Sharp HealthCare takes care of the largest number
of people in San Diego.
One of the many, many things that excites me
about the future of Sharp
is that Sharp is never satisfied with status quo.
It's about a relentless commitment to doing the best thing
for the patient and our community every time.
So it's something that excites me every day
and makes me happy to wake up in the morning to go to work.
I believe that that work will transform the healthcare
in this community
and I think it'll serve us for generations to come.
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Envision the San Diego of tomorrow.
By 2035, 4.5 million people will live
and work in our county,
a diverse and dynamic population.
An economy nurtured by ideas
and technologies yet to be imagined.
Homes, families and jobs widely spread
throughout our 18 cities and countless communities.
At Sharp HealthCare,
we envision the future from another perspective.
As San Diego's health care leader,
our responsibility is to predict
and to deliver the advanced technology,
talented professionals and modern health care centers
that San Diegans need and deserve,
now and long into the future.
Created not for profit, but for people,
the mission of Sharp HealthCare is to improve the health
of our communities, a story that began four generations ago.
[Thomas E. Sharp] The hospital will be something
which San Diego can rightfully be proud.
I wanna say that I'm very grateful to name this hospital,
The Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital
in memory of my son
and as a Memorial to all of the other boys
who gave their all for their country.
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It's an amazing San Diego story.
World War II changed everything
and especially from the terms of growth
and it was amazing that a group of individuals,
just a few dozen individuals came together
and determined that their community needed a new hospital.
And after perseverance for many years
and raising lots of funds,
they had a new hospital in San Diego,
the Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital
that opened in 1955.
And beginning in the early 1980s,
Sharp embarked upon a period of unprecedented growth
and affiliations and collaborations and partnerships
that would today become the largest health care provider
in San Diego.
And that was visionary leadership,
to bring all that together,
to bring those communities together
and not just those facilities.
And I think that is what makes the hallmark of Sharp today.
It is a San Diego health care provider,
it's for all of San Diego, from top to bottom,
from east to west.
And you know, the mission of Sharp HealthCare
is to improve the health of the community,
not just take care of the community.
Sharp has transformed health care for generations.
We've done it as a result of visionary leadership
but also through and inspired philanthropy.
At the core, it's not just about raising money
or building buildings,
it's about aspiring to excellence.
So, you began with an inception of a community hospital
to today, the largest health care provider in San Diego,
providing incredible care to an entire our community.
The future will bring
remarkable medical advancements.
Only Sharp HealthCare has the scope
and the resources to forecast
and to fund a 10-year $2 billion effort
to meet the needs of tomorrow
no matter how large the challenges or how small.
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The foundations of Sharp HealthCare
will provide major underwriting through ENVISION,
a 250 million philanthropic campaign
based on four aspirations of excellence.
This ensures that a gift to Sharp
will reflect each donor's own aspirations
for medical excellence
in ways especially meaningful to them.
Many donors will be inspired by the clinical innovations
and technology envisioned by Sharp.
We are building a highly advanced institute,
dedicated exclusively to disorders of the brain and spine
and expanding the only major hospital
serving our vibrant South Bay communities.
Philanthropy will support the future of critical specialties
as far reaching as cardiac and vascular surgery.
There's your sister.
Maternal fetal medicine, mental health,
and emergency and trauma medicine.
Improving caregiver knowledge and clinical skills
will be the focus of Sharp HealthCare's forward thinking
Prebys Innovation and Education Center.
And here will be the hub of one Sharp,
a new era of technology designed
to enhance the seamless delivery of the science of medicine
and the art of caring.
We call The Sharp Experience.
For some donors gifts will be directed
to making a difference in their own community,
an enduring legacy
that only world class health care can provide.
Our family believes that a first class health care system
is a vital part of a community.
And I am proud to say that we have five generations
of our family that continue the legacy
of supporting Sharp HealthCare
by donating money, land and service,
because in the end of the day,
we're all the same and we all deserve quality health care.
And at Sharp you're treated as family
and family always comes first.
The people of Sharp have envisioned
what our aspirations of excellence will mean
for the San Diego of tomorrow.
We invite you to partner with us
as we transform vision into reality.
This is the original shovel from 1953.
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I've seen tremendous growth at Sharp HealthCare.
So my vision for the future
is to never stop striving for excellence,
to view your institution as a palace
in which people work and strive to do good
and who sometimes create miracles.
We have a palace where we do magical, wonderful things.