Sharp HealthCare

Sharp HealthCare

Company type	Not-for-profit hospital system
Industry	Health Care
Founded	San Diego,California(1955)
Headquarters	San Diego , United States
Key people	Christopher Howard, President
Revenue	3.5 billionUSD(Fiscal year ended September 30, 2016)
Number of employees	18,000
Website	Sharp

Sharp HealthCareis anot-for-profitregionalhealth caregroup located inSan Diego.Sharp includes fouracute carehospitals, three specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups, and a health plan. Sharp has approximately 2,600 physicians, and more than 18,000 employees.

History

The first Sharp hospital opened in 1955, as Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital, a nonprofit facility in San Diego. Funding for the facility began in 1950, with adonationof $500,000 from a local rancher andradio communicationspioneer, Thomas E. Sharp. This donation was made in memory of his son, US ArmyAir CorpsLt.Donald N. Sharp, who had been killed during World War II. By 1952, more than $2.5 million had been donated by 1,300 individuals, families, and businesses. The groundbreaking for Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital took place in 1953.

Locations

Sharp HealthCare includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan.

Acute care Hospitals

Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center

Affiliated with Sharp HealthCare since 1989,Sharp Chula Vista Medical Centeris located inChula Vista.It has 449 licensed beds, including 100 skilled nursing beds and 9neonatal intensive carebeds.

The cancer treatment program at Sharp Chula Vista is certified by theAmerican College of SurgeonsCommission on Cancer, as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center. The breast cancer treatment program at Sharp Chula Vista is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

Sharp Coronado Hospital

Sharp Coronado Hospitalhas been affiliated with Sharp HealthCare since 1994. Located inCoronado,the facility holds 181 licensed beds, 122 of which are skilled nursing beds, and 59 of which are acute care beds.Sharp Coronado Hospitalwas the first Planetree Alliance hospital inSan Diego Countyand, as such, focuses on patient empowerment, patient and family education and alternative medicine, includingtherapeutic touch,clinicalaromatherapy,acupunctureand massage therapy.

Sharp Grossmont Hospital

Located inLa Mesa, California,Sharp Grossmont Hospitalaffiliated with Sharp HealthCare in 1991. Sharp Grossmont Hospital holds 524 licensed beds,24 of which are neonatal intensive care beds.

Sharp Grossmont Hospitalis recognized in 2022 by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Magnet Hospital for excellence in patient care and nursing practices.

The cancer treatment program at Sharp Grossmont is certified by theAmerican College of SurgeonsCommission on Cancer as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center.The breast cancer treatment program at Sharp Grossmont is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

Sharp Memorial Hospital

Opened in 1955,Sharp Memorial Hospitalis Sharp's largest hospital and the system's only designatedLevel II trauma center.Located inBirdland/Serra Mesa,the hospital has 656 licensed beds. Sharp Memorial Hospital is home to a large Emergency and Trauma center; a surgery center; many specialized medical programs and departments.

In January 2012, Sharp Memorial was formally designated as a Planetree Designated Patient-Centered Hospital, joining Sharp Coronado as the only other hospital in California to receive the designation. In January 2008, Sharp Memorial became the second Sharp hospital to receive theAmerican Nurses Credentialing CenterMagnet recognition for nursing excellence, making Sharp HealthCare the first health system inCaliforniawith two Magnet-designated hospitals.

The cancer treatment program at Sharp Memorial is certified by theAmerican College of SurgeonsCommission on Cancer as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center.The breast cancer treatment program at Sharp Memorial is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.

Specialty hospitals

Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns

Opened in 1992,Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newbornsis one of the first freestanding women's hospitals in the nation. More than 9,400 babies are born at Sharp Mary Birch each year, more than any other hospital in California.The hospital holds 206 beds, 84 of which areneonatal intensive care unit(NICU) beds.

Sharp Mary Birch has been designated a "Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery" by theAmerican Academy of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.

Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital

Sharp Mesa Vista Hospitalis the largest privately operatedpsychiatric hospitaland premier provider of psychiatric andchemical dependencyservices inSan Diego County.Sharp Mesa Vista joined Sharp in 1998, and currently holds 158 licensed and 154 maintained psychiatric beds.

Sharp McDonald Center

Sharp McDonald Centerprovides treatment for adults and their families, the only medically supervisedchemical dependencyrecovery hospital in San Diego County to do so. The hospital became affiliated with Sharp HealthCare in 1998 and has 17 licensed beds.

Medical groups

SharpCare Medical Group

SharpCare Medical Group provides care for patients in San Diego.

Sharp Community Medical Group

Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG) is an association of physicians who practice in their own private offices located throughout San Diego County. Sharp Community Medical Group includes 222 primary care physicians and 826 specialists.

Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group

Sharp Rees-Stealy has 21 locations throughout San Diego County.The medical group has 592 physicians - 195 primary care physicians and 397 specialists that represent virtually every field of medicine.

Health plan

Sharp Health Plan

Sharp Health Plan provides health insurance coverage for individuals, families, businesses and people with Medicare in San Diego County.