A nurse helps a mother with a newborn baby at the UC San Diego Medical Center. (Photo: Elena Zhukova/UC)
In 1981, a woman was born prematurely at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. She received life-saving care from a multidisciplinary team. Forty-one years later, she returned to the same hospital system— UC San Diego Health—to deliver her own premature twins at Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla.
The infants received the most advanced and specialized neonatal care in the region’s only academic medical center, just like their mother did more than four decades earlier. The twin daughters were discharged after 107 days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and continue to grow and thrive.
Care for parents and infants, such as the services at UC San Diego Health, is a hallmark of UC’s academic health system.
January 6, 2025 •
