加州圣迭戈县东南部新急诊中心开业：Blue Shield Promise投100万美元，San Ysidro Health为15.3万居民提供就近急诊
位于美国加利福尼亚州圣迭戈县的 San Diego 东南部：Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan 10月26日宣布投资100万美元，支持 San Ysidro Health 在 Joe & Vi Jacobs Center 新设的东南部 San Diego 急诊中心（SESD Urgent Care Center），该中心已开业，为当地逾15.3万名居民提供就近、及时的急诊服务。
新中心面积约3300平方英尺，设在 Joe & Vi Jacobs Center 内，上周五举行剪彩开业活动，州众议员 LaShae Sharp-Collins、圣迭戈县县政委员 Monica Montgomery Steppe 与 San Diego 市议员 Henry L. Foster III 出席致辞。中心由本地医疗机构 San Ysidro Health 运营，作为急诊室之外的社区替代选择，除处理即时健康需求外，还提供化验与基础放射服务，并把患者转介到持续性的初级、预防与支持性照护，需要更高层级照护的患者则转往附近急诊室。
Blue Shield Promise 总裁兼首席执行官 Kristen Cerf 说：「能否及时就医不该取决于住在哪里。太多年来，东南部 San Diego 居民的急诊选择有限，许多人不得不为非急症跑急诊室。我们支持 San Ysidro Health 新设的东南部 San Diego 急诊中心，将帮助减少就医障碍，让家庭在离家近的地方、在对的时间得到对的照护。」州众议员 Sharp-Collins 说，该设施「不只是提供医疗服务的通道，它代表机会，让这里的许多人不只是生存，而是兴旺」。San Ysidro Health 总裁兼首席执行官 Kevin Mattson 说：「我们东南 San Diego 的家庭不必再离开社区去获得重要的夜间照护。我们在这里，为带着生病孩子的上班父母、为照护年长亲人的家人，以及许多在正常门诊时间之外的就诊需求服务。」
据发布方介绍，东南部 San Diego 的慢性病负担高于该县其他地区：13%的居民生活在联邦贫困线以下，8%没有医疗保险，18%的家庭依靠 SNAP/CalFresh 食品补助，这些因素都加大了健康风险、增加了慢病防治难度。Blue Shield Promise 此前于2023年7月也曾投资支持 Family Health Centers of San Diego 在 El Cajon 开设急诊与心脏照护中心，扩大圣迭戈县东部居民的急诊与心脏照护可及性。
San Ysidro Health 是非营利机构，1969年由七位为孩子寻找医疗服务的母亲创办，目前在圣迭戈县有50个项目点，服务逾16.2万人次，涵盖医疗诊所、牙科、行为健康、艾滋病服务、妇婴营养、流动医疗、校内健康中心等。Blue Shield Promise 是 Blue Shield of California 全资拥有的 Medi-Cal 管理式医疗计划，在洛杉矶县与圣迭戈县服务逾50万名 Medi-Cal 会员，在 NCQA 2025年 Medicaid 健康计划评级中获4分（满分5分）。
New Urgent Care Center Opens in Southeastern San Diego, California: Blue Shield Promise Invests $1 Million as San Ysidro Health Serves 153,000 Residents
Southeastern San Diego, in San Diego County, California — Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan announced on Oct. 26 a $1 million community investment to support San Ysidro Health's new Southeastern San Diego (SESD) Urgent Care Center at the Joe & Vi Jacobs Center, which has opened to expand timely care close to home for the area's more than 153,000 residents.
The approximately 3,300-square-foot center, located within the Joe & Vi Jacobs Center, was celebrated at a ribbon-cutting event held Friday featuring remarks from Assemblymember Dr. LaShae Sharp-Collins, San Diego County Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe and San Diego City Councilmember Henry L. Foster III. Operated by San Ysidro Health, the center provides a community-based alternative to emergency room visits. In addition to treating immediate health needs, providers will connect patients to ongoing primary, preventive and supportive care, including laboratory and basic radiology services, while referring patients who require higher levels of care to nearby emergency rooms.
"Access to timely care should not depend on where someone lives. For too many years, Southeastern San Diego residents have had limited urgent care options, leading many to seek treatment in emergency rooms for non-emergency conditions," said Kristen Cerf, president and CEO of Blue Shield Promise. "Our support for San Ysidro Health's new Southeastern San Diego urgent care center will help reduce barriers to treatment and connect families to the right care at the right time, close to where they live." Assemblymember Sharp-Collins said the facility "represents opportunity for so many people to not just survive, but to thrive here within San Diego." San Ysidro Health president and CEO Kevin Mattson said: "Our Southeast San Diego families no longer need to leave the community for vital, after-hours care. We are here for the working parent with the sick child, the concerned caregiver of a senior loved one and so many other visits outside of normal operating hours."
Southeastern San Diego experiences a disproportionately high burden of chronic disease compared to other areas of the county, according to the announcement: 13% of residents live below the federal poverty level, 8% lack health insurance and 18% of households rely on SNAP/CalFresh benefits. In July 2023, Blue Shield Promise also supported the opening of Family Health Centers of San Diego's El Cajon Urgent and Cardiac Care Center to increase access for East County residents.
San Ysidro Health is a nonprofit organization founded in 1969 by seven mothers in search of medical services for their children. It now provides services to more than 162,000 lives through 50 program sites across San Diego County, including medical clinics, dental clinics, behavioral health centers, HIV centers, WIC nutrition centers, mobile medical units and school-based health centers. Blue Shield Promise, a Medi-Cal managed care organization wholly owned by Blue Shield of California, serves more than 500,000 Medi-Cal members across Los Angeles and San Diego counties and was rated 4 out of 5 in NCQA's Medicaid Health Plan Ratings for 2025.
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