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Scripps Encinitas opens Lusardi Tower

North Coast Current • May 25, 2026

Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas recently opened a new three-story patient tower, adding 36 private rooms, a new intensive care unit, a postpartum unit and a perioperative monitoring area to the North County campus in what health system officials called a transformational expansion of its capabilities.

Solana Beach resident named to Scripps Health board

News Release • September 15, 2025

Jolene Koester, Solana Beach resident and past interim chancellor of the California State University system, and Rick Bregman, retired San Diego president of Bank of America and former national co-head of its health care banking, were elected last month to the 18-member Scripps Health Board of Trustees, which provides guidance and oversight for the San Diego-based health system.

Scripps Health to start work on San Marcos Medical Center

North Coast Current • March 27, 2025

Inland North San Diego County appears to have another hospital on the way after Scripps Health announced plans on March 17 for a 13-acre health care campus in San Marcos.

Scripps Health celebrates its 100th anniversary

News Release • September 17, 2024

Exactly a century after a small seaside hospital first opened its doors in 1924, health care workers and local leaders gathered Tuesday, Sept. 17, to celebrate Scripps Health’s 100th anniversary.

Scripps Encinitas breaks ground on hospital expansion

North Coast Current • June 9, 2023

Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas marked the beginning of a major expansion Thursday, June 8, with a groundbreaking ceremony for the $263 million Lusardi Tower and Lusardi Pulmonary Institute.

Scripps Physician Receives $180,000 Grant for Palliative Care Initiative

OsideNews • December 20, 2021

Educational effort to empower first responders with palliative care skills Encinitas CA— David Wang, M.D., a palliative medicine physician affiliated with Scripps Health, was recently accepted into Cambia...

Scripps Begins Using Novel Balloon Implants for Rotator Cuff Tears

OsideNews • November 7, 2021

FDA recently cleared new device for use as alternative to complex surgery Rancho Santa Fe CA— Patients with rotator cuff injuries now have a new treatment option that can replace the need for complex...

Impact of COVID Pandemic Takes Toll on Health Care Workforce

OsideNews • August 22, 2021

Substantially more open positions now at Scripps than before pandemic San Diego CA— Significant health care workforce shortages, combined with an increase in COVID-19 cases and non-COVID patient care,...

Scripps Health Has Opened Comprehensive Rehab Center

OsideNews • June 18, 2021

Outpatient facility in Encinitas includes latest diagnostic and therapeutic technologies Encinitas CA— Scripps Health has opened a new comprehensive rehabilitation services center, offering a full range...

Scripps Medical Center Jefferson Opens in Oceanside

OsideNews • October 20, 2020

North County site includes primary care, specialty care, urgent care, outpatient surgery Oceanside CA—Scripps Health announced on Monday, the opening of Scripps Medical Center Jefferson, giving the region’s...

Scripps Research Studying Wearable Devices to Detect COVID-19

OsideNews • July 23, 2020

Scripps Research is collaborating with frontline workers at the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and Scripps Health to help detect and track viral illnesses in near real-time. San Diego CA— In a...

Scripps Health Reopens Final Clinics Previously Closed for Pandemic

OsideNews • June 3, 2020

Outpatient facilities are safe places for those who need care San Diego CA— Scripps Health this week has reopened the last of its outpatient clinics that had been temporarily closed in March after state...

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