SF News Sutter Health Announces a New Billion-Dollar Medical Center In the Middle of Emeryville Move over, IKEA! Emeryville’s most visited new destination may become a just-announced $1 billion Sutter Health medical center, as the Berkeley area was soon to lose its last remaining full-service hospital.
SF News Report: Some of UCSF Parnassus Was Sweltering With No Air Conditioning During Heatwave Nurses say that a group of patients at the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus were subjected to torrid indoor temperatures of 98 degrees or more during this past week’s heatwave, as the hospital does not have air conditioning on certain floors.
SF News Patient Logbook Goes Missing at SF General Hospital, Security Review Underway A big privacy problem has come to light at Zuckerberg General Hospital, as a patient logbook containing personal and medical information has disappeared and cannot be accounted for, and the hospital is conducting security reviews.
SF News Fines Issued After Area Hospitals Leave Surgical Detritus In Patients' Vagina, Skull It's so horrible that it almost sounds like a joke. You go into a hospital for surgery, and as the doctors close you up their leave their tools inside you, requiring still more
SF News SF General Hospital To Be Renamed After Zuckerberg With a $75 million gift to the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, the soon-to-be renovated SF hospital and its under-construction new building will be getting the name The Priscilla and Mark Zuckerberg San
SF News Surveillance Video Shows Sheriff's Deputy Beating Man At SF General A San Francisco Sheriff's deputy was arrested in connection with beating a man in a waiting room at SF General and then falsifying reports to cover it up. As ABC 7 reports, 33-year-old
SF News San Jose emergency room shut down after chemical spill A Hazmat team has closed San Jose Valley Medical Center's emergency room after an unknown chemical exposure. At least 37 employees, 47 patients were given Silkwood scrubdowns. The toxic mess, it seems, came
SF News Tuberculosis Scare Hits Kaiser Permanente In SF Hey, did you give birth at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco between March 10 to Aug. 10? Well, you might want to get tested for TB. See, Kaiser is in the process of
SF News Hospital Patient Gagged In Washcloth Attack Dies An unidentified female patient at California Pacific Medical Center was found with life-threatening injuries on Tuesday at around 8 p.m. in a room at the hospital. She was discovered with a washcloth
misc Shady St. Luke's? (By Anonymous) [No, not them, but a well-respected writer who choose SFist in which to rant about their woeful experience at St. Luke's, using a veil of anonymity. -- SFist] The billing department
SF News SF Zoo Tiger Attack Victims Released Behold, the tight-lipped duo who, at this point last week, couldn't have imagined the death and subsequent big-cat madness in store for them today. Under supervision at San Francisco General Hospital, due to
misc Tiger Attack Update: Both Survivors In Stable Condition, Says SFGH Doc Dr. John Brown of San Francisco General Hospital told Good Morning America today that the two survivors in yesterday's tiger attack (which killed one) are "doing well at the present time. They have
misc The Week in Nevius Chucky appears to be back on the homeless beat this week with two stories about it. One is something that might piss people off, the other something that might not piss people off.
SF News Defy Newsom And Face His Wrath We like one of the SFGate commenters' take on the sitch: hit by a car "after getting thrown under the bus by Newsome [sic]." We hit the recommend button on that one! You
SF News Fortysomething Dies While Street Racing A grown man died during a street race in Oakland last night at around 9:30 p.m.. The unidentified 42-year-old -- that's right, 42-year-old -- was racing his 2005 Nissan "west on
SF News SFist Blotter -- Really? At Union Square? Where we sit and enjoy our Border's-bought cream cheese stuffed pretzel? Let's back up a bit: according to SF Crime, a 16-year-old boy was shot while kicking it
SF News Early Morning Gunfire Hits Three in SOMA UPDATE: according to one eyewitness who went to the police station after the drive-by to make a report, "all of the gunshot victims died." However, after talking to SFPD, all victims are listed
SF News Wiesel's Wispy Whacker Pleads Wacky The man accused of assaulting and kidnapping Elie Wiesel -- attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, stalking, elder abuse and hate crimes, to be exact -- changed his not guilty plea to one of
SF News Your Commute: Recursive Car Accident Sounds like a mess down on 880 just north of Highway 84, where a big rig ran off the highway at around 1 a.m. this morning and spilled its cargo all over
SF News SFist Blotter -- A Vallejo husband and father, Kevin Owens, 41, went though with a murder/suicide pact (with himself, we guess) on Friday night. He shot and killed his wife, Stacey Owens, 38; wounded
SF News Oakland Mother Calls In Report of Infanticide Yesterday, an Oakland woman called 911 late afternoon and informed the dispatcher that she had just drowned her 16-month-old son in their bathtub at their "nice, well-kept" Lake Merritt.apartment. According to the
SF News SFist Blotter Well, we thought your usual SF criminals were getting all Christmas-y into the spirit of the holiday season what with so little crime reported this past week. the festive spirit is not as
SF News SFist Blotter It's been quiet over the past couple of days. A little too quiet. Hop to it, hoodlums of SF, we need crime-y content! -- In the foreign realm of Fremont, a routine traffic
SF News SFist Blotter Why, we've been so preoccupied with murder right down the street from SFist, we forgot that the rest of the Bay Area is also littered with shootings and bloody tomfoolery. Forgive us, won't
SF News Teen Shot to Death Inside Metreon Megaplex "I'll pop a cap in your ass," four cowardly teens whined just minutes before 18-year-old Michael Price, Jr. of Oakland was shot inside the Metreon last night after some sort of argument. He
