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Does SFGH Ring a Bell?
Sadly, the second Daybreak contest went un-won. The campus site in question was San Francisco General Hospital. The featured buffalo statue, sculpted by artist Raimondo Puccinelli, is located on the patio outside of the cafeteria on the second floor. Perhaps this particular campus location was a bit obscure, as evidenced by the lack of correct responses. Check Daybreak next week for another chance to win (and for, perhaps, a more obvious photo of one of UCSF's sites). In the meantime, here's a look at SFGH's history, via a timeline:
1857: City and County opens its first permanent hospital in the former North Beach schoolhouse at Stockton and Francisco Streets
1873: Agreement allows City and County Hospital to serve as UC and Stanford medical schools' clinical facility 1907: Long-needed children's ward and contagious disease pavilion added 1908: Second plague
epidemic strikes; hospital pronounced unfit for patient
care when plague-infested rats and fleas are found there;
wooden hospital buildings burned to ground by city order 1915: New San Francisco General Hospital, a landscaped, red brick, Italian Renaissance-style complex, dedicated during the City's celebration of completion of the Panama Canal, which included the Panama-Pacific Exposition; motorized ambulances replace the horse-drawn vans used by the emergency hospitals 1924: Psychiatric
ward opens to treat acutely ill patients and 1959: UCSF becomes the only medical school affiliate of SFGH to handle patient care, teaching and research after Stanford Medical School moves to Palo Alto 1965: Voters approve a $33.7 million bond issue to build a new SFGH 1972: Trauma Center opens at "Mission Emergency," with a grant from NIH 1973: Outpatient department, Stroke Research Center, coronary and respiratory ICUs, Family Practice residency start 1976: New SFGH Medical Center opens after three years of planning by community advisory boards 1979: Specially equipped Burn Unit, San Francisco's second, becomes part of Trauma Center; Gladstone Foundation Cardiovascular Laboratories open; over the next decade, the Rosalind Russell Arthritis Laboratories and the Gallo, Koret, Lung Biology and Rice Liver Centers are established making SFGH a major UCSF research center 1983: UCSF clinicians and researchers develop country's first outpatient AIDS clinic and inpatient ward at SFGH and mount an enormous multidisciplinary effort to fight the disease 1st appeared 2/13/98 |
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1850: San Francisco granted a city
charter and creates a Board of Health; cholera strikes,
temporary hospital set up
1872:
New pavilion-plan hospital opens on Potrero Avenue;
separate wards connected by covered walkways
and patients moved to old Jockey Club
Racetrack in the Ingleside district, where box stalls and
grandstands are converted into a temporary hospital;
"Mission Emergency" hospital, one of the
city-owned network, operates out of a shack on the
Potrero Avenue site
reduce state hospital admissions