UCSF Medical Center & Children's Hospital Named to "Best Hospitals" List
The U.S. News ranking comes during a time of several milestone developments for UCSF: • Recognizing UCSF Medical Center's exceptional efforts to foster better outcomes in stroke care, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) recently certified the hospital as a Primary Stroke Center. UCSF is the first hospital in San Francisco to receive this designation. • UCSF neurologists and neurosurgeons are conducting a gene therapy trial for patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease. In the procedure, brain cells are infused with a virus containing the DNA of a special enzyme. The goal of the trial is to have brain cells produce more of this enzyme which the brain uses to convert l-dopa to dopamine, which relieves symptoms of the disease. The first patient has been successfully treated, with several more patients scheduled in the near future. • Pioneers in fetal surgery, UCSF Children's Hospital has launched a comprehensive fetal surgery website. Parents-to-be can learn about prenatal diagnoses and treatments and get information from the foremost experts in this field. • The UCSF Cancer Risk Program has expanded its genetics services with a novel Medical Genomics Clinic, designed to serve families who have a family history of multiple malignancies and congenital anomalies. The recognition of a family with a cancer syndrome is important for several reasons, including the initiation of cancer surveillance, identification of relatives at increased cancer risk, and recurrence-risk counseling for the family. • UCSF Medical Center has embarked on an ambitious plan to build a cancer, women's and children's hospital alongside its research facilities at Mission Bay. This new hospital will be in addition to the facilities at its Parnassus campus. |
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medical centers on U.S. News & World Report's honor roll are: 1. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 2. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 4. Cleveland Clinic 5. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 6. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis 7. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell 8. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 9. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 10. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco 11. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 12. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston 13. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 14. University of Chicago Hospitals 15. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 16. Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. |