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 UCSF Medical Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | San Francisco,California, USA |
| Coordinates | 37°45′47.67″N122°27′29.76″W / 37.7632417°N 122.4582667°W /37.7632417; -122.4582667 |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of California, San Francisco |
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| Beds | 796 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1907 |
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| Website | ucsfhealth |
| Lists | Hospitals in California |
TheUCSF Medical Center is ateaching hospital inSan Francisco, California, and is a medical center of theUniversity of California, San Francisco. It is affiliated with theUCSF School of Medicine and theUCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. UCSF Medical Center is a part ofUCSF Health, the healthcare delivery group and care-delivery arm ofUniversity of California, San Francisco.
It was founded in 1907 at the site of Parnassus Heights, onMount Sutro, following the 1906 earthquake, and it was the first hospital in theUniversity of California system. The university acquired Mount Zion Hospital in 1990, which became the second major clinical site and since 1999 has hosted the first comprehensive cancer center in Northern California. Beginning in 2001, the university expanded in theMission Bay neighborhood and added a new medical center with three new hospitals.
Within a month of the devastating1906 San Francisco earthquake, the faculty of the medical school voted to make room in their building for a teaching hospital by moving the departments responsible for the first two years of preclinical instruction acrossSan Francisco Bay to the Berkeley campus.
In March 1907, the new hospital opened with 75 beds. The immediate need for nurses to staff the new facility led to the founding of theUCSF nursing school.
In 1949, the UC Hospital was officially renamed the "University of California Medical Center."[1]
Mount Zion Hospital, which had opened in 1897, merged with UCSF in 1990.[2]
The medical center received a philanthropic donation of $100 million fromChuck Feeney in February 2015, the largest gift by an individual in the history of the UC system.[3] In 2018, UCSF received a commitment of $500 million for the construction of a new hospital, which will be built at Parnassus, replacing theLangley Porter Psychiatric Institute.[4]
UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights is located on the main campus of UCSF and includes the 600-bed teaching hospital of the same name along with theLangley Porter Psychiatric Institute, extensive research labs, the main branch of theUCSF Library, and is home to theUCSF School of Medicine,UCSF School of Nursing,UCSF School of Dentistry, andUCSF School of Pharmacy.[5]
CORRECTION: The Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute moved out of the Parnassus campus to the Mt. Zion campus in 2022 & is now located at Geary & Divisadero, San Francisco.
In June 2013, Becker's Hospital Review listed the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus as the 9th highest grossing hospital in America with a gross revenue of $6.88 billion.[6]
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay opened February 1, 2015 and hosts three hospitals (UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital,UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women's Hospital, andUCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital) and an outpatient facility. Overall, the 6-story medical center covers 878,000-square-foot and has 289 beds. It also has 4.3 acres of green space, including 100,000 square feet of ground landscaping and 60,000 square feet of rooftop gardens.[citation needed]
Mount Zion Hospital was planned in 1887 by members of the Jewish community in San Francisco.[7] It opened in 1897 and gradually became a major center of medical research. It coordinated with local Jewish organizations including the Eureka Benevolent Society (now Jewish Family and Children’s Services), Sinai Memorial Chapel funeral home, and the Federation of Jewish Charities.[7] By the 1980s, the Mount Zion Hospital was struggling financially.[7]
It merged with UCSF in 1989.[7] UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion now hosts specialty clinics, including theUCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Women's Health Center. Mount Zion includes a Surgery Center with 10 operating rooms and 90 beds.[5]
In 2024–25, UCSF Medical Center was ranked as one of the top 20 hospitals in the US by theU.S. News & World Report.[8] UCSF received following ranking in 13 adult medical specialities:[9]
| Specialty | Ranking |
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| Cancer | 7 |
| Cardiology andHeart Surgery | 24 |
| Diabetes andEndocrinology | 14 |
| Ear, Nose, and Throat (otolaryngology) | 12 |
| Gastroenterology andGI surgery | 18 |
| Geriatrics | 3 |
| Nephrology | Not Ranked |
| Neurology andNeurosurgery | 3 |
| Obstetrics andGynecology | 32 |
| Ophthalmology | Not ranked |
| Orthopedics | 8 |
| Psychiatry | 7 |
| Pulmonology andLung Surgery | 4 |
| Rheumatology | 7 |
| Urology | 16 |
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