What is Sharp HealthCare?

Sharp HealthCare is the San Diego region's most comprehensive health care delivery system. Sharp opened its first hospital, the Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital, in 1955. Today the Sharp system includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups, medical clinics, six urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and a variety of other community health education programs and related services.

Despite its considerable growth, Sharp continues to adhere to the goals established by its founders. Sharp performed the community's first open heart surgery just a few years after its original hospital opened. Sharp also founded the county's first health care facility exclusively for women, established the first hospital-based alcohol and drug treatment center, performed the area's first heart transplant and initiated the first use of the artificial heart on the West Coast. A kidney and lung transplantation program was begun in 1990 and more babies are born at Sharp hospitals than others in the region.

The Sharp HealthCare Mission

Sharp's mission is to improve the health of those we serve with a commitment to
excellence in all
that we do.

Our goal is to offer
quality care and services that set community standards, exceed
patients' expectations
and are offered in a caring, convenient, cost-effective and accessible manner.