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    Scripps Annual Report Highlights Physician Co-management Success

    At Scripps, our physicians and administrative leaders are working together to make decisions about patient care. As partners in caring, physicians and administrators are studying our clinical care lines to improve care and reduce costs. They are identifying and eliminating unnecessary variations and ...

    • Thursday, June 6th, 2013

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    Celebrating Doctors Day

    Celebrated nationally on March 30 every year, Doctors Day is the perfect time to say “thank you” to a doctor or other caregiver. The tradition began in 1933 with Eudora Brown Almond, the wife of physician Charles B. Almond, and marks the anniversary of the first use of general anesthesia in surgery ...

    • Monday, March 4th, 2013

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    Social Media Campaign a 'Slam Dunk' For State-Of-The-Art Heart Care

    Scripps month-long social media campaign “The Beat Goes On” came to a splashing and successful conclusion at noon on Monday, Feb.4 2013. That’s when employees and volunteers at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla teamed up with local residents to form a human heart around future Hall-of-Fame ...

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    A Woman’s Heart

    By Kiyon Chung, MD, Scripps Health With both Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month on the calendar, February is all about keeping hearts happy. While coronary heart disease (CHD) remains the leading cause of death among both women and men—claiming one in four lives in the United States—the ...

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    EP Save a Life Foundation Urges Parents to Screen Kids

    Through sponsorship of the Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation, Scripps volunteers, including physicians and nurses, screen students throughout the San Diego and Riverside regions to help raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest in adolescents. The Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation urges parents ...

    • Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

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    83rd Annual Candlelight Ball Raises $2 Million

    83rd Annual Candlelight Ball Chaired By Betty Knight Scripps Raises $2 Million The 83rd Annual Candlelight Ball, held Dec. 1, 2012, raised more than $2 million to benefit lifesaving care at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla , with generous support from philanthropist and newspaper heiress Betty ...

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    First Laser Lead Extraction at Scripps La Jolla is a Success

    Some unique circumstances surrounded the first laser lead extraction procedure at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The procedure was performed by Steven Higgins, MD, who happened to be celebrating his birthday that day. He patient was also named Dr. Higgins—Dr. James Higgins. Dr. Higgins ...

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    Diabetes: Past, Present and Future

    By Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD In 1920, a Canadian surgeon by the name of Dr. Frederick Banting decided to test a theory. He believed that diabetes might be related to the function of the pancreas. Two years later, Banting and his assistant tested their insulin extract on their first human subject, a ...

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    Grand Opening of Scripps Radiation Therapy Center

    Local health care and community leaders gathered Oct. 3 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for San Diego County’s newest cancer care facility, as the $43.9 million Scripps Radiation Therapy Center officially opened its doors to offer a glimpse into some of the most advanced technologies in the world for ...

    • Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

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    The Many Faces of a Cancer Diagnosis

    By Ray Lin, MD, Scripps Health Few events may be as life-changing as a diagnosis of cancer. Yet thousands of people hear such news every day. In fact, according to the National Cancer Institute, more than 40 percent of men and women born today will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during ...