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San Francisco granted a city charter and creates a Board of Health; cholera
strikes, temporary hospital set up. |
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City and County
opens its first permanent hospital in the former North Beach schoolhouse
at Stockton and Francisco Streets. |
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New pavilion-plan
hospital opens on Potrero Avenue; separate wards connected by covered walkways. |
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Agreement allows
City and County Hospital to serve as UC and Stanford medical schools' clinical
facility. |
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Long-needed children's
ward and contagious disease pavilion open. |
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Second plague
epidemic strikes; hospital pronounced unfit for patient care when plague-infested
rats and fleas are found there; wooden hospital buildings burned to ground
by city order and patients moved to old Jockey Club Racetrack in the Ingleside
district, where box stalls and grandstands are converted into a temporary
hospital; "Mission Emergency" hospital, one of the city-owned network, operates
out of a shack on the Potrero Avenue site. |
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New San Francisco
General Hospital, a landscaped, red brick, Italian Renaissance-style complex,
dedicated during the City's celebration of completion of the Panama Canal,
which included the Panama-Pacific Exposition; motorized ambulances replace
the horse-drawn vans used by the emergency hospitals.
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Psychiatric ward
opens to treat acutely ill patients and reduce state hospital admissions.
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UCSF becomes
the only medical school affiliate of SFGH to handle patient care, teaching
and research after Stanford Medical School moves to Palo Alto. |
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Voters approve
a $33.7 million bond issue to build a new SFGH. |
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Trauma Center
opens at Mission Emergency, with a grant from NIH. |
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Outpatient department,
Stroke Research Center, coronary and respiratory ICUs, Family Practice residency
start. |
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New SFGH Medical
Center opens after three years of planning by community advisory boards. |
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Specially equipped
Burn Unit, San Francisco's second, becomes part of Trauma Center; Gladstone
Foundation Cardiovascular Laboratories open. |
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Ernest Gallo
Clinic and Research Center established to study basic neuroscience and the
effects of alcohol on the brain. |
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UCSF clinicians
and researchers develop country's first outpatient AIDS clinic and inpatient
ward at SFGH and mount an enormous multidisciplinary effort to fight the
disease. |
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Trauma Center
designated the only Level I Trauma Center in San Francisco, providing around-the-clock
medical and psychiatric emergency services. |
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SFGH continues
to be recognized as the premier hospital for AIDS care in the United States.
The Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology opens at SFGH, second
largest basic research institute in the U.S. In partnership with UCSF, conducts
research on new drugs and treatment for HIV/AIDS, along with clinical care,
clinical trials, prevention, outreach, and professional education programs. |
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Avon Foundation
Comprehensive Breast Center opens to provide state-of-the-art imaging center
for breast cancer detection, more than doubling screening capacity and expanding
outreach at SFGH. |
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As the Department
of Public Health plans for the future of the General Hospital, UCSF looks
forward to continuing its partnership with the city to ensure and advance
the health of the people of San Francisco.
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