Sharp HealthCare, the largest medical provider in the San Diego region, will kick off a decade-long, $2 billion investment in its medical facilities when workers break ground on a new emergency and trauma expansion at Sharp Memorial Hospital in the San Diego neighborhood of Serra Mesa, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
It’s the third billion-dollar health facilities building campaign now underway in San Diego County, with Scripps Health and UC San Diego Health both undertaking capital campaigns in the coming decade.
About $600 million of the Sharp effort will flow to its “metro” campus with a gradual series of building and demolition, culminating in the removal of the complex’s central and south towers, original structures that do not comply with modern seismic safety requirements and must be taken out of service by 2030. Read more.
