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Sharp HealthCare Friday broke ground on the new Prebys Innovation & Education Center, named in recognition of a $5 million challenge grant from The Conrad Prebys Foundation.

Sharp Healthcare doctor says telehealth visits are here to stay, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little

Telemedicine skyrocketed in popularity in the last year due to the coronavirus pandemic and because of it’s convenience, one local doctor thinks it’s here to stay.

Seven months. That’s how long it’s been since Rick Banuelos left Sharp Memorial Hospital after battling COVID-19. It’s also been seven months of rehabilitation for the Chula Vista man who says he is considered a long hauler. “I got rear-ended,” Banuelos said of his COVID-19 diagnosis. “It was one of those things where you just don’t know where it...

Scripps Health will require employees to be fully vaccinated by next month or they will no longer be employed, Scripps Health said in a statement.

Local hospitals are implementing vaccination requirements for its employees, and at one of the hospitals, employees could find themselves out of work if not vaccinated. NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry reports.

The latest county data shows that San Diego is close to hitting two more hospital-capacity triggers.

At least one San Diego County hospital is approaching capacity due to a surge on COVID-19 cases. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has the story.

UC San Diego Health said a consortium that included itself, Sharp HealthCare, Scripps Health, and Rady Children’s Hospital saved at least 97 lives in 2020 and 2021

Hundreds of cruise ship crew members began getting their COVID-19 shot Wednesday morning at the Port of San Diego, making it the first port in California to offer vaccines to such workers.

Cruise ship crew members will receive their first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in town, making San Diego the first port in California to be doing this. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more information.

Sharp has run the South Bay Vaccination Supersite in Chula Vista since it opened in January, when hundreds of people made appointments on Day One. Vaccination interest, however, has slowed to a trickle on Wednesday.

Carmela Coyle, the President and CEO of the California Hospital Association, says the pandemic has stripped hospitals and made them financially vulnerable despite relief seeping through.

“The pandemic has now left a majority of California’s hospitals financially challenged, unstable and, in some cases, broken,” an officials tells NBC 7’s Claudette Stefanian.

Sharp HealthCare is hosting the 2021 Sharp Women’s Health Conference–Which will be held virtually this year

As eligibility opens up across California, some vaccination sites say they need more volunteers to administer the shot as the demand for the vaccine increases

In San Diego County, many people looking for a vaccination are finding a way to expedite the process by volunteering at local vaccination super stations, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda.

In San Diego County, many people looking for a vaccination are finding a way to expedite the process by volunteering at local vaccination super stations.

NBC 7 visited Sharp HealthCare’s vaccination station at Grossmont Center in La Mesa and spoke with San Diegans who had just received their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Some San Diego County residents — frustrated with second-dose appointment cancellations at the Petco Park vaccination super station — have found another way to get that final shot.