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UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is a children's hospital system in San Francisco and Oakland, California, affiliated to the University of California, San Francisco.The hospital is a quaternary research and teaching hospital, and is the largest public recipient of NIH funding worldwide for 17 consecutive years, with $789,196,651 in total funding for FY 2023.
The Benioffs partnered with the Gates Foundation to fund UCSF’s California Preterm Birth Initiative, which aims to reduce preterm birth and death among the children of women of color. [10] [11] [12] The UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine emerged in 2019 with a $25 million donation from the couple. [13]
Previously named Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland, the hospital was renamed in 2014 after affiliating with UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco. [8] In 2016, the UCSF Children's Hospital was ranked among the top 25 in eight of 10 hospital specialties in the U.S News & World Report's best pediatric hospitals listing. [9] [10]
On Dec. 7 at North Henderson High School, 11th grader Citlally Diaz, 17, was honored for winning one of just four $3,000 scholarship grand prize awards out of thousands of entries across the country.
UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights is located on the main campus of UCSF and includes the 600-bed teaching hospital of the same name along with the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, extensive research labs, the main branch of the UCSF Library, and is home to the UCSF School of Medicine, UCSF School of Nursing, UCSF School of Dentistry, and UCSF School of Pharmacy.
The UCSF School of Medicine has seven major sites throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and is composed of 28 academic departments, eight organized research units, and five interdisciplinary research centers. The main site is at the Parnassus Heights campus, which is home to the UCSF Medical Center and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute.
As Benioff explained, the more expert you get, the more close-minded you naturally become. “You tend to think, ‘I already know how to do this,’ and you become less open to new information ...
"SFGH and the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) have been partners in public health since 1872..." [23] [24] In 1966, SFGH was designated as the city's trauma center, [20] the second trauma center established in the U.S. after Cook County Hospital. [25]