Happy Sanchez is a certified family nurse practitioner at Scripps Coastal Medical Center in Escondido. She believes in empowering her patients to be active participants in their care, taking the time to listen carefully to their concerns and goals.

Happy provides up-to-date information and resources, so that she and her patients, together, can create an individualized plan of care. Fluent in Tagalog, Happy earned her Masters of Science in Nursing at the University of San Diego and specializes in preventive care and chronic conditions.

When not seeing patients, Happy enjoys dancing, reading novels, experimenting with new recipes, watching documentaries and playing games with her husband and children.