Global InformationSan Francisco General Hospital information
| Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center | |
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| San Francisco Department of Public Health | |
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 San Francisco General Hospital (seen against the backdrop of Potrero Hill and the Bay Bridge, and parts of the Mission District in the foreground) | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 1001 Potrero Ave San Francisco, California 94110, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°45′20″N 122°24′18″W / 37.75556°N 122.40500°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Medicaid, Medicare, Public |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of California, San Francisco |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 403 General Acute Care 22 Acute Psychiatric 59 Skilled Nursing Mental Health 30 Skilled Nursing Med/Surg |
| History | |
| Opened | 1850 |
| Links | |
| Website | zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
The Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center[1] (ZSFG) is a public hospital in San Francisco, California, under the purview of the city's Department of Public Health. It serves as the only Level I trauma center for the 1.5 million residents of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.[2] It is the largest acute inpatient and rehabilitation hospital for psychiatric patients in the city. Additionally, it is the only acute hospital in San Francisco that provides 24-hour psychiatric emergency services.
In addition to the approximately 3,500 San Francisco municipal employees, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) provides approximately 1,500 employees (including physicians, nurses and ancillary personnel), and the SFGH serves as one of the teaching hospitals for the UCSF School of Medicine. The hospital, especially its Ward 86,[3] was instrumental in treating and identifying early cases of AIDS. A new San Francisco General Hospital acute care building was completed in 2016 for a total approximate cost of $1.02 billion. A $75 million donation by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan[4] covered approximately 7.35% of the overall cost. In recognition, the hospital was renamed after the couple.[5]
The hospital is a safety net hospital additionally serving poor, elderly people, uninsured working families, and immigrants. As of 2014, 92 percent of the patient population at SFGH either receives publicly funded health insurance (Medicare or Medi-Cal) or is uninsured.[6]
SFGH is rare in that its emergency rooms do not have agreements in place with private health care insurance providers. Until 2019, privately insured patients were often billed the balance of their care, which could be sizable. This practice was changed after media attention regarding the hospital's billing practices.[7]
SFGH provided $74,620,877 of services with unrecovered payments in year ending 2020-06-30.[8]
- ^ "Our History". Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
[...] today, we are known as Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
- ^ "San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center >> About Us". Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
- ^ "UCSF Dept of Medicine - UCSF HIV, ID and Global Medicine - Welcome!". hiv.ucsf.edu.
- ^ "Patients Finally Move Into New Facility at SF General | UCSF at SFGH". sfgh.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
- ^ "Our History – Zuckerberg San Francisco General".
- ^ "San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center Annual Report Fiscal Year 2013-2014" (PDF).
- ^ "Billing & Insurance". Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ^ "Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (050228)". American Hospital Directory. Retrieved 2 February 2022.