Sharp HealthCare
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| Not-for-profit hospital system | |
| Industry | Health Care |
| Founded | San Diego, California (1955) |
| Headquarters | San Diego, United States |
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Key people
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Michael Murphy, President |
| Revenue |
 2.7 billion USD (Fiscal year ended September 30, 2012) |
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Number of employees
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16,000 |
| Website | Sharp.com |
Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit integrated regional health care delivery system located in San Diego. Sharp includes four acute-care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, two affiliated medical groups and a health plan. Sharp operates 2,100 beds, has approximately 2,600 physicians on medical staffs, more than 1,000 physicians in affiliated medical groups and more than 16,000 employees.
In November 2007, Sharp HealthCare was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Sharp was one of five organizations to receive the award, which is the nation’s highest Presidential honor for quality and organizational performance excellence.
Sharp was the first health care provider in California and the eighth in the nation to receive this recognition.
Other awards bestowed on Sharp HealthCare include:
• In 2013, Sharp was awarded nine Guardian of Excellence Awards and four Beacon of Excellence Awards from the Press Ganey organization for achievement in a range of quality measures.
• Sharp HealthCare ranked in 5th place in the large company-size category of California's Best Places to Work program
• Sharp HealthCare named one of the nation's "Most Wired", according to the results of the 2013 Most Wired Survey in Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
• Sharp HealthCare is named one of the best places to work in information technology in 2013 (Sharp ranked sixth).
The first Sharp hospital opened in 1955 as Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital, a nonprofit facility in San Diego. Funding for the facility ded a 1950 donation of $500,000 from a rancher and radio communications pioneer named Thomas E. Sharp, in memory of his son, US Army Air Corps Lt. Donald N. Sharp, who had been killed in World War II. By 1952, more than $2.5 million had been donated by 1,300 individuals, families, and businesses. The groundbreaking for Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital took place in 1953.
Sharp HealthCare has pioneered many medical firsts. Some of these include:
Sharp HealthCare provides the following services at various hospitals within the Sharp system.
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