UCSF to Host Town Hall to Provide Progress Update on Medical Center at Mission Bay

UCSF officials will provide a status report on the construction, planning and fundraising for the new children’s, women’s specialty and cancer hospitals at Mission Bay during a town hall meeting on Friday, Dec. 4.

The UCSF community is invited to attend the town hall meeting, which will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Cole Hall, on the Parnassus campus. The session will be telecast to Herbst Hall at the Mount Zion campus, the Laurel Heights Auditorium and Rock Hall, room 102, on the Mission Bay campus.

Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center, will join Sam Hawgood, MBBS, dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and vice chancellor of medical affairs, and Cindy Lima, executive director of the Mission Bay hospitals project, to give the update.

UCSF plans to build a 289-bed, integrated hospital complex to serve children, women and cancer patients near its existing biomedical campus at Mission Bay. Upon completion of the first phase in 2014, the 878,000-gross-square-foot hospital complex will include:

• A 183-bed children’s hospital with urgent, emergency and pediatric primary care and specialty outpatient facilities;
• A 70-bed adult hospital for cancer patients;
• A women’s hospital for cancer care, specialty surgery and select outpatient services, and a 36-bed birth center; and
• An energy center, helipad, parking and support services.

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will provide a world-class, sophisticated, efficient, flexible and family-centered healing environment. The hospital complex will house comprehensive diagnostic, interventional and support services, and be equipped with advanced robotic and imaging technology.

The hospitals’ integration with UCSF’s thriving teaching and research campus at Mission Bay will strengthen bench-to-bedside and bedside-to-bench collaboration among basic scientists, clinical researchers and physicians. The collaboration of multidisciplinary medical specialists is expected to create a rich environment for new discoveries in the care of fetal, pediatric, maternal, women and cancer patients.

Priority Project

The first phase of the Mission Bay hospitals project is estimated to cost about $1.6 billion. UCSF will use a combination of fund sources to make the project a reality, including support from donors, hospital reserves, external financing, and state or other funding sources.

UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, says that raising money for the new medical center at Mission Bay is her No. 1 fund-raising priority. UCSF received some good news on this front on Nov. 19 when it was announced that UCSF Children’s Hospital would receive a $2 million gift. Read the news release.

The plan to expand UCSF’s clinical capacity to address both short- and long-term needs is a recommendation in the UCSF Strategic Plan, which calls for delivering the highest-quality, patient-centered care.

In June, the project was named as a regional priority project by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute in a report designed to help guide the allocation of federal economic stimulus funds. UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay was identified as a “strategic project” — the highest classification — in the category of Science and Innovation for its ability to transform academic medicine by translating basic science into clinical practice more rapidly to benefit patients, train future health care professionals, provide jobs and generate economic growth in the region.

UCSF must build new facilities at Mission Bay so that it can 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. UCSF Medical Center also operates facilities at Mount Zion, where buildings date to 1948.

For more information about the project, contact Holly Houston, director of communications for the Mission Bay Hospitals Project.

Related Links:

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay website

New Report Names UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay a Regional Priority Project
UCSF Today, June 23, 2009