CEO, UCI HEALTH, IRVINE
Runs OC’s only academic medical center and all clinical and patient-serving operations. Also heads the overall UCI Health system, which includes Orange’s UCI Medical Center, the area’s largest hospital, and more than a dozen outpatient research and specialty care centers throughout Orange County and portions of Riverside County. Overseeing one of larger healthcare construction projects in the area.
THEN: UCI Medical Center retained its No. 1 position among OC’s largest hospitals this year, with a 14% growth to $1.4B in net patient revenue. “Last year, we delayed care and we said don’t come to hospitals,” Lefteris told the Business Journal. “This year, we’re seeing a lot of catch-up between the surges. We are busier than ever. There’s this pent-up demand.”
NOW: Construction underway for $1.3B medical complex on land the school owns at the corner of Jamboree Road and Birch Street. Dubbed the UCI Medical Center-Irvine, project to include a 144-bed acute care hospital with an emergency room, an outpatient Center for Advanced Care for primary and specialty health services, a Center for Children’s Health, and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care building.
FUTURE: All facilities, spanning about 800,000 square feet combined, are expected to receive patients in 2025.
IN THEIR WORDS: The new center in Irvine “will be a full-service academic medical complex, bringing a broad range of the most advanced healthcare services to coastal and southern Orange County, including access to the hundreds of clinical trials underway at UCI Health.”
