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Two doctors--Dwight Cook, and Charles Clark--began a medical-dental office building in Encinitas, CA, at Santa Fe Drive and Devonshire Road in 1960. This small office building was replaced in 1963 by a larger, 60-bed hospital on the same site, first called "Encinitas Convalescent Hospital." This facility opened in the spring of 1964. According to the Scripps Encinitas web site: "Later that year, the hospital’s third founding physician, Ronald Summers, joined the practice of Drs. Cook and Clark. They obtained a medical specialty license and converted some of the long-term care beds to acute care beds, enabling them to start taking care of medical illnesses. By 1966, the hospital was upgraded to a specialized hospital for internal medicine and was renamed Encinitas Hospital." (See "Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas Marks 50th Anniversary," Scripps Memorial Hospital,Accessed 04/25/2014.) The three founding physicians planned for expansion in 1967, buying a neighboring land parcel. To enable further growth, the three entered into a business partnership and decided to build an even larger, full-service hospital with 94 beds. It had all of the features of a modern hospital: surgeons and specialized surgical rooms, an intensive care center, and a fully-functional and well-staffed emergency room. This enlarged entity was rechristened "San Dieguito Hospital" in 1975. The three then realized that they needed to have a well-funded partner with high medical standards to back their facility. They proposed that Scripps Health, based in San Diego, take over their institution, making it part of its developing hospital system serving the San Diego metropolitan area. The merger went through and the San Dieguito Hospital became "Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas" in 1978.

Tel: 60-479-3900 (2014).

Since its founding, this hospital has undergone rapid enlargement. In 1992, Scripps Health added a new second-floor rehabilitation center, introduced an new birth center, increased the size of its emergency room, built a new lobby and added over 60 beds to his acute-care facility. It has been certified as a primary care facility in San Diego County for stroke and heart attack patients. The hospital also began c. 2012 the construction of a 61,643-square-foot Critical Care building that was slated for completion in 2014. It would add 27 new emergency room beds, doubling current capacity, and provide 36 new beds for medical-surgery patients. In 2014, Scripps listed three separate medical addresses in Encinitas: the main hospital at 477 North El Camino Real, its Saxony Road facility at 345 Saxony Road, Suite 205, and the Santa Fe Drive facility at 332 Santa Fe Drive, Suite 115.

PCAD id: 19196