Scripps Health to help run hospital along US-Mexico border
19-Apr-16, Fierce Healthcare
Scripps Health will work with a Mexican health insurer to create the region's first hospital aimed to meet the needs of the growing number of Southern Californians who seek medical care south of the border.
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The California non-profit healthcare system announced that it will work with Sistemas Medicos Nacionales S.A. de C.V. (SIMNSA) to help the insurer run the facility in in Tijuana, Mexico. The insurer will design, build and operate the facility, which will seek accreditation from the international arm of the Joint Commission. The facility will be an affiliate of the Scripps Health Network.
The affiliation will transform healthcare delivery in the region, Frank Carrillo, president and CEO of SIMNSA, said.