Just last year, Sharp Grossmont Hospital celebrated 50 years of existence, but also 50 years of being a health care leader for the community of La Mesa, CA. Beginning operations on August 15, 1955, Sharp Grossmont Hospital has since led the way in San Diego?s area, scoring many breakthroughs in the process, such as the first conjoined twin separation in 1956, the installation of the first brain scanner in 1975, and the opening of the first freestanding cancer center, among others. Nowadays, Sharp Grossmont Hospital has grown 4 times of its original size, featuring 481 beds, and still undertaking constant expansion and updating, such as the phase two of the Emergency and Critical Care Center. Sharp Grossmont Hospital is proud to bring a wide selection of services: Behavioral Health, Emergency & Critical Care, Grossmont Plaza Surgery Center, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (a unique treatment for diabetic wounds, radiation injuries, etc), Senior Services (including medical care, health information and exercise programs), Sharp HospiceCare (to provide support in face of terminal illness), the David and Donna Long Center for Cancer treatment (one-of-the-kind facility for cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment and education), Cardiovascular, Women?s Health Center, Orthopedic, Sleep Disorders Center (fully equipped to deal with the full range of sleep related disorders) and Rehabilitation (including brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury and many other rehabilitation services). Just recently, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has given Sharp Grossmont Hospital its Gold Seal of Approval for stroke care.
The career opportunities at Sharp Grossmont Hospital are promising: indeed, as a part of Sharp HealthCare, the door is open not only to work at the hospital, but perhaps at one of the many medical facilities operated by the group, which employs close to 12,000 employees. Should you feel tempted to apply, it would be a good idea to take your time to navigate all the links with valuable information that are available at the website. If, for whatever reason you are not interested in this information, you can always skip this step and go straight to the job search engine, which is a breeze to use. Many positions are currently available for nurses as of this writing.