Daily Business Report-Aug. 12, 2019
Rendering of the Prebys Cancer Center.
$59 million Prebys Cancer Center breaks ground
A $59 million state-of-the-art cancer center designed to serve patients throughout central and south San Diego County took a big step forward with a groundbreaking ceremony Friday on the campus of Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego.
The outpatient facility, to be known as Prebys Cancer Center, will offer a comprehensive range of cancer treatment and support services. The 40,000-square-foot, four-story center is named for the late Conrad Prebys, who in 2016 pledged a $20 million gift toward the facility and a $5 million gift for an endowed medical director position at Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center. The gifts and facility name were officially announced Friday.
Prebys Cancer Center will be part of the Scripps MD Anderson partnership and will be located on Fifth Avenue on the campus of the main hospital in Hillcrest. The facility represents the first new construction in Scripps Mercy’s master redevelopment plan and is expected to be open for patient care in spring 2022.
Patients at Prebys Cancer Center will have access to leading-edge radiation therapy technology, including two TrueBeam linear accelerators, which deliver external beam radiation treatments with exceptional accuracy and speed. Additionally, the facility will house a 20-chair infusion center, where chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and other treatments will be delivered. The new center also will include spaces for treatment planning conferences, patient exams and consultations, physician offices and patient support services. A new 140-space parking garage, expected to open in 2022, will adjoin the facility.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
partners with city to study kelp forests’ health
By Dave Schwab | sdnews.com
In partnership with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the city of San Diego will spend $3.6 million in a five-year study of the region’s kelp forests to determine their overall health and future outlook with global warming.
Thus far, it’s going well, said SIO researcher Ed Parnell.
“It’s basically a continuation of the work we’ve been doing over the years by different agencies,” he said of the new study. “It’s to determine the status of the kelp forest in North County, La Jolla and Point Loma, along with a census of the different animal and plant species that share the ecosystem from the water bottom to the surface, measuring current oxygen and nutrient levels.”
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Cuyamaca College receives national
recognition for developmental education reforms
Cuyamaca College’s efforts to transform the way that students are taught math, English and English as a Second Language have been recognized by a national organization that promotes Latino success in higher education.
The Rancho San Diego college was the only California community college selected as a finalist for the 2019 Examples of Excelencia, a national recognition for programs advancing opportunity for Latinx students in higher education. Sixteen finalists were selected from a field of more than 166 nominated programs from 32 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Winners in four categories will be selected by Excelencia in Education at their annual Celebración de Excelencia event on Oct. 24 in Washington, DC.
Cuyamaca College was the first community college in California to scale its developmental reform efforts. The college eliminated remedial courses in math, English, and English as a Second Language, adopted changes to course placement policies, and provided support to students who needed it when placed into a transfer-level course.
As a result of those steps, Latinx students increased successful completion of transfer-level English from 38 percent to 66 percent, and in transfer-level math from 15 percent to 65 percent. Completion rates in math for all first-time students increased from 23 percent to 67 percent, and in English from 38 percent to 79 percent.
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Maryana Khames and Jeffrey Krinsk appointed
to Cal State University Board of Trustees
Maryana Khames, 18, of El Cajon, and Jeffrey Krinsk, 70, of San Diego, have been appointed to the California State University Board of Trustees by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Khames has been a student assistant at the Center for Student Success in Engineering and a justice on the Judicial Affairs Council for Associated Students at San Diego State University since 2018 and a marketing intern at Partners in College Success since 2019. She was a district representative for the Office of California State Sen. Joel Anderson from 2016 to 2017. Khames is a Democrat.
Krinsk has been chief executive officer and managing partner of Finkelstein and Krinsk since 2005. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Fabulous Inn America Inc. from 1985 to 1987, president of licensing at Guess? Inc. from 1983 to 1985 and vice president and general counsel at Hang Ten International from 1978 to 1983. Krinsk was executive officer at Norton and Christensen from 1975 to 1977. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Boston University School of Law. Krinsk is a Democrat.
The positions do not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem.
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San Diego ranked No. 1 U.S airport
The best U.S. airport is San Diego International, and the other western airports in the Top 5 are Arizona’s Phoenix Sky Harbor International, California’s Sacramento International and Oregon’s Portland International, according to new study by The Points Guy travel website.
The study evaluated the nation’s 50 busiest airports, judging them on 34 factors, including flight delays, cancellations, security wait times, parking fees, public transportation, ride-hailing prices, restaurants and lounges.
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New Chinese, Global Education
Center launched at SDSU
San Diego State University is launching a new Chinese Cultural Center, which will support Chinese cultural education as well as the university’s expanded focus on international and binational awareness, education and partnerships.
The newly launched center, approved this month, will be sponsored by the College of Education to support cultural, historical, linguistic, artistic and political knowledge and awareness of China and the broader Asia Pacific Region.
This follows the closure and transfer of the Confucius Institute at SDSU earlier this summer, as reported in the Los Angeles Times last month. SDSU closed and transferred the institute on June 30, 2019 to San Diego Global Knowledge University. With the transfer, the education initiatives and services once offered by the institute when it was held at SDSU will be offered by the San Diego Global Knowledge University. The university is no longer affiliated with nor receiving funding from Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters in Beijing.
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PSAR to sponsor charity fundraiser
The Pacific Southwest Association of Realtors’ (PSAR) Young Professionals Network (YPN) group will host a “Saddle-up and Hold’em,” a charity fundraiser and after-work mixer from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Seven Mile Casino, 285 Bay Blvd., Chula Vista. All Realtors in San Diego County are invited to attend. Appetizers and drinks will be served. Activities will include networking, gaming and raffle prize give-aways. Suggested donation is $10 per person and proceeds will benefit Saddles in Service, a Descanso-based equestrian nonprofit that promotes wellness and healing from stress and depression foractive-duty and retired military and first responders. YPN focuses on connecting and engaging the next generation of Realtors with the tools and encouragement they need to succeed. For more information about PSAR’s YPN, contact Sergio Hernandez at sergio@psar.org.
