Partners in Health

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center has been an essential part of San Francisco’s health care system since 1872. Considered one of the finest public hospitals in the US, the General — as many refer to it — offers humanistic, cost-effective and culturally competent care to an international community of patients regardless of their ability to pay. This history has had a strong impact on the hospital’s culture and creed.

Since 1873, ZSFG has been a partner in public health with UCSF. For ZSFG, having UCSF physicians and scientists in house means that top-notch care and cutting edge research is available to all San Franciscans. Our trauma patients get life-saving care from world-renowned surgeons and emergency medicine experts. Because of our emphasis on teaching and research, the care provided here is often translated into improved health practices, protocols and policies nationally and around the world.

The University provides faculty from all four schools — dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy — who provide patient care services, conduct research and teach at ZSFG.

• The School of Dentistry operates the UCSF Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic, which provides inpatient and outpatient services such as trauma surgery for the jaw and facial bone fractures, surgical correction of maxillofacial skeletal and soft tissue deformities and diagnosis and disease.
• The School of Nursing offers a nurse-midwifery education program that has graduated hundreds of nurse-midwives and has provided more than 12,000 women with midwifery care for their births, about half of which are at ZSFG.
• The School of Pharmacy manages the California Poison Control Center, which consists of four answering sites, including ZSFG. Professor Betty Dong also regularly works with a multidisciplinary team of pharmacists, physicians and nurse practitioners to answer calls to the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service and the National Clinicians Hotline.

Year after year, the ZSFG rotation ranks as the most popular among UCSF medical residents. After their classroom training, residents complete their education with rotations at ZSFG, the VA Hospital and UCSF Medical Center’s Parnassus campus. So on any given day, a third of UCSF’s physicians-in-training are here at ZSFG.

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is the sole provider of trauma and psychiatric emergency services for the City and County of San Francisco. A comprehensive medical center, ZSFG serves some 100,000 patients per year and provides 20 percent of the city’s inpatient care. In 2011, ZSFG became the first hospital in the country to be certified for a Traumatic Brain Injury program. As San Francisco’s public hospital, ZSFG’s mission is to provide quality health care and trauma services with compassion and respect to patients that include the City’s most vulnerable. Zuckerberg San Francisco General is also one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, partnering with the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine on clinical training and research.