Sharp Healthcare
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| Type | Not-for-profit hospital system |
| Founded | San Diego,California (1955) |
| Headquarters | San Diego, USA |
| Key people | Michael Murphy, President |
| Industry | Health Care |
| Revenue |  1.8 billion USD) (Fiscal year ended September 30, 2006) |
| Employees | 14,000 |
| Website | Sharp.com |
Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit integrated regional health care delivery system located in San Diego. Sharp includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups and a health plan. Sharp operates 1,867 beds, has approximately 2,600 physicians on medical staffs, 1,582 physicians in medical groups, more than 14,000 employees, and represents $1.2 billion in assets and $1.7 billion in revenue.
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[edit] Awards
In November 2007 Sharp HealthCare was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Sharp was one of five organizations to receive the award, which is the nation’s highest Presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence.
Sharp was the first health care provider in California and the eighth in the nation to receive this recognition.
[edit] History
The first Sharp hospital opened in 1955 as Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital, as a non-profit facility in San Diego. Funding for the facility included a 1950 donation of $500,000 from a rancher and radio communications pioneer named Thomas E. Sharp, in memory of his son, US Army Air Corps Lt. Donald N. Sharp, who has been killed in World War II. By 1952, more than $2.5 million had been donated by 1,300 individuals, families, and businesses. The ground breaking for Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital took place in 1953.[1]
[edit] Locations
Sharp HealthCare include four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. Sharp's facilities operate 1,870 beds[2].
[edit] Acute Care Hospitals
[edit] Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
Affiliated with Sharp HealthCare since 1989, Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is located in Chula Vista. It has 330 beds, including 100 skilled nursing beds.
The cancer treatment program at Sharp Chula Vista is certified by the American College of Surgeons.
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center employees 400 physicians and 1,200 health care professionals, treating over 80,000 patients each year.
[edit] Sharp Coronado Hospital
Sharp Coronado Hospital affiliated with Sharp HealthCare in 1994. Located in Coronado, the facility holds 204 beds, 46 of these being skilled nursing beds. Sharp Coronado Hospital is the only Planetree Alliance hospital in San Diego County, and as such focuses on patient empowerment, patient and family education and complementary therapies, including Healing Touch, clinical aromatherapy, acupuncture and massage therapy.
[edit] Sharp Grossmont Hospital
Located in La Mesa, California, Sharp Grossmont Hospital affiliated with Sharp HealthCare in 1991. Sharp Grossmont Hospital holds 481 beds, 30 being skilled nursing beds.
In November 2006, Sharp Grossmont Hospital received Magnet designation for excellence in patient care and nursing practices. As the highest level of honor awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Magnet Recognition Program is accepted nationally as the gold standard in nursing excellence.
[edit] Sharp Memorial Hospital
Opened in 1955, Sharp Memorial Hospital is Sharp's largest hospital and the system's only designated Level II trauma center. Located in Serra Mesa, the hospital has 341 beds, 76 of which are skilled nursing beds.
In January 2008, Sharp Memorial became the second Sharp hospital to receive the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet recognition nursing excellence, making Sharp HealthCare the first health system in California with two Magnet-designated hospitals.
