Cheryl Clark

While the San Diego County HIV numbers were dropping from 492 cases in 2011 to 467 in 2013, the latest numbers indicate a slight resurgence, with 13 more cases in 2014 than in 2013.

A major San Diego hospital’s yearlong video surveillance of women undergoing surgery to track missing drugs raises questions about hospital operations and security.

The La Mesa hospital's security operations turned to video surveillance when anesthesia drugs started disappearing from surgery carts. Images of women undergoing surgery were captured in the process.

The county’s rate is higher than all other urban counties in California, in part because of Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns. Sharp has a high rate of C-sections and delivers more babies than any other hospital in the state.

An increasing number of procedures are done at outpatient facilities, and patients have had little data to help them make comparisons. That is about to change, at least in part.

The report by the Leapfrog Group, which represents employers who buy health coverage, provides information consumers can use about two types of potentially deadly infections. The data is more specific than what Medicare offers.