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  • August 15, 2025

    ‘A beacon for our community’: UC Davis Health unveils Folsom Medical Care Clinic

    UC Davis Health has unveiled its new Folsom facility, which offers primary and specialty care and new services, including infusion, MRI and bone density scans.

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  • June 25, 2025

    UC Davis Health celebrates grand opening for 48X Complex

    The 48X Complex is a state-of-the-art outpatient surgery center that addresses the growing demand for same-day or overnight surgical services.

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  • March 13, 2025

    UC Davis Health on track to open 1 million square feet in 2025

    This unparalleled construction program will create hundreds more jobs, modernize and replace aging facilities, attract new research partners, and allow us to better meet our patients' needs in the future.

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  • January 3, 2024

    Cooperative compliance: UC Davis Health joint-AHJs

    At UC Davis Health, the governing approval to move facility projects forward is shared between three entities: the Fire Marshal’s Office, FP&D’s Building Department and the California Department of Health Care Access and Information. 

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  • December 18, 2024

    UC Davis Health’s pathway to decarbonization

    The UC Board of Regents has approved the Central Utility Plant Expansion (CUPx) project, a critical initiative to support the growth of the UC Davis Health campus and advance efforts to reduce fossil fuel use.

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  • August 16, 2024

    UC Davis Children’s Hospital opens Panda Cares Center of Hope

    UC Davis Children’s Hospital is proud to announce the opening of its Panda Cares Center of Hope, made possible by Panda Express associates and guests.

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  • July 22, 2024

    New era of health care emerges as UC Davis Health breaks ground on CA Tower

    A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the California Tower, a hospital expansion to meet the region’s health care needs for the next 50 years.

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  • January 17, 2024

    Leadership message: Our 2024 progress towards Vision 2030

    As a new year dawns, construction continues across UC Davis Health, and so does our staff’s cumulative work on Vision 2030.

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  • January 10, 2024

    UC Davis Health marks close-in ceremony for innovative 48X Complex

    UC Davis Health celebrated a construction milestone for the 48X Complex, a four-story building that will feature one of the largest outpatient surgery centers in the country.

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  • December 7, 2023

    ‘Raise that beam’: Folsom Medical Office Building frame complete

    Folsom MOB construction crews used a crane to lift the final beam of steel into place Dec. 7, in what is called a “topping out” ceremony.

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  • November 22, 2023

    Building Together: FP&D successfully hosts second annual industry day

    With more than 500 industry partners in attendance, UC Davis Health’s Facilities Planning and Development (FP&D) division hosted its second annual industry day — Building Together — on Oct. 30, 2023.

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  • October 18, 2023

    Leadership message: Improving seismic safety at UC Davis Health

    A leading force behind Vision 2030 is ensuring the Sacramento campus adheres to California state seismic compliance. 

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  • October 27, 2023

    Stockton prenatal clinic opens new location

    A new Stockton clinic location for patients with high-risk pregnancies has opened this week.

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  • October 13, 2023

    Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute Building recognized regionally and nationally

    The Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute Building received top awards from the Construction Managers Association of America and the Sacramento Business Journal.

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  • September 11, 2023

    ‘Mammovan’ rolls into Oak Park to bring breast cancer screening to women

    Instead of coming to a clinic, a clinic came to the community. Free mobile mammograms were provided to low-income women in Oak Park.

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  • July 5, 2023

    New teen patient lounge brings healing power of fun

    Rock band The Who and its Teen Cancer America organization help give hospitalized teenagers a break from medical care.

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  • May 30, 2023

    Team behind California Tower project

    The dynamic team of leaders reflect on launching one of the nation’s largest progressive design build projects in health care.

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  • January 18, 2023

    Leadership message: 'Vision 2030'

    By 2030, UC Davis Health’s Sacramento campus will grow from today’s 3.6 million square feet of building space to over 7 million square feet. This doubling of the campus in less than eight years is the largest health system capital expansion in the United States today.

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  • October 27, 2022

    UC Davis Health breaks ground on 48X Complex, a new outpatient surgery center

    UC Davis Health held a ceremonial groundbreaking today for a major new outpatient surgery center known as the 48X Complex.

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  • October 21, 2022

    Our first Industry Day

    UC Davis Health Facilities Planning and Development hosted UC Davis Health’s first ever Industry Day event for AECs, subcontractors and other interested parties.

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  • UC Davis Health Construction Updates

    Archive of UC Davis construction project updates from the Office of Government and Community Relations.

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  • October 20, 2021

    UC Davis Health expands care for patients in Folsom

    New facilities and a proposed new community represent the university’s commitment to promoting healthy aging in the region.

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