Scripps Health To Build New Medical Center Campus In North County

SAN MARCOS, CA — Scripps Health announced plans to build a new medical center campus in northern San Diego County.

The Scripps San Marcos Medical Center campus will include an ambulatory care facility and acute care hospital.

The campus will be located on a 13-acre site south of state Route 78 near Twin Oaks Valley Parkway. Scripps purchased roughly 80 acres in San Marcos for a medical center campus in 1990.

"We acquired the San Marcos property 35 years ago, but it wasn't the right time to build," Chris Van Gorder, president and CEO of Scripps Health, said in a statement.

"Our patient population in the area has since grown to the point that it made sense for us to move forward. Scripps provides care to many residents of the San Marcos region today and this campus will expand access and make care more convenient for these patients and their families."

Scripps plans to first construct the ambulatory care facility, which will include multi-specialty and primary care physician offices, ambulatory surgery, cancer care, complex imaging, laboratory and other services. Plans are also underway for a 200- to 250-bed acute care hospital that will provide a broad range of inpatient and outpatient hospital services.

"A major player like Scripps choosing to invest in San Marcos is exciting on so many levels," San Marcos Mayor Rebecca Jones said in a statement. "We have worked hard to become a premier health care hub in the region, which not only supports a strong local economy but contributes to the ultimate goal of making San Marcos a place where people live long, healthy lives."