Sharp Grossmont Hospital Care Clinic in La Mesa's Grossmont area launched in 2018 as a dedicated outpatient facility at 8851 Center Drive, adjacent to the 540-bed Sharp Grossmont Hospital campus. Heart-and-lung evaluation, orthopedic assessment, sports medicine, and women's health operate from Suite 600, creating a post-acute bridge between inpatient discharge and step-down recovery — a continuum that extends to skilled nursing at Community Care Center for patients requiring sub-acute rehabilitation. The clinic launched after Sharp Grossmont identified that roughly one-third of its emergency department volume involved conditions treatable in a non-emergent outpatient setting, making the Care Clinic an ER diversion resource for East County. Specialty pharmacy services on the same floor allow patients to fill post-procedure and post-surgical prescriptions without a second trip, consolidating discharge workflows within the Center Drive building. Orthopedic and sports medicine evaluations at the Care Clinic produce musculoskeletal rehabilitation plans, with spinal and joint cases distributing across La Mesa's manual-therapy network — San Diego Chiropractic Doctors receives post-clearance referrals for adjustment-based protocols. Highest-tier services include nonstress testing for high-risk obstetric patients, post-cardiac-catheterization wound surveillance, and AAOS-protocol post-operative evaluations following total knee and hip arthroplasty performed across the Sharp Grossmont campus.