Sharp Grossmont Hospital is located in
La Mesa,
California
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, United States. It is the largest healthcare facility in East
San Diego
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County with a service area covering 750 square miles. The property is owned by Grossmont Healthcare District, which has leased it to
Sharp HealthCare
Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit regional health care group located in San Diego. Sharp includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups, and a health plan. Sharp has approximately 2,600 physicians, ...
since 1991. Sharp HealthCare, however, manages all hospital operations as a separate entity.
Overview
Sharp Grossmont Hospital, located in San Diego, is a 536-bed hospital
that provides medical and surgical care, intensive care, sub-acute and long-term care, rehabilitation and emergency services.
Sharp Grossmont Hospital is the largest health care facility in East
San Diego County
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with programs in emergency and critical care, cardiac care, orthopedics, rehabilitation, behavioral health, neurology, women's health, children's health and hospice care.
More than two-thirds of the hospital's acute-care beds are private.
Services
* Behavioral Health Services
* Cardiovascular Services
* David & Donna Long Cancer Center
* Emergency and Critical Care Center
* Endoscopy Services
* Grossmont Plaza Surgery Center
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Hospice
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Hyperbaric
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Oxygen Therapy
* Infusion Center
* Limb Preservation Program
* Massage and Healing Touch Therapies
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Mental Health
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Services
* Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
* Nutrition Counseling
* Orthopedic Services
* Outpatient Imaging Center
* Palliative Care Services
* Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation Services (PAES)
* Pulmonary Services
* Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging
* Rehabilitation Services
*
Robotic Surgery (da Vinci Surgical System)
* Senior Services
* Sharp Grossmont Hospital Care Clinic
* Skilled Nursing Facilities
*
Sleep Disorders Center
* Spiritual Care Services
* Stroke Center
* Thoracic (Lung) Surgery
* Women's Health Center
* Wound Healing Center and Hyperbaric Medicine
Medical firsts
* The David & Donna Long Cancer Center is the first center in San Diego County to implement the TomoTherapy Hi-Art System, a radiation treatment device with a built-in computerized tomography (CT) scanner.
* Sharp Grossmont opened the first hospice house in San Diego, known as the LakeView Home, offering in-home end-of-life care.
* First in San Diego County to have a computerized tomography scanner with three-dimensional radiation treatment capabilities and dose calculations.
* In 1993, the first East
an Diego Countyoutpatient cardiovascular diagnosis center opened at Sharp Grossmont Hospital as part of the Cardiovascular Institute.
* In 1993, Sharp Grossmont opened the David and Donna Long Center for Cancer Treatment, San Diego County's first stand-alone cancer center offering diagnoses, treatment (chemotherapy), drug trials and radiation therapy in one location.
References
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Hospitals in San Diego County, California
Companies based in San Diego