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Friday, May 18, 2007
UCSF to Build New SF Hospital
The University of California is going to build a major new hospital at Mission Bay that will focus on children, women and cancer patients. Preliminary plans call for the hospital to be finished by 2014. The UC Regents have authorized UCSF to raise $500 million to start the project.
The new hospital will be built on a 14-acre parcel located just south of the existing 43-acre life sciences campus at Mission Bay.The approximately 865,000-square-foot hospital complex will include:
* A 183-bed children's hospital, along with pediatric primary and specialty outpatient facilities.
* A 36-bed women's hospital and some women's outpatient services.
* A 70-bed cancer hospital.
* A central utility plant, underground tunnel, bridge, helipad and parking facilities.
The campus has received significant early indication of private support for the project and has begun the initial phase of a capital campaign to raise at least $500 million. The fundraising campaign is being conducted jointly by the University and UCSF Foundation, under the leadership of Senior Vice Chancellor Bruce Spaulding and Associate Vice Chancellor James Asp.
The plan to build new facilities at Mission Bay allows UCSF to increase inpatient and outpatient capacity to meet growing patient demand, address old and outdated facilities, and comply with state-mandated earthquake safety standards for hospitals.
UCSF Medical Center’s facilities on the Parnassus campus are composed of two adjoining 15-story buildings that function as one hospital: Moffitt, built in 1955, and Long, built in 1982. Long is seismically sound and viable beyond 2030, but Moffitt must be replaced by 2030. Both facilities are overcrowded, costly to maintain and functionally obsolete. UCSF Medical Center also operates facilities at Mount Zion, where buildings date to 1948.
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