The Coronado Roundtable on Friday hosted its first monthly meeting of the year with Scott Evans, the Regional Market CEO for Sharp Healthcare Regional Hospitals.
Evans, the inaugural speaker as the group kicked off its 40th year, said he has been with Sharp Coronado for about a month and a half, and he’s in charge of Sharp Grossmont Hospital, Chula Vista Medical Center and Coronado.
Prior to Evans, the CEO role was filled by Dr. Susan Stone, who recently stepped into a larger role for all of Sharp as the senior vice president of Health System Operations and System Chief Nursing Executive.
The Roundtable discussion prompted conversation about the future of the Coronado location.
“What was important to us was that we never compromise anything related to patient care and that we’re able to grow high quality programs,” Evans said. “That’s what we aim to do by lumping these hospitals under one chief executive hospital. I am charged with bringing together the strategy of these three hospitals.”
Evan’s presentation at the Coronado Public Library touched on four key points — the heritage of partnership, achievements of the hospital, future plans and the details on the recent construction project.
The Sharp Coronado Hospital has a long list of accomplishments, Evans said.
It is the only five-star hospital location within Sharp, a status level achieved through the commitment of the medical and frontline staff.
The hospital has geriatric emergency department accreditation and is acute stroke ready. It is the only hospital recognized from Sharp to receive the Leapfrog Award, given to the highest performing hospitals, and it’s graded ‘A’ in safety, and performs robotic-assisted bariatric surgery.
Current ongoing construction is happening on location, and emergency room renovations will begin in April.
The emergency room will take the place of the old ICU, which was recently relocated to the fourth floor, complete with new rooms. All renovations are projected to be done by summer 2025.
“The take home message here is that the emergency department is extremely important to us,” said Evans. “It’s extremely important to the people that live in Coronado to be able to access that high level care in a comfortable environment.”
The Roundtable discussion ended with a question and answer session, and community members asked about plans to extend long-term care, what the cancer program looks like, and whether or not the hospital would consider adding an urgent care unit.
The questions prompted conversation about the ICU unit on the fourth floor, the outpatient pavilion with robotic assisted technology, and that the majority of the patient population comes from the island, but the number of off-island patients continues to rise.
