Services category), and No. 20 on the 2024 Forbes list of California’s best employers (No. 1 in the Healthcare and Social Services category)

■ A Forbes Best Employer for Diversity 2025, and one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025

■ One of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 for large companies, and a Forbes Best Employer for Women 2025

■ One of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Parents and Families 2025

■ Perennially named an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader in Healthcare Equality Index rankings, and a Newsweek America’s Greatest Workplaces for LGBTQ+ 2025

■ One of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024

■ One of Forbes’ America’s Dream Employers for 2025

Nationally renowned UC Davis Medical Center is a leading referral center for the most seriously injured or ill patients and the most medically complex cases. It is nationally ranked in six adult and five pediatric specialty areas.

Ranked among the nation’s top 50 hospitals in cardiology, heart & vascular surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ENT, geriatrics, neurology & neurosurgery, and pulmonology & lung surgery

Ranked among the nation’s top 50 children’s hospitals in nephrology, neonatology, orthopedics*, pulmonology & lung surgery, and behavioral health

High-performing in aortic valve surgery, acute kidney failure, back surgery (spinal fusion), cancer, colon cancer surgery, COPD, diabetes, gastroenterology & GI surgery, gynecological cancer surgery, heart arrhythmia, heart failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, orthopedics, pacemaker implantation, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), and urology.

Among the top 2% of U.S. hospitals for overall clinical performance by Healthgrades a level IV NICU

(the highest possible rating)

Among the nation’s best hospitals for adults and children, one of the top 10 hospitals in California, and the #1 hospital in Sacramento for adult care

The only level I trauma center for both adult and pediatric emergencies in inland Northern California

Building for the future, in Sacramento and beyond:

■ New California Tower, with single rooms and more critical-care adaptability

■ New 48X Surgery Complex, to boost capacity and technology

■ Expanding in fast-growing Folsom and Elk Grove, for care closer to home

■ Expanded C Street Clinic, for enhanced behavioral health care

■ New UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital, to optimize recovery

■ New Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute, with expanded research and care capabilities

The West Coast’s first American College of Surgeons-verified level I Children’s Surgery Center

Friendly USA A Baby-Friendly Hospital

The nation’s highest recognition for nursing excellence

Promoting healthier aging:

Age-Friendly Health System Committed to Care Excellence designations:

■ Medical Center (inpatient)

■ Healthy Aging Clinic (outpatient)

■ Emergency Department

■ Plus highest-level Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation

Hospital and patient statistics

651 Licensed beds

93,944 ER visits

1,085,796 Clinic/office visits

35,020 Admissions*

For year ending Dec. 31, 2024 *Inpatient admissions; does not include 12,947 observation days

Philanthropy impact

The Fruit & Vegetable Foundation pledged $10 million to create the UC Davis Nutrition for Transformative Healthcare Program and the Dr. Douglas S.L. Howard Endowed Chair in the Department of Surgery

PATIENT CARE

An anonymous estate gift of $360,000 will support the Children’s Hospital

Innovative UC Davis interprofessional education gives the health care workforce of tomorrow the skills and values needed to lead change and improve health for all.

Among the nation’s best graduate schools

The UC Davis School of Medicine ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report in 2025, including Tier 1 (top) category for primary care, Tier 2 for research, and #17 for most graduates practicing in primary care.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing also ranks among the nation’s best, with U.S. News ranking the school’s Master’s Entry Program in Nursing as #30 for 2025 (tie). The Master of Health Services – Physician Assistant (P.A.) Studies Degree Program placed #35 (tie).

The Center for Health and Technology offers telehealth education programs for community providers, students and residents, with collaborations around specific conditions

Innovative training prepares future health providers to treat underserved communities:

■ Urban and rural areas

■ California’s Central Valley

■ California’s tribal communities

■ By closing the primary care gap

Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing

First in UC system to offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice — Nurse Anesthesia Degree Program to address a workforce challenge in California.

Faculty, staff & students

19,635

Total workforce Includes: 15,319 Staff

1,325 Faculty*

1,063 Residents and fellows

1,346 Students

1,356 Physicians**

4,240 Nurses

For more than 40 years, UC Davis health care students have volunteered countless hours in free community clinics delivering care for underserved populations

2024 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for School of Medicine & School of Nursing

Philanthropy impact

Daniel and Sharon Riggs pledged $700,000 through their estate to support the School of Medicine’s Microbiology Graduate Group

EDUCATION

UC Davis Health research includes clinical, translational and basic-science studies, with an emphasis on collaboration and improving health for people, communities and entire populations.

Confronting major health threats

■ One of 50+ U.S. cancer centers designated “comprehensive” by the National Cancer Institute, and part of the University of California’s Cancer Consortium, drawing on the entire UC system to advance care

■ Home to the first state-funded center for firearm violence research

■ Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (a congressionally designated NIH Center of Excellence), and members of California’s Alzheimer’s Disease Task Force

■ Home to the School of Nursing’s Family Caregiving Institute

UC Davis School of Medicine is a key partner in Aggie Square, a 1 millionsquare-foot center for public-private research.

The Clinical and Translational Science

Center helps advance lab findings into treatments, engage communities in research, and educate the next generation of clinicians and scientists

Improving health for all:

■ Center for Reducing Health Disparities

■ Institute for Regenerative Cures

■ MIND Institute

■ Center for Precision Medicine

■ Center for Professional Practice of Nursing

■ Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

■ Center for Health and Technology

60 currently active cell and gene therapy clinical trials through the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures and colleagues at UC Davis Health

Research funding in 2024

$400.3 million

$210 million

Home to the CuRe Trial, the world’s first stem cell clinical trial in utero for spina bifida in external research funding in National Institutes of Health funding

■ ranked 33rd in the U.S.

■ 8 departments ranked in top 20 nationally in their fields (2 of them in top 10)

Researchers at the Family Caregiving Institute at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing evaluate services to expand and improve California’s Caregiver Resource Centers

Philanthropy impact

The School of Medicine received a $7.7 million anonymous bequest to support violence prevention research

The Thomas P. Raley Foundation gave $500,000 to support the DICE Method in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Alzheimer’s disease research

Margaret and David Steward gave $500,000 to support School of Medicine junior faculty research

DISCOVERY

UC Davis Health actively engages with the diverse communities it serves in Sacramento, Northern California and beyond.

The UC Davis Health Cancer Care Network unites multiple cancer centers to offer patients leading-edge care in their own communities

Expanded virtual care partnerships with many community and regional hospitals increase access to higher levels of care in rural areas

A unique farm-to-fork food service program prioritizes nutritious local ingredients and sustainability, for individual and community health Improving care and access through technology

■ Using artificial intelligence to enhance disease screening and prediction

■ Medical extended reality and 3D printing to improve complex surgeries

■ Multiple collaborations and programs to advance remote care through wearable devices

■ UC Davis-developed biophotonic imaging tools for real-time surgical guidance

Earned an Emerald Award from Practice Greenhealth in 2025 as a top-20% hospital for environmental sustainability programs and performance

For more than a decade, a “Most Wired” health system for excellence in using technology to improve care delivery Innovative partnerships with many Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) provide a comprehensive mix of primary care, specialty care and behavioral health to underserved patients across the region

Home of the UC Psychiatric

Mental Health Nurse

Practitioner Certificate Program, a collaborative between four UC nursing schools to expand mental health care access

Youth violence intervention and traffic safety education through our Injury and Violence Prevention Program

Philanthropy impact

Funds raised through Children’s Miracle Network community campaigns allowed our hospital to award $509,872 in internal grants to support research projects, equipment, innovations in patient care, and program support at UC Davis Children's Hospital

COMMUNITY

Leadership

Bruce Lee Hall, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.

Interim Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences and Chief Clinical Officer

Debbie Aizenberg, M.D., M.B.A.

Chief Physician Executive, UC Davis Medical Group and Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Care, UC Davis Health

Ron Amodeo, M.A.

Chief Strategy Officer

Kimberly Bleichner-Jones, M.B.A., F.A.C.H.E.

Interim Chief Operating Officer

Stephen J. Cavanagh, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.

Dean, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing

Michael Condrin, M.B.A.

Interim Chief Executive Officer for UC Davis Health

John Cook

Associate Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Department

Ryan Davis, J.D., LL.M. Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer

Jennifer Doll, CPA, M.P.A. Chief Financial Officer

Nick Eversole, M.B.A.

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences and Chief of Staff

Joseph M. Galante, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S. Chief Medical Officer, UC Davis Medical Center

Tammy Kenber, M.S. Chief Human Resources Officer

Susan Murin, M.D., M.Sc., M.B.A. Dean, School of Medicine

Anna Orlowski Chief Counsel

Chong Porter

Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Development and Alumni Relations

Steve Telliano, M.A.

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Strategic Communications

Hendry Ton, M.D., M.S.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Christine Williams, R.N., M.S., C.N.S. Chief Nursing Executive

New 48X Surgery Complex

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