Benefits

At San Ysidro Health, our people are our foundation. We are proud to offer benefits that support your health, well-being, financial security, and growth, so you can focus on doing meaningful work for the communities we serve.

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Your Rewards – A Benefits Package Built Around Your Needs

Whether you are caring for your family, planning for the future, or looking for balance in your day-to-day life, SYHealth offers benefits that help you feel supported. Eligible employees have access to a range of healthcare, wellness, time off, retirement, and voluntary benefit options.

Your Health

Medical, dental, vision, wellness, and support resources to help you care for yourself and your family.

Your Future

Retirement plan options, employer-paid benefits, and opportunities to plan ahead.

Your Well-Being

Employee assistance, chiropractic and acupuncture benefits, paid time off, and wellness resources.

Your Growth

Professional development, internal growth opportunities, and access to learning resources.

Who Is Eligible for Benefits?

Employees working 20 hours or more per week are eligible to participate in San Ysidro Health’s benefits program. Eligible employees may also enroll qualifying dependents, including spouses, registered domestic partners, dependent children up to age 26, and adopted, foster, or domestic partner’s children.

Your Health

SYHealth offers multiple No Cost to Low-Cost healthcare options so eligible employees can choose coverage that works for them and their families.

Medical
- Sharp HMO + Nonstop Health
- Sharp POS + Nonstop Health
- SIMNSA Cross Border HMO

The Sharp plans include Nonstop Health which is a Medical Expense Reimbursement Plan (MERP) to lower and eliminate out-of-pocket expenses for employees.

Dental & Vision Coverage

Other Benefits Include
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Chiropractic & Acupuncture benefits
- Employee Assistant Program
- Discount programs for entertainment, travel, and everyday savings

Your Future

Eligible employees have access to retirement savings that include employer contribution plans that can help support long-term financial goals.

We’re investing in your future, even if you can’t right now
- 403(b) retirement plan 
- 4% Employer Contribution regardless of employee participation
- 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan
- 162 Bonus Plan
- Premiums Contributed by SYHealth

SYHealth provides benefit options that help eligible employees prepare for unexpected events to protect what matters most.

- Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage
- Long Term Disability coverage
- Emergency Travel assistance
- Voluntary accident, disability, cancer, critical illness, whole life, and term life coverage
- LegalShield and IDShield options 

Your Well-Being

Wellness for Employees’ Life & Living is our wholeperson framework supporting the 8 Dimensions of Wellness: physical, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, and financial. Our initiatives engage multiple dimensions to keep wellness accessible, inclusive, and sustainable.SYHealth offers multiple No Cost to Low-Cost healthcare options so eligible employees can choose coverage that works for them and their families.

Core Initiatives
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TakeABreak: A daily recovery practice that protects short moments for staff to pause, reset, and recharge through microbreaks, restoration spaces, creative activities, and stress reduction education.

Code Lavender: A preventive and reactive emotional support system that operationalizes compassion through moraleboosting rounds and immediate comfort resources during moments of stress or loss. 
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Leading WELL: A leadership development initiative that equips leaders to center wellness in daily practice and strengthen a culture of care across the organization.

SYHealth is more than a workplace. It is a community where employees are encouraged to participate, collaborate and contribute. Through our employee-led Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Groups, team members connect with colleagues across sites, engage in meaningful dialogue and build professional networks that support their careers.The Sharp plans include Nonstop Health which is a Medical Expense Reimbursement Plan (MERP) to lower and eliminate out-of-pocket expenses for employees.

Time Away From Work
SYHealth provides paid time away from work so eligible employees can take time for rest, personal needs, and life outside of work.
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Time off benefits may include:
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- Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave & Supplemental Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Continued Education Days
- Jury Duty Leave

Your Growth

At SYHealth, we believe that caring for our community starts with investing in our people. We create opportunities for employees to learn, grow and connect through engaging learning experiences that build skills and support career development.
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Core Initiatives

Professional Skills Development: Virtual and in-person learning opportunities focused on communication, collaboration, conflict resolution and other workplace effectiveness skills.

Team Development: Customized workshops and facilitated learning experiences designed to strengthen teamwork, trust, collaboration and connection.

Leadership Development: Through programs such as Leading WELL and other leadership learning experiences, we help current and future leaders build the skills to engage, motivate and develop high-performing teams.

Continued Education and Tuition Reimbursement: To support our employees who want to expand their knowledge, develop skills, and advance their careers, we offer both Continued Education and Tuition Reimbursement programs.

Testimonials

But what I want people to really understand is this: everything I have been able to build in my career here has been directly because of the benefits San Ysidro Health invests in its people. My growth was not accidental. It was made possible.
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The Learning and Development opportunities, the tuition reimbursement, the paid time off, and the flexibility to actually pursue growth while still doing my job well are the exact reasons I have been able to advance the way I have.
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Tina D.

Dental Operations Manager

I am really grateful for our health benefits. My husband was hospitalized at Sharp last year for about 2 weeks and even though we owed about $5,000 dollars in medical bills, I just paid it with my Nonstop card and we were debt free.
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Desiree L.

Patient Services Repetitive

When I joined SYHealth in 2022, I was included in an email conversation regarding a candidate for a Patient Navigator position. The hiring team shared overwhelmingly positive feedback about the interview experience and recognized how the candidate's lived experiences would strengthen their ability to support our patients with empathy and compassion.

Reading that conversation was a defining moment for me. It showed me that SYHealth values more than resumes alone. The organization genuinely cares about the patient experience and seeks team members who reflect our mission and values. From that very early experience, I realized I had joined an organization that puts people first, both the patients we serve and the employees who make that service possible. The culture of compassion and advocacy is one of the reasons I am proud to be part of SYHealth.
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Kaylen A.

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About Us

Originally established along the U.S. / Mexico border in 1969, the organization was founded by a group of mothers in search of medical services for their children. Over 50 years later, San Ysidro Health now provides innovative care to hundreds of thousands of lives in our care through a vast and integrated network of 50 program sites across San Diego County.

Patient Impact

San Ysidro Health is a place where children come to get the care they need to grow into strong and healthy adults. We have invested in the health of our children for nearly 50 years, and payoff has been huge. Ten of thousands of children have grown into healthy, successful adults because of the extraordinary, compassionate and comprehensive care we provide.