If he didn’t respect his mother’s wishes so much, he probably would have ended up organizing tours in a Nepali forest or expeditions in the Himalayan mountains instead of saving lives in an Intensive Care Unit. Palomar UC San Diego Health Escondido Chief of Medical Staff Elect Kanchan Koirala, M.D., has worked as a critical ... Read more

April is Child Abuse Prevention and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Following tradition, Palomar UC San Diego Health Forensic Health Services placed 1,408 pinwheels, representing each child abuse and sexual assault survivor they served last year, at the entrance to Palomar UC San Diego Health Poway and the lawn adjacent to Palomar UC San Diego Health ... Read more

In celebration of Doctors’ Day, we are highlighting the Chief of Staff Elect at Palomar UC San Diego Health Poway who is a model for not letting rejection get in the way of his dreams. Sam Filiciotto, M.D., was rejected by all the medical schools he applied to in 1975, upon graduation from Duke University ... Read more

The Palomar UC San Diego Health Escondido Birth Center is providing all spring 2021 newborns with seasonal keepsakes. Starting March 20, 2021 (the first day of spring), nurses began taking footprints of each baby and adding them as petals of a flower or wings of a butterfly to a unique spring-themed birth certificate. The congratulatory ... Read more

Thank you to all the staff, volunteers and patients for making this milestone possible! With each dose, we’re making our community a safer place. It was a lucky St. Patrick’s Day for Deegee Mehew as she was our 10,000th vaccine recipient! Deegee is no stranger to Palomar UC San Diego Health. In February 2020, she ... Read more