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The Stone Clinic was founded by Kevin R. Stone, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon, combining himself with a team of nurses, physical therapists, imaging specialists, and patient coordinators, in 1988 to focus on caring for injured athletes and people experiencing arthritis pain. [1]
The French Hospital of San Francisco, officially La Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance Mutuelle (French Mutual Benevolent Society [2]), [3] was founded in 1851 as San Francisco's first private hospital. [4] [5] It was originally located 990 Jackson Street (1851), [6] on Nob Hill.
In 1991, Presbyterian Hospital (at that time known as Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center [23]) and Children's Hospital merged, medical staffs were combined, and a large joint physician group was established in 1993. [24] The new multiple-facility entity was named California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC).
Founded in 1905 in San Francisco by five physicians, they undertook to build "the most up-to-date modern hospital west of Chicago." It was not founded as a Catholic hospital, despite its name. [3] The campus also contained a school for female students, the Saint Francis Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, which also founded in 1905. [6]
San Francisco opened its first permanent hospital in 1857. [18] A hospital has been at Potrero Avenue since 1872, [19] when the city of San Francisco built a 400-bed hospital on Potrero, an all wood hospital, one of four emergency hospitals eventually built by 1904, Central, Harbor, Park and Potrero. [20]
In 2019, Verity agreed to sell St. Francis to KPC Group in Riverside for $420 million, but the deal was not completed. On April 9, 2020, Verity announced the sale of St. Francis to Prime Healthcare Services for over $350 million; Prime committed to investing $47 million in capital improvements, the deal was completed in August 2020.
The facade of the now-demolished 1924 hospital. The 1979 annex stands uphill. A site was acquired to expand the existing dispensary on Trenton in 1920, and the Chinese Six Companies convened a meeting of 15 community organizations, who boldly decided to build a modern hospital instead, which would require extensive fundraising; the 15 organizations met again in October 1922, forming the ...
The medical center was founded as Mary's Help Hospital in 1893 by the Daughters of Charity of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and a new building, located at 145 Guerrero Street at Brosnan Street (west of the Levi Strauss factory), by April 1906, was almost completed [7] but destroyed shortly thereafter by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [2]