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 Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Top 1,000 For First Time Since February Hospitalizations from COVID-19 continue climbing across California, and in the Bay Area, the number of hospitalized patients with serious cases rose above 1,000 for the first time since mid-February.
SF News Governor Newsom: Hospitals Can Soon Perform 'Scheduled Surgeries,' COVID-19 Testing Continues To Grow Governor Newsom announced Wednesday that California hospitals will soon be allowed to perform “scheduled surgeries” as the state’s health care system remains intact amid influxes of COVID-19 patients. Coronavirus testing is also expected to grow significantly by the end of the month.
SF News State Regulators Fine SF Hospitals For Fatal Mistakes Two San Francisco hospitals are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, after state healthcare regulators said they failed to properly treat patients who died in their care. According to the California
SF News Bay Area Hospitals Preparing For Ebola The presence of another Ebola patient in the continental United States this one, in Texas, being a man who contracted the disease in Liberia, got on a plane to Dallas without showing symptoms,
SF News Oakland Girl Brain Dead After Routine Tonsil Surgery The parents of an Oakland girl are seeking answers after their daughter, 13-year-old Jahi McMath, underwent routine tonsil surgery last week but later was pronounced brain dead. According to reports, "hospital staff have
SF News BREAKING: 'Mysterious White Powder' Shuts Down S.F. Post Office, Hospital UPDATE 2:30: The crews, according to a nearby commenter, appear to have dispersed now. Not sure what the "mysterious white powder" was, but we'll update as soon as we know more. 2:
SF News 67-Year-Old Man Assaulted In Hospital Bathroom A 67-year-old man was grabbed by the neck and dragged out of a stall in a first-floor bathroom at St. Francisco Memorial Hospital in Nob Hill earlier this week. The 41-year-old suspect reportedly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sick Women and Children Plot to Kill KoKo Cocktails, One of San Francisco's Best Bars (UPDATED) Nooooo. The California Pacific Medical Center's dastardly plan to build a new "$1.7 billion, 555-bed acute and women and children's care hospital" at the corner of Van Ness and Geary will result
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Hospital Parfait, Boulette's, Taco Bell Kills Foodies' Souls A daily review of local food-related musings. Taco Bell is the stuff hangover-remedy days are made of. Also, it's tasty. Now we have another reason to adore the fast food chain. Starting this
SF News Free Doctor Housecalls For HIV+ People With Flu A clinical trial is taking place in San Francisco for HIV+ people who are exhibiting flu symptoms in which they can qualify for free in-home doctor visits. Quest Clinical Studies, Conant Medical Group
SF News Another Reason To Make Gay Marriage Legal Now This story comes out of Florida, not San Francisco, but it's pretty compelling. See, a few years ago, a hospital refused to let a lesbian, Janice Langbehn, see her dying partner, Lisa Pond,
SF News California Health Department Issues Penality to UCSF The California Department of Public Health announced today that 13 California hospitals were slammed with "administrative penalties of $25,000 per violation" due to said hospitals failed to comply with licensing requirements that
SF News Swine Flu Update: Triage Tents, Number Counts, & Threat Levels Cabo San Lucas turns into a ghost town, more schools close in the East Bay, WHO raises pandemic threat level to 5, hand sanitizer flying off shelves -- Swine Flu Watch 2K9 is
