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Looking From the Past To the Future Mount Zion Hospital Celebrates 120th Anniversary 02.12.2007  Mount Zion Nurses, circa 1920 Photo: Fishbon Library The Mount Zion Hospital Association was organized in 1887 by Jewish citizens of San Francisco to found a Jewish hospital and to provide a place to render "… medical and surgical aid to the needy and distressed sick of the community … without regard to race or creed." This egalitarian philosophy is still very much at the heart of the hospital's philosophy and can be witnessed every day as patients from a wide range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds stream into the light-filled lobby, greeted oftentimes by the calming sounds of a piano played by one of the hospital's many volunteers. Now celebrating its 120th year, Mount Zion is looking forward to a future in which its tradition of caring for the community will continue unbroken. The UCSF Medical Center is planning significant investments on the campus in the next three years. These plans include the expansion of operating capacity by adding two new operating rooms. Additionally, the medical center and the Chancellor's Office are jointly working with philanthropist Bernard Osher to create the new Osher Center at Post and Divisadero. The building will offer space for integrated medical services as well as clinical activities. Once a new hospital is built at Mission Bay, the Mount Zion campus will likely shift its focus towards providing clinical services for outpatient care, chronic illness, prevention, and integrative care. With its location right in the heart of San Francisco, the campus is considered ideal for offering these ambulatory clinical services and for developing innovative research programs.
Included in Mount Zion's 120 years is 10 years of UCSF Women's Health as a nationally-designated Center of Excellence. The last decade has seen major advances in women's health, and UCSF has played a key role in this process: leading innovations in clinical practice, development of new knowledge, and in professional and community education.
Mount Zion Firsts Mount Zion grew from a small community hospital to a major teaching and medical center; at its peak in 1975, it had 499 licensed beds and 1800 employees; 15,000 patients were admitted annually, in addition to 130,000 ambulatory care visits and 5,000 home care visits. Over the past 120 years, Mount Zion hospital has made many notable contributions to the San Francisco medical community. Mount Zion hospital was:
Today, as a UCSF campus, Mount Zion serves as the home for the Comprehensive Cancer Center, the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, the Asian Heart and Vascular Center, and the Osher Center for Integrative Health, and the Women's Health Clinical Research Center. An interactive tour of the campus highlights the diversity and distinction of these and other services.  |
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