Hospitals

Plans have been unveiled for a $1.2 billion Scripps San Marcos medical center campus, which will include a 200- to 500-bed hospital and a roughly 200,000-square-foot ambulatory care building. NBC 7’s Todd Strain reports.

A Connecticut family whose day-old infant died of a massive hemorrhage in February filed a lawsuit accusing a Greenwich Hospital delivery doctor of vacuuming the newborn’s head more than a dozen times during birth.

The Scripps Mercy Chula Vista maternity ward will be consolidated with the labor and delivery unit at Scripps Hillcrest facility, officials said

In California alone, hospitalizations spiked statewide by more than 14 percent over that same time period. But in San Diego County, hospitals aren’t reporting a lot of COVID-19 activity. “We’re not seeing a large increase in cases or hospitalizations,” said San Diego County Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten.

NBC 7’s Alexis Rivas spoke with the county’s chief public health official and a primary care doctor to find out why.