California
After a whirlwind courtship, Scripps Memorial Hospitals and Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation have agreed to unify next Jan. 1, leaving Sharp HealthCare as the jilted party in a health-care triangle.
July 28, 1990
The gradual reshaping of San Diego County’s health care services picked up speed Wednesday when Scripps Clinic and Scripps Memorial Hospital consolidated their boards of trustees and management structures into a new entity to be called ScrippsHealth.
Dec. 17, 1992
Signing a historic agreement on a page marked with a Post-It, top officials of two institutions founded by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps united Thursday to create the first of an expected string of health care conglomerates in San Diego County.
Jan. 4, 1991
One of San Diego County’s leading biomedical research facilities and the county’s largest nonprofit hospital chain are considering joining forces, a merger that would create a $750-million-a-year medical giant.
June 9, 1990
The failure of the county government to buy a psychiatric hospital in Encinitas because of bureaucratic slowness has left North County mental health activists frustrated and concerned that the county cannot cope with the area’s growing population of people in need of psychiatric care.
March 12, 1988
Physicians in the 7-month-old San Diego County trauma system are performing surgery on only half the expected number of trauma patients, which prompted county staffers Tuesday to advise the Board of Supervisors to reduce the number of centers from six to four.
Feb. 13, 1985
Scripps Memorial Hospital administrators, faced with their second drug scandal in the past four months, have dismissed 12 employees for allegedly selling drugs and stealing medical supplies from its Encinitas facility.
Aug. 16, 1988
Business
Sharp HealthCare threw down a $46-million gauntlet for its competitors Thursday by announcing plans for a 108-bed women’s hospital next to Sharp Memorial Hospital.
May 26, 1989
Eleven schoolchildren suffered minor injuries Wednesday when a school bus plowed through a Solana Beach shopping center parking lot, careened off a parked van and then crashed into a video store.
Feb. 8, 1990