Treating patients without harming the environment: that is the goal of the nation’s first all-electric acute care hospital opening next week in California.

UCI Health hospital in Irvine, California, is breaking ground in more ways than one.

Joe Brothman, director of general services at UCI Health, said, "What that means is there's no natural gas coming into this entire campus."

It’s welcoming patients this month and also opening the door to hospital innovation.

"Hospitals operate 24/7, 365, 366 on leap year," Brothman said. "We never turn off. They're incredibly energy-intensive buildings."

According to the American Medical Association, the U.S. health system is responsible for 8.5% of carbon emissions in the country.

"Operations here have no negative externalities, and we're trying

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