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Critical Surgery
San Francisco Business Times: April 6, 2012Building a hospital is a construction project like no other, especially on seismically uncertain turf such as the Bay Area. This is particularly true in an era where so much other ground is shifting under hospitals and health care. National reform is in the offing, but also in potential legal jeopardy. Costs are still exploding, but facing ever greater resistance in a nation that can no longer afford to pay expanding health care bills. Read More.
Inside UCSF's Mission Bay hospital
San Francisco Business Times: April 5, 2012UC San Francisco Medical Center is making rapid progress on its new 289-bed, $1.52 billion women's, children's and cancer specialty hospital at Mission Bay, which will include the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Cindy Lima, UCSF's point person on the massive construction project, recently gave the San Francisco Business Times and photographer Spencer Brown a tour of the construction site. UCSF and construction partners, including DPR Construction, Stantec Architecture and construction management company Cambridge CM, among others, "topped off" the steel superstructure last October, and are working now to put the "skin" on those bones. Read More.
Helping hospitalized kids cope and re-enter school
SFGate: January 31, 2012Life is tough for a hospitalized kid. Isolated from peers, deprived of physical play, they start to identify with their illness. In his work as a child life specialist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Michael Towne creates an environment where children get the stimulation and support they need, stay current with schoolwork and feel less stigmatized by their illness. Read More.
UCSF Mission Bay med center helps DPR thrive
San Francisco Business Times: November 4, 2011DPR Construction has found a cure for the lagging economy in the University of California, San Francisco ’s $1.5 billion Mission Bay Medical Center. With many commercial contractors still climbing out of the hole of the recession, DPR’s Bay Area groups are on track to generate $700 million in revenue this year. Read More.
UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay rises to occasion
SFGate: October 30, 2011Amid construction at UCSF's Medical Center at Mission Bay, UCSF CEO Mark Laret recalled that 10 years ago, his team possessed the vision to create a new hospital complex but weren't certain they had the will. Read More.
Marc Benioff, Iron Workers are Tip-top @ UCSF's Mission Bay Complex
SFGate: October 17, 2011As major donors and more than 300 construction and iron workers squinted beneath a brilliant sun at the “Topping Out” ceremony this morning on the grounds of UCSF’s Medical Center at Mission Bay, UCSF CEO Mark Laret noted Oct. 17 is also the 22nd anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Read More.
Northern California Real Estate Women of Influence
San Francisco Business Times: October 6, 2011Cindy Lima, the executive director of the UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals Project was recently honored as one of Northern California's Real Estate Women of Influence. The awards program recognized more than 50 women as Hall of Fame inductees, honorees and rising stars. Read More.
Marc Benioff, CEO, makes philanthropy a priority
SFGate: July 24, 2011One day in the fall of 2009, Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff met with a fellow billionaire in hopes of closing a deal. Benioff, a consummate salesman since his days under Larry Ellison at Oracle, traveled to the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park to sell not his product but an idea: that his counterpart, a retired entrepreneur who had billions of dollars at his disposal, should make a major donation to UCSF. Read More.
UCSF, Stanford Top National Hospital List
NBC Bay Area: July 19, 2011The Bay Area is home to two of the country's top hospitals, according to a new report. U.S. News released its annual list of "the Best Hospitals Honor Roll" Tuesday, which ranks the nation's hospitals that show an "unusually high expertise" across multiple specialties. The UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco and the Stanford Hospital and Clinics were both ranked among the top 17 hospitals in the country in the report. Read More.
UCSF, Stanford hospitals make U.S. News’ top 20 hospitals list (again)
San Francisco Business Times: July 19, 2011It’s that time of year again, and UCSF Medical Center and Stanford Hospital & Clinics have once again made U.S. News & World Report’s best hospital list, UCSF at No. 7 and Stanford 10 spots back at No. 17. UCSF boasts that it’s in the top 10 on the publication’s America’s Best Hospitals survey for the 11th consecutive year and is once again the best rated hospital in Northern California. Stanford notes that it made the Honor Roll, which included the top 17 out of 720 ranked hospitals. The United States has an estimated 5,000 or more hospitals all told; U.S. News evaluated 4,825 of them. Read More.