UC Davis Medical Center

UC Davis Medical Center
University of California
Geography
Location	2315 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, California, United States
Organization
Care system	Private, Medicaid, Medicare
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University of California, Davis
Services
Emergency department	level I trauma center (both adult and pediatric)
Beds	646
Helipad	(FAA LID: 3CL0)
History
Opened	1973 (purchased from County of Sacramento)
Links
Website	health.ucdavis.edu/medicalcenter
Lists	Hospitals in California

UC Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) is part of UC Davis Health and a major academic health center located in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the University of California as part of its University of California, Davis campus. The medical center sits on a 142-acre (57 ha) campus (often referred to as the Sacramento Campus to distinguish it from the main campus in nearby Davis) located between the Elmhurst, Tahoe Park, and Oak Park residential neighborhoods. The site incorporates the land and some of the buildings of the former Sacramento Medical Center (which was acquired from the County of Sacramento in 1973) as well as much of the land (and two buildings) previously occupied by the California State Fair until its 1967 move to a new location.

The 646-bed hospital serves as key referral center for a 65,000-square-mile (170,000 km²) area that includes 33 counties and 6 million residents.^[1] It operates inland Northern California's only level I trauma center for both adult and pediatric emergencies and maintains a staff of specialists and researchers in more than 150 areas of health care.^[2]

UC Davis Medical Center ranked among the nation's top hospitals for 2020–21 in 9 adult medical specialties and 4 children's medical specialties, and it is the 6th best hospital in California, according to an annual U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals survey published in July 2020.^[3]

The medical center is the primary teaching hospital affiliated with the UC Davis School of Medicine. The hospital, medical school, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and UC Davis Medical Group^[4] together comprise UC Davis Health, a brand of the nearby University of California, Davis.