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Torrance Memorial was a local leader in the uniform revolt, allowing nurses to wear colored pantsuits as uniforms, rather than the traditional white dress. In 1967, Torrance Memorial merged with the smaller Riviera Community Hospital. The hospital moved to its current site (adjacent to Zamperini Field, the Torrance municipal airport) in 1971 ...
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.
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).
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]
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Health Care, Research, and Education (PAMF) is a not-for-profit health care organization with medical offices in more than 15 cities in the Bay Area. It has more than 900 physicians and had over 2 million patient visits in 2008.
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.
The Medical Society's first censor, Dr. Morse, served as the forerunner to the present-day Medical Board of California. Because travel was difficult in the early years, the society's focus remained in Northern California. Its counterpart, the Southern California Medical Society, was founded in 1898.
One Medical was founded by Tom Lee in 2007. The company grew from a single San Francisco clinic to more than 72 locations across the United States, including 29 clinics in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. [3] [4] 1Life Healthcare, Inc. serves as an administrative and managerial services company for physician-owned professional corporations. [7]