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    Top Hospital for Heart Care

    Scripps Heart Care: You’ll know the difference in a heartbeat Out of more than 5,000 hospitals, only 3% are ranked in one or more of the 16 specialties in the 17th annual edition of U.S.News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals.” This is the fourth time that Scripps La Jolla has been ...

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    New Program Helps Bring Safety & Stability to Homeless Patients After They’re Discharged From Hospital

    New Program Helps Bring Safety & Stability to Homeless Patients After They’re Discharged From Hospital SAN DIEGO – Some of San Diego County’s most vulnerable residents – the homeless who need a safe place to recuperate after being discharged from the hospital but lack the basic resources that ...

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    Quality, Personalized Care

    At Scripps Coastal Medical Center, we understand that great health care is about expertise and communication. Our top patient-rated medical practice specializes in: Family medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics This network is enhanced by access to specialists who represent almost every field of ...

    • Friday, August 1st, 2008

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    Introducing Scripps Coastal Medical Center

    Scripps Coastal Medical Center is the New Name of Scripps Mercy Medical Group and Sharp Mission Park New group has 100 physicians in eight locations from Oceanside to Bonita SAN DIEGO – Scripps Health announced today that Scripps Coastal Medical Center is the new name of the physician offices and ...

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    Headache Help

    Paul, a 71-year old retired electronic aircraft equipment naval repairman from Mira Mesa, Calif. knows what it’s like to live with chronic pain. He started getting headaches in early childhood, and spent the majority of his life battling debilitating migraines. During a bad spell, his headaches ...

    • Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

  • Health and Wellness

    Speak Up for Better Health Care

    Whether it’s for a routine procedure or major surgery, checking into a hospital can be a stressful experience. After all, no one wants to be in the hospital, and it’s normal—perhaps even unavoidable—to feel anxious, especially when people you may have never seen before are in and out of ...

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    Douglas E. Barnhart Makes $2.5 Million Gift to Build Robotic Surgery Suites at Scripps Mercy Hospital

    Douglas E. Barnhart, founder of Douglas E. Barnhart, Inc., a San Diego building, engineering and construction management firm, has made a $2.5 million gift to modernize Scripps Mercy’s operating rooms used for minimally invasive robotic surgery. In January 2008, Mr. Barnhart received lifesaving ...

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    Scripps Emergency Training Event Featured on KPBS-FM

    Scripps Health President and CEO Chris Van Gorder discusses Scripps’ involvement in a major emergency training event July 23. Scripps is partnering with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Marines, and local police and fire officials to cooperatively pr

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    Scripps La Jolla Nationally Recognized for Heart Care for the Fourth Time

    LA JOLLA, CA. – Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla was recognized as a top hospital in the nation for both heart and heart surgery by U.S.News & World Report. The magazine’s latest edition is devoted to outstanding health care across the nation and selected Scripps La Jolla as one of “America’s ...

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    Alternative Approaches to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

    Reviewed by Richard Brown, M.D., Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla You wake in the night with a painful tingling sensation in your fingers – or no sensation at all. You pick up a pencil or apply lipstick, and it falls out of your grip. Sounds familiar? Sounds like carpal tunnel syndrome. Tunnel ...