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• Scripps in the News

  Emergency Care Overhaul Slashes Wait Time to 30 Minutes or Less

  Scripps revolutionized their emergency room admittance process to virtually eliminate wait times. This new, streamlined process has changed the way our hospitals deliver emergency care, now bringing patients into contact with a doctor in an average of 30 minutes or less. Learn more about how Scripps ...

  • Friday, October 7th, 2011
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Mercy Hospital

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  $5 Million Gift Supports Expansion at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

  San Diego – Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas has received a $5 million gift from a charitable Rancho Santa Fe family. The anonymous gift supports The Campaign for Scripps Encinitas, a multi-year capital campaign to raise funds for the expansion of the nonprofit hospital’s emergency and ...

  • Thursday, April 21st, 2011
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Every Minute Matters

  Every morning, Julie Kirtland and her golden retriever, Dylan, take an hour stroll around her Encinitas neighborhood. But, on March 23, 2010, their regular walk was abruptly interrupted. Only a few blocks from home, Julie’s heart stopped beating. As Julie lay in the street experiencing cardiac ...

  • Thursday, February 24th, 2011
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Moody’s Upgrades Scripps Health to Aa3 Fitch, Standard & Poor’s Affirm AA- Bond Rating

  San Diego – Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded Scripps Health’s bond rating from A1 to Aa3, with a stable outlook. Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s Rating Services have affirmed their AA- rating, also with a stable outlook. “The improved bond rating from Moody’s and the affirmation of our ...

  • Friday, February 18th, 2011
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Mercy Hospital, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

• Scripps Tips - February 2011

  Heart Month: What Matters in Preventing and Managing Chronic Diseases With more than 80 million people in the United States living with some form of heart disease, 46 million with arthritis and 5.3 million with Alzheimer’s, it is easy to believe that such chronic diseases are an inevitable part of ...

  • Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Clinic, Scripps Coastal Medical Center, Scripps Mercy Hospital, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

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  Scripps Program Cuts ER Waiting Times

  San Diego – Scripps Mercy Hospital is the first in California to put into place an innovative and patient-focused process that has virtually eliminated wait times and has changed the way the hospital delivers care to patients seeking treatment in the emergency department at its San Diego and Chula ...

  • Monday, January 31st, 2011
  • Scripps Mercy Hospital, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Clinic, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Scripps Coastal Medical Center

• Scripps in the News

  Scripps Expert Offers Solution to Cover U.S. Trauma Care Gaps

  National trauma care expert Dr. Brent Eastman explores the issue of treating traumatically injured patients in a commentary published Jan. 3 in Modern Healthcare. Dr. Brent Eastman, who is chief medical officer and N. Paul Whittier chair of trauma with Scripps Health, advocates for the development ...

  • Monday, January 3rd, 2011
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Mercy Hospital

• Scripps in the News

  "Wherever the Dart Lands: Toward the Ideal Trauma System"

  Trauma care in the United States is so fragmented, overwhelmed and underfunded that the survival and recovery of those who suffer major trauma often depends on where they happen to be when they are injured. That is the conclusion expressed by Dr. Brent Eastman, FACS, during the “Scudder ...

  • Thursday, December 9th, 2010
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Mercy Hospital

• Scripps in the News

  The Savvy Patient - Emergency Department or Urgent Care?

  In this week’s installment of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s “Savvy Patient” column, Scripps Health provides insights into the issue of knowing where to go when care is needed – the emergency department or urgent care?

  • Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
  • Scripps Clinic Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines, Scripps Coastal Medical Center

• Scripps Tips – September 2010

  Great American Hero Receives Experimental Heart Valve Lester Tenney, a Carlsbad resident, has cheated death many times. He survived World War II’s infamous Bataan Death March. He endured more than three years of slave labor in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. And four months ago, he benefited from ...

  • Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, Scripps Clinic, Scripps Green Hospital, Scripps Mercy Hospital