UCI Health, the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine (UCI), has announced a$20 million gift from Joe C. Wen and his family toward an outpatient clinical facility at the new UCI Health – Irvine complex.

To be named the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care at UCI Health – Irvine, the five-story, 168,000-square-foot outpatient facility will offer adult and pediatric specialty care, urgent care, digestive health, neurosciences, and comprehensive laboratory and radiology imaging services. The building also will house the Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders. The $1.3 billion complex adjacent to UCI and the new health sciences campus comprises one of the largest investments in patient care services in California. In addition to the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care, the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care Center is scheduled to open in late 2023. A 144-bed acute-care hospital with an emergency department will open in 2025.

“UCI Health transforms lives everyday thanks to its leading-edge academic research, advanced medical facilities, and—most importantly—passionate and top-notch medical professionals,” said Wen, founder and CEO of Sakura Paper, Inc., a division of Formosa Ltd. “There’s no doubt that the new medical center in Irvine will have a tremendously positive impact on the community. My family members and I are honored and humbled to be able to help.”

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