Thanks to a generous $25 million lead gift from Debbie and Warner Lusardi, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas is beginning phase two of its master plan. The centerpiece is the Lusardi Tower, a new, 185,000-square-foot hospital building with 64 private inpatient rooms, surgical suites and a state-of-the-art intensive care unit. It will be equipped with the latest wireless technologies, flexible surgical suites, and advanced digital monitoring and telemedicine capabilities.
36 Private Medical/Surgical Beds
In keeping with our focus on delivering the right care in the right setting, the plan takes into consideration changing patient-centered health care trends, such as private patient rooms with designated family areas; nurse proximity to patients; the evolution of wireless technology and advanced equipment; and efficient use of natural resources.
Philanthropic giving will allow our board-certified critical care physicians and intensive care specialists to expand their ability to care for critical patients, whether due to serious illness, severe injury, or major surgery.
The new operating rooms — and especially the hybrid room meant for larger teams and more complex procedures — will allow us to heal, enhance, and save more lives. Each new room will be outfitted with cutting edge technology allowing for the most sophisticated and minimally invasive methods of care.
The generosity of our donors will expand the number of new parents we can care for at our hospital, and enhance the postpartum experience for new families.
Your support will help us build the campus of the future with our patients at the center of all we do.
Campus of the Future
New Hospital Tower
16 Intensive Care Unit Beds
6 Operating Rooms, Including 1 Hybrid Operating Room
16 Postpartum Beds in Birth Center
Leichtag Critical Care Pavilion
The Leichtag Foundation Critical Care Pavilion, a 62,000-square-foot critical care building with a 38-bed emergency department and 36-private rooms, was completed in 2016.
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Part of Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center, the four-story facility that
was completed in 2021, includes state-of-the-art TrueBeam linear accelerators, numerous collaboration spaces, separate radiation oncology and infusion suites, floor to ceiling windows in our exam rooms, and patient consultation and
educational spaces.
Prebys Cancer Center
A new nine-story, 1300-spot parking structure will be built on an existing parking lot northeast of Sixth Avenue and Washington Street. It will provide easy access to the new hospital for our patients, visitors and staff via a pedestrian bridge.
Parking Structure
The hospital support building will include the hospital main lobby, a Chapel, laboratory services and cafeteria and waiting areas for patients and families. There will also be additional space for administrative services.
Hospital Support Building
The new hospital tower will include new surgery suites with two cardiac cath labs, EP lab, interventional radiology, one hybrid operating room and nine general surgery/operating rooms.
10 Operating Rooms, Including
1 Cardiac and
1 Hybrid
All women’s services will move to the new hospital tower, and will be served with a dedicated entry.
27 Postpartum Beds in Birth Center and
20 Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit Beds
Philanthropic giving will grow the number of patients we can see and treat at one time, including those who are critical due to serious illness, severe injury, or major surgery.
60 Intensive Care Unit Beds and
252Medical/
Surgical Beds
The new tower will expand our capabilities to provide care at Scripps Mercy Hospital in ways we’ve never seen. Donor generosity will touch maternal health, women's services, general surgery, intensive care, and more.
631,000-Square-Foot Hospital Tower
