Video Offers Roadmap to Facilitate Family Conferences When Patient Prognosis is Poor
A new video offers a roadmap for structured meetings between clinicians and family members when a patient has a serious or life-threatening condition.
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Tweeting a Pandemic
How I learned to use social media to advance the public’s understanding of COVID-19.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Hospitalist
Hospitalist Sajan Patel, MD, remembers anxieties and revelations while caring for the Bay Area's first coronavirus patients.
COVID-19 Frontliners: Confronting a Lethal Disease Unlike Any Before We’d Seen Before
What’s it like – as a clinician, researcher, student, or hospital staffer – to confront a lethal disease unlike any you’ve seen before? In this special series, professionals across UCSF share first-person accounts of COVID-19 that reveal grit, ingenuity, and resolve in the face of fear.
UC Hospitals Gradually Resume Essential Services Based on 10 Principles
The University of California’s hospitals announced a gradual resumption of essential services at all five medical centers across the state.
UCSF Health Care Workers to Serve in Navajo Nation
The UCSF health care workers specialize in critical care, intensive care, acute care and hospital medicine.
UCSF Health Care Workers to Serve in New York City
A team of 20 UCSF health care workers – 12 physicians and eight nurses – will travel to New York City to begin a one month voluntary assignment.
Statement on UCSF’s Specialized ‘ACU’ Medical Structures
As part of UCSF Health’s ongoing preparation for a potential increase in patients arriving at our hospitals due to COVID-19, we have erected specialized structures known as Accelerated Care Units outside our hospitals at Parnassus Heights and Mission Bay.
$2M Grant Will Galvanize COVID-19 Response at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
To help combat the public health crisis presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Heising-Simons Foundation has made a $2 million grant to UCSF to establish a COVID Response Initiative at UCSF partner hospital Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
UCSF Health Collaborates with City and Local Hospitals to Increase Inpatient Capacity
As part of its broader COVID-19 response, UCSF Health is working with hospitals across the City of San Francisco to expand inpatient and critical care capacity to meet the anticipated surge in demand due to the novel coronavirus disease.
UCSF Health Increases Inpatient Capacity at UCSF Mount Zion Campus
UCSF Health is preparing to open 46 inpatient acute care beds and seven ICU beds at its Mount Zion medical campus to help meet the anticipated surge in demand across the health system due to the novel coronavirus disease.
Donors Rally to Support UCSF Doctors and Scientists Working to Conquer COVID-19
Thousands of UCSF health care workers are mobilizing to prepare for the potential influx of patients sickened by COVID-19, even as hundreds of UCSF scientists race against time to defeat the deadly respiratory virus impacting communities around the world.
