California Pacific Medical Center
| California Pacific Medical Center | |
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| Sutter Health | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 2333 Buchanan Street, San Francisco, California, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°47′26″N 122°25′53″W / 37.790632°N 122.431272°WCoordinates: 37°47′26″N 122°25′53″W / 37.790632°N 122.431272°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Non-Profit |
| Funding | Private |
| Hospital type | Academic Health Science Center |
| Affiliated university | University of California, San Francisco; Dartmouth Medical School |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Basic |
| Beds | 785 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1852 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in California |
California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) is the largest medical center of the Northern California-based Sutter Health health system and is the result of the merger of several of the longest established hospitals in San Francisco. It is a general medical/surgical hospital, academic medical center, and specialty hospital operating at multiple locations in San Francisco, California. Its primary campuses in San Francisco are the California Campus in Presidio Heights, the Pacific Campus in Pacific Heights, the Davies Campus in Lower Haight, and the St. Luke's campus in the Mission District. While it is a privately funded entity, CPMC has strong academic ties to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as well as the Geisel School of Medicine of Dartmouth College.
The present-day California Pacific Medical Center had origins in over a century of combining several early San Francisco medical institutions,. Included among them were:
Several of these institutions operated nursing schools (Pacific Dispensary, St. Luke's, Lane Hospitals), as well as outreach clinics (e.g.: St. Luke's Neighborhood Clinic, founded in 1920) during portions of their history.
In 1991 Presbyterian Hospital and Children's Hospital merged, medical staffs were combined, and a large joint physician group was established in 1993. The new multiple-facility entity was named California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC). The new hospital began its life by refusing to recognize the California Nurses Association which had represented Registered Nurses at Children's Hospital since 1947. The merged hospital also struggled to reduce costs, finally succeeding when a new management team took what opponents described as "a ruthless approach".
The new CPMC inherited from Presbyterian Hospital its membership in the California HealthCare System; members also included Marin General Hospital, Alta Bates Hospital in Oakland and Berkeley, and Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in San Mateo and Burlingame. This system joined with the Sutter Health System of Sacramento in 1996 to form Sutter/CHS, (later renamed Sutter Health). A major project of the new company was organizing capitalization for replacement of every hospital facility, to conform to new seismic legislation underway in the California Legislature.
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