Sharp Grossmont Hospital

Sharp Grossmont Hospital is located in La Mesa, California, United States. It is the largest health care facility in East San Diego County with a service area covering 750 square miles. It is owned by Grossmont Healthcare District, who has leased it to Sharp HealthCare since 1991.

Overview

Sharp Grossmont Hospital, located in San Diego, is a 540-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 with programs in emergency and critical care, cardiac care, orthopedics, rehabilitation, behavioral health, neurology, women’s health, children’s health and hospice care. Sharp Grossmont is a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence.

Sharp Grossmont Hospital's Emergency and Critical Care Center includes private rooms equipped with showers and TV, as well as either a couch or reclining chair that converts to a bed. More than two-thirds of the hospital's acute-care beds are private.

Services

• Behavioral Health Services
• Cardiovascular Services
• David and Donna Long Center for Cancer Treatment
• Emergency and Critical Care Center
• Grossmont Plaza Surgery Center
• Hospice
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
• Massage and Healing Touch Therapies
• Orthopedic Services
• Outpatient Imaging Center
• Palliative Care Services
• Pre-Admissions Evaluation Services (PAES)
• Rehabilitation Services
• Robotic Surgery (da Vinci Surgical System)
• Senior Services
• Sleep Disorders Center
• Spiritual Care Services
• Stroke Center
• Women’s Health Center

Medical firsts

• The David and Donna Long 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 [San Diego County] outpatient 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.

Awards to the hospital

• In 2011, the hospital was honored by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines Program with the Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.
• In 2010, it was recognized as one of San Diego's "Best Hospitals" in the San Diego Union-Tribune's San Diego's Best readers poll.
• In 2010, it received two Beacon Awards for Critical Care Excellence.
• In 2010, it was honored by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines Program with multiple 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. Sharp Grossmont Hospital is a part of Sharp HealthCare.
• In 2006, it received the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet designation for excellence in nursing practices and patient care.

References

External links

• Sharp HealthCare
• Sharp Grossmont Hospital
• Grossmont Healthcare District
• This hospital in the CA Healthcare Atlas A project by OSHPD
• Sharp documentary
• Baldrige National Quality Program