Ruth Brooks is the new Chief Operating Officer at San Juan Regional Medical Center. She began her career at SJRMC in 2002 as the director of Radiology and the Cancer Treatment Center. She was promoted to Vice President of Professional Services and Accreditation in 2008. Since then, Brooks has added Regulatory Compliance and Support Services as areas she leads as Vice President.
The military has been on the front lines of the pandemic. Military medical teams have been dispatched to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID. Two of those teams are from San Diego.
As hospitals fill up in the county because of COVID, emergency room delays are causing back-ups with ambulances having to wait longer to drop off patients. Meanwhile, we have more information on San Diego city employees seeking medical or religious exemptions from the covid-19 vaccine mandate. Plus, the United States has officially resumed its policy of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico as their pending cases play out.