Maya Srikrishnan

Dec 4, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Maya Srikrishnan |Cole Novak

Ernest Rady and his wife, Evelyn, came to San Diego from Manitoba, Canada in 1966 simply looking for a home where Evelyn’s allergies wouldn’t be so bad. “We tried several places, and we ended up in San Diego, and she hasn’t had allergies in 60 years,” Rady says. “So that was a good move.”Little did the Radys realize that, within a few decades, it would be impossible to live in San Diego without knowing their name.

Nov 5, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Maya Srikrishnan |Grace Kiehnle

Six days before 9/11, Dilkhwaz Ahmed arrived in the US from the Kurdistan region of Iraq to attend a conference. Ahmed, who had opened one of the first women’s domestic violence shelters in Iraq, applied for asylum after the attack, knowing she couldn’t go back. She already received threats at home for providing shelter for women and could sense that the situation would get worse. Yet her efforts never stopped.

Oct 15, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Maya Srikrishnan |Grace Kiehnle

For Rady Children’s Hospital, the future means expansion. In August of last year, Rady broke ground on a new, seven-story tower. The facility, estimated to cost upwards of $1.2 billion, will house 140 intensive care unit beds and four operating rooms, doubling the size of the emergency department and enlarging the space dedicated to providing behavioral health services. The building will include a cardiac intensive care unit (ICU), a pediatrics ICU, and a neonatal ICU.

Oct 7, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Maya Srikrishnan |Grace Kiehnle

San Diego is getting grayer. The number of people 65 and older in San Diego County is going to double by 2030. The fastest-growing demographic in the county is residents 85 and older. With the program “UCSD at Home,” UC San Diego Health is trying to meet this increasing need in a way that is better for seniors. UCSD offers senior clinics as part of its primary care services and houses accredited geriatric emergency departments.

Oct 7, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Maya Srikrishnan |Grace Kiehnle

If Sharp HealthCare had a word of the year, it’d be “tech.” In 2024, Sharp deployed a single platform for medical records, making it easier for staff and patients to access important information. The hospital group also launched its new Sharp app to give patients and their family members access to this centralized platform. Sharp.com is about 20 years old at this point, and it was time for an upgrade, says Dan Exley, the interim chief information and innovation officer.