Sharp Grossmont Hospital

Sharp Grossmont Hospital is located in La Mesa, California, United States. It is the largest healthcare facility in East San Diego County with a service area covering 750 square miles. The property is owned by Grossmont Healthcare District, which has leased it to Sharp HealthCare 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^[1] 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.

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
• Hospice
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
• Infusion Center
• Limb Preservation Program
• Massage and Healing Touch Therapies
• Mental Health 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^{[citation needed]}

• 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 [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.

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