UCSF Health Named 2024 LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader
The Healthcare Equality Index recognizes health care facilities for their dedication to inclusive policies and care for LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees.
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Give to UCSFThe Healthcare Equality Index recognizes health care facilities for their dedication to inclusive policies and care for LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees.
People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or non-binary may have a higher risk for stroke at a younger age, and possibly a higher risk for recurrence than those who identify as straight and cisgender.
Facial feminization surgery eliminates sources of misgendering for patients through procedures like hairline advancement, brow lift, rhinoplasty, genioplasty and chondrolaryngoplasty.
UCSF surgeons have developed a novel technique in for Adam’s apple surgeries that leaves patients without a revealing scar.
The Healthcare Equality Index recognizes health care facilities for their dedication to inclusive policies and care for LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees.
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
Researchers from the UCSF School of Nursing have joined a newly launched national collaborative to study the impacts of COVID-19 on members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities.
UCSF Health has been named a 2020 “LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader” by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
LGBTQ+ communities have experienced increased anxiety and depression since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who haven’t struggled with these conditions before.
The work is an important part of the continual process of improvement across the UCSF Health system.
Nearly 25 percent of the LGBT adults aged 50 and older in a new study had subjective cognitive decline, a potential indicator of a future Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Fears of insensitive questioning, withdrawal from hormone treatment and the use of a patient’s legal name, rather than chosen name, may drive many transgender people away from acute care facilities, including emergency departments, urgent care and inpatient treatment, according to an analysis by UCSF doctors.
UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital aim to help address the dearth of medical research addressing sexual or gender minorities through an ambitious national program to collect data that could help to answer the most basic questions about their health.
UCSF Health has been named a 2017 “Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality,” receiving a perfect score on the national Healthcare Equality Index, which was released by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization.
There is an increasing demand to address gender dysphoria early in childhood, prior to the onset of puberty. Under the guidance of Stephen Rosenthal, MD, UCSF’s Gender Center is helping parents and their children navigate this difficult terrain.
Gay and bisexual men were up to six times more likely than heterosexual men to take part in indoor tanning, and twice as likely to report a history of skin cancer, according to a study led by UCSF researchers.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $5.7 million for a five-year, multicenter study, which will be the first in the U.S. to evaluate the long-term outcomes of medical treatment for transgender youth.
UCSF Medical Center has become the only U.S. institution to receive a perfect score on the national LGBT Healthcare Equality Index for seven consecutive years.
New clinical research from UCSF shows that 341 HIV-infected men who reported using stimulants such as methamphetamine or cocaine derived life-saving benefits from being on antiretroviral therapy that were comparable to those of HIV-infected men who do not use stimulants.
The UCSF Clinician Consultation Center at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center has been funded to provide a PrEPline, a telephone consultation service that gives expert guidance to healthcare providers across the nation who prescribe antiretroviral medications to prevent HIV.
New research from UCSF and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation has found that clients participating in a harm-reduction substance use treatment program, the Stonewall Project, decrease their use of stimulants, such as methamphetamine, and reduce their sexual risk behavior.