UCSF To Use $500M Gift From Long-Time Benefactor To Help Build Hospital
The $1.5 billion hospital, which is expected to open its doors to patients before 2030, is the centerpiece of the university’s planned revitalization of its Parnassus Heights campus.
The Mercury News:
UCSF To Build New Hospital, Aided By $500M Gift
Boosted by a massive new donation, UC San Francisco has unveiled plans to build a world-class hospital on its Parnassus Heights campus, replacing the aging Moffitt Hospital. On Thursday, the university announced a massive $500 million commitment from the Helen Diller Foundation to support the planning, design and construction of the new hospital, ensuring that UCSF will have an earthquake-resistant structure that can continue to provide top-tier care to patients in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. (Krieger, 2/8)
San Francisco Chronicle:
UCSF Gets $500 Million Gift To Help Build New Hospital By 2030
The new hospital, to be completed by 2030, will be built on the site of the current Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital. That hospital will be demolished, and its outpatient services will relocate to a new UCSF location in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood by 2020. Inpatient care will remain at Parnassus Heights. (Ho, 2/7)
In other hospital news —
The Modesto Bee:
Modesto Hospital Adds More Heart Services. Turlock Hospital Changes Its Approach
One thing is certain, after the 20,000th open heart surgery was performed at Doctors Medical Center in June, the Modesto hospital will keep rolling out services for treating heart disease. Doctors Medical Center has invested millions of dollars in state-of-the-art cardiac services facilities, including a new catheterization lab and a hybrid operating suite that should be completed in the summer. (Carlson, 2/7)