Pauline and Stanley Foster Pavilion for Cancer Care
Jacobs Medical Center will be a vital resource for those fighting cancer , thanks to a generous charitable contribution made by the late Pauline Foster in honor of her husband and brother , both of whom lost their lives to the disease .
The new Pauline and Stanley Foster Pavilion for Cancer Care will nearly double UC San Diego Health ’ s capacity for inpatient cancer care and offer the perfect complement to Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health , the region ’ s only National Cancer Institutedesignated Comprehensive Cancer Center .
“ Patients will have access to targeted cancer therapies ,” says Brenner . “ For the first time , patients with cancer will receive an integrated , multidisciplinary approach in a beautiful , state-of-the-art facility .”
The sixth floor , home to the UC San Diego Health and Sharp HealthCare joint Blood and Marrow Transplant ( BMT ) Program , illustrates how every aspect of the medical center has been designed with the patient in mind . Treatments for illnesses like leukemia can leave patients immunosuppressed and susceptible to disease for weeks , or longer . For many , this means time spent in a hospital room , largely isolated , with little ability to move or maintain any sense of home .
The BMT unit has a specially designed full-floor aseptic air filtration system that gives immunocompromised patients freedom of movement to leave their room . With the threat of illness largely mitigated , patients will be able to utilize a kitchen , workout room and social spaces on the floor to maintain a sense of connection that contributes to the healing process .
“ I felt that the best thing I could do would be to make sure that other people had … the opportunity to have the kind of care that would help , and hopefully cure them .”
– Pauline Foster
Rady Pavilion for Women and Infants
“ My father was an OB / GYN . … When a woman would come in and say , ‘ thank you doctor , you saved my life ,’ my father said it was like making a million dollars .”
– Ernest Rady
UC San Diego Health has always provided outstanding obstetric and infant care . Now , thanks to the philanthropic generosity of Evelyn and Ernest Rady , that tradition will be strengthened and enhanced to provide the very best care for San Diego ’ s newest families and tiniest patients within the Rady Pavilion for Women and Infants .
“ Jacobs Medical Center will allow us to offer women more choices in an advanced specialty care center , designed with the mother and infant in mind ,” said Charles Nager , MD , chair of the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine .
Featuring labor and delivery rooms , cesarean section delivery rooms and a birth center staffed by midwives , women and infant services at Jacobs Medical Center will offer new mothers more options to have the kind of birthing experience they want , complete with expansive views of the region and a gourmet inpatient meal service . There is also a playroom for young children visiting new siblings .
And to meet the unique needs of our tiniest patients , the center ’ s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ( NICU ) will feature 52 private rooms . The center is specifically designed to ensure that premature and full-term infants with urgent medical needs receive the best possible care and the most advanced technology when it is needed most .
“ Physicians and researchers at UC San Diego have collaborated to create and advance technologies to benefit our patients ,” said Nager . “ One example is epidermal electronics — wearable electronics that can be placed on an infant noninvasively to monitor anything from brain waves to skin perfusion .”
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