Sharp Mesa Vista News Today

Gift helps fund massive building program now getting underway in San Diego's Serra Mesa neighborhood

As San Diego County prepares to launch CARE Court, two men reflect on how they were changed by the current system

San Diego is up against the clock to implement a new state-mandated system that compels people with certain mental illnesses into care.

Catalina Bellizzi called her painting a love letter to future patients at Shiley Intensive Care Unit at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital.

Two years ago San Diego’s police chief made a promise: racial disparities in police encounters would go down. That promise, so far, has been empty, according to a new analysis by reporter Will Huntsberry.

A new reporting project shows San Diego is in a mental crisis with the health care system overwhelmed and undermanned at multiple levels.

Two nurses from Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital aren’t just helping patients in their halls, but those without homes on San Diego’s streets.

In the first part of a three-day narrative, a woman hearing voices tells her family she’s in danger. Then she grabs two knives.

In the third part of a three-day narrative, an officer at a car crash reaches for his radio to call for help. He doesn’t get to it in time.

For three days last year, reporters followed patients, police, clinicians, dispatchers and those struggling for help to create a minute-by-minute account of an overwhelmed system