SOCAL HOSPITAL LOOKS TO KEEP UP WITH GROWTH THROUGH $200 MILLION PLAN
By John Mugford
After six years of planning, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Calif.) is finally moving forward on a $200 million project that would add critical care buildings, a new medical office building (MOB) and an 883-space parking garage. Eventually, the project would add new acute-care space as well.
The critical care portion of the project would expand the hospital’s emergency department, which hospital officials say is substantially undersized. The emergency department, according to officials, is the busiest in the state per bed, per capita. Making the project even more crucial, according to hospital officials, is the fact that the emergency department is the only such facility between La Jolla and Oceanside, and it has not been expanded for more than 16 years.
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