UCSF Hospitals Earn ‘A’ for Patient Safety from Leapfrog Group
UCSF Health hospitals at Mission Bay and Parnassus Heights earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for spring 2023
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Give to UCSFUCSF Health hospitals at Mission Bay and Parnassus Heights earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for spring 2023
What keeps you up at night? For Kai Kennedy, DPT, it’s health equity — a complex mission that’s guided a lifelong journey from Virginia to West Africa, the Caribbean to Europe and now the Bay Area. But she didn’t get here alone.
A $70 million grant from the Audacious Project will help UCSF and UC Berkeley researchers edit the genes of microbes in the gut and airways that play a role in asthma.
After more than a decade, Jaime Sepúlveda will step down from his role as executive director of UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences in August 2023.
The 2023 staff engagement survey will launch on Apr. 11. All UCSF, UCSF Health, and UCSF Benioff Children’s hospital staff can provide feedback on UCSF’s ongoing efforts to provide an inclusive and engaging place to work.
UC San Francisco will launch its annual staff engagement survey on Tuesday, April 9. Staff are encouraged to provide candid feedback in the survey to inform UCSF as it strives to provide a more inclusive and engaging place to work, and to foster support for staff members’ overall well-being.
UCSF Health has named Cynthia Barginere, DNP, RN, FACHE, as senior vice president and president of adult services, and Timothy Y. Kan, MBA, as senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
Jon Kleen is named the 2023 Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award recipient by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). He is honored for his contributions to epilepsy treatment.
UCSF is a leading recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for research, with a focus on advancing health sciences and medicine.
Kevin Shokat, who developed a successful approach to drugging a protein produced by the KRAS gene, has received two prestigious scientific awards.
BAYS internship initiative welcomes students from historically excluded backgrounds into UCSF labs to counter disparities among Black and Latino students who pursue STEM careers.
The WISDOM 2.0 study aims to transform breast cancer screening by using a personalized approach and will expand to women as young as 30.
Shaeri Mukherjee, PhD, has won the Bowes Biomedical Investigator award, which will provide funding to further her work using bacterial pathogens to identify basic processes inside human cells.
Three UCSF researchers were named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest honors in science.
Diana Greene Foster of UCSF was named one of the top 10 most influential scientists of 2022 by "Nature" for her study of what happens to women who are denied abortions.
Alan P. Venook, MD, a renowned expert in colorectal and liver cancers, has been announced as one of the winners of the 2022 Luminary Awards in Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers.
Catherine Lucey, MD, a key campus leader who has been instrumental in UCSF’s success over the past decade, has been named executive vice chancellor and provost, beginning in January of 2023.
UCSF Medical Center earned its third consecutive Magnet Recognition®, representing more than a decade of gold-standard excellence in nursing and hospital practices, and quality patient care.
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay has been nationally recognized with an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for its rigorous safety measures that protect hospital patients from harm and errors.
Nevan Krogan, PhD, director UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) and founder of QBI’s Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG), has been awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest honor, in a ceremony in Paris.
Three UCSF faculty members are among the 100 new national members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
The UCSF School of Nursing is partnering with Hartnell College to prepare first-generation-to-college students to become nurses, equipped with the skills to advance health care for residents in the underserved Salinas Valley.
With generous support from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation, UCSF has begun a new scholarship for women and international scholars that promises to help build a more diverse pipeline of basic science PhD students.