San Diego-based institution started in 1924 with a 57-bed hospital and clinic. It now has 5 hospitals and 19 outpatient clinics.
Scripps celebrates it’s 100th anniversary on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024 in San Diego, California. Today, Scripps Health runs five hospitals and 19 outpatient centers, employing more than 13,000 people across San Diego County. And Scripps Research has produced six Nobel laureates and numerous FDA-approved drugs.
Ellen Browning Scripps arrived in San Diego a multimillionaire with a fortune estimated to be the equivalent of $3 billion today. But she came from equally humble roots, caring for relations on the family farm in Illinois after emigrating from London with her family in 1844. It is easy to think, at the 100-year mark, that Ellen Browning Scripps would have been amazed by how those seeds she planted on Prospect Street have grown. But then again, maybe not. This was a woman, notes Dr. Sarita Eastman, a San Diego pediatrician and author, who lived through the Civil War and witnessed the accelerating pace of change that occurred at the turn of the century.
“It’s important that we remember that these were both remarkable women in their time, and a big part of what we have to do every day is sustain their legacy which has always been taking care of the community.”Ellen Browning Scripps at the Hospital Dedication in 1924. Group of staff of Scripps Memorial Hospital on Prospect St in the 1920s.
Dr. Jonathan Zumwalt and Dr. Hubert Greenway examine a patient at the Scripps Shiley Pavilion on Torrey Pines Mesa. Over the years, he said, offers have come from all over. Once, a good friend tried to get him to come to Winston, Salem, N.C., while he simultaneously tried to pull his counterpart west to San Diego. Both ended up staying put.
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