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  Bank of America Gives $30,000 to Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista

  Bank of America has made a $30,000 grant to Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista to fund the School to Health Career Mentoring Program, which encourages high school students in San Diego’s South Bay to seek careers in health care. “Providing opportunities for today’s youth is ...

  • Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

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  Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista Celebrates All Digital Cath Lab

  Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista now has the ability to better view and treat coronary artery blockages that could cause heart attacks or other serious cardiovascular damage with a new state- of-the-art Cardiac Catheterization Lab. Last August the hospital held a grand opening and ribbon cutting ...

  • Monday, February 7th, 2005
  • Scripps Mercy Hospital

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  Physicians at Scripps Clinic Receive the Kappa Delta Award for their Cartilage Research

  Darryl D. D’Lima, MD, Clifford W. Colwell Jr, MD, from the Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research and Education at Scripps Clinic and Martin K. Lotz, MD from The Scripps Research Institute received The Kappa Delta Award for their cartilage research. The award was presented at the American ...

  • Saturday, February 5th, 2005

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  Colin Powell Appoints Scripps CEO Chris Van Gorder to United Nations Commission Advisory Board

  SAN DIEGO -Secretary of State Colin Powell has appointed Scripps President and CEO Chris Van Gorder to the United States National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). “I am honored to have been selected to serve on the United States ...

  • Monday, January 10th, 2005

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  Betty Knight Scripps Chairs History-making 75th annual Candlelight Ball

  This was a history-making year for the Candlelight Ball. On this, the ball’s Diamond Anniversary, $2.3 million was raised to benefit Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The event’s success was due to the efforts of Betty Knight Scripps, who served as general chairman for the second ...

  • Monday, January 10th, 2005

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  Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla Earns 2004/2005 Consumer Choice Award

  For the third time in four years, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla has earned the 2004/2005 Consumer Choice Award by the National Research Corporation (NRC) for the San Diego region. The Consumer Choice Award is given to the hospitals whose consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and ...

  • Monday, January 10th, 2005

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  Leon Parma, Ernest Rady, Sister Mary Jo Anderson join Scripps Health Board of Trustees

  SAN DIEGO – Leon W. Parma, Ernest S. Rady and Sister Mary Jo Anderson have joined the Scripps Health Board of Trustees. Attorney Abby Sliverman has been re-elected to a second term as chairman. Parma was a founder and chairman of La Jolla Bank & Trust Company and focuses on property ...

  • Wednesday, January 5th, 2005

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  Scripps Clinic Conducts Study On The Use Of Canines In Detection Of Cancer

  They can fetch. They can roll over and play dead. But can dogs really detect cancer? A study being conducted at Scripps Clinic in San Diego is investigating the possibility that “man’s best friend” may also be able to detect cancer by sniffing urine samples. Society has been using ...

  • Monday, December 13th, 2004
  • Scripps Green Hospital, Scripps Clinic

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  Scripps Mercy Outreach Surgical Team Provides Nearly 300 Procedures to Children in Mexico

  The Mercy Outreach Surgical Team (MOST) recently provided more than 300 reconstructive surgeries and procedures for 215 patients in the city of Tula, Mexico.A team of nearly 45 physicians, nurses, recovery team members, translators and Rotarians provided a range of procedures, from a simple repair ...

  • Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
  • Scripps Mercy Hospital

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  The Whittier Institute for Diabetes Names Executive Director

  The Whittier Institute for Diabetes has named Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD, as Executive Director. A subsidiary of Scripps Health, The Whittier Institute for Diabetes is one of the nation’s leading diabetes research, patient care and education organizations based in La Jolla, ...

  • Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla