Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is a 330-bed hospital with the largest selection of health care services in south San Diego County. Sharp Chula Vista possesses the area?s only certified Community Hospital Cancer Program and radiation oncology center and is home to the region?s most wide-ranging cardiac care program. In addition, the hospital offers the county?s most complete bloodless medicine program for patients who choose to circumvent transfusions of donor blood or blood products.
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center features 400 physicians and 1,200 health care professionals forming a multidisciplinary team to provide patient-centered care with high quality treatments for more than 80,000 patients a year. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is the most comprehensive hospital in the South Bay and the region's leading heart hospital. In addition, Sharp Chula Vista offers specialized services in emergency care, outpatient surgery, back, joint and weight-loss surgery, as well as a cancer treatment program certified by the American College of Surgeons.
The Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Program at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is a new service offered to patients who, for religious or personal reasons, wish to avoid the use of donated blood during medical and surgical procedures. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center?s Weight-Loss Surgery Program provides laparoscopic (less invasive) Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Becoming the gold standard for the treatment of clinical obesity The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass has been endorsed by the National Institute of Health.
Being the most important provider of cardiac health care in San Diego?s region of South Bay, Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center offers services like open-heart surgery, cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, coronary stents and vascular surgery. The hospital's community cancer program is fully accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and provides the full range of cancer services that comprise from diagnosis, through treatment (including South Bay?s only radiation therapy center) and recovery.