Timothy Holden, MD

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About

Combining outpatient internal medicine with inpatient hospital medicine, Timothy Holden, MD serves Chula Vista from the Sharp Rees-Stealy campus on East Palomar Street in the Eastlake area. His hospitalist scope encompasses inpatient medicine at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, managing complex admissions within the same Medical Center Drive corridor that houses Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista — the two institutions anchoring Chula Vista's highest-volume healthcare zone. A graduate of St. George's University School of Medicine with additional training at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, he built a practice treating respiratory, cardiac, and sepsis-related conditions requiring both inpatient and ambulatory management. The Sharp Rees-Stealy Otay Ranch site on East Palomar Street provides integrated access to on-site laboratory and imaging, minimizing external referrals for diagnostic blood work, chest X-rays, and EKGs. Outpatient care pathways include post-discharge rehabilitation coordination with community wellness providers including Kyra Kare Health & Wellness for patients transitioning from acute hospital stays back to independent self-management. Highest-acuity hospitalist cases involve managing ventilator-associated pneumonia, acute decompensated heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and multi-organ sepsis requiring concurrent vasopressor titration and broad-spectrum antibiotic stewardship protocols.