San Francisco Medical Center

San Francisco Medical Center consists of four Kaiser Permanente medical office and center campuses in San Francisco, California.[1]

San Francisco Medical Center

History

Kaiser Permanente has the main San Francisco Medical Center, the Geary Hospital, French Campus, and Mission Bay all forming Kaiser's San Francisco presence.

In 2008 960 babies were potentially exposed to tuberculosis at the hospital's postpartum unit.[2]

In 2010 the hospital was fined US$ 100,000 for failing to properly treat a diabetic patient that later died.[3]

In 2014 the hospital was recognized as having made "meaningful contributions" to the community's health.[4] It spent 24.3 million US$ that year on community benefits.[5] Also in this year Kaiser was fined US$ 50,000 for leaving an electrode inside a woman's womb after a cesarean section.[6] In 2015 a study examining the use of Truvada used as PrEP in preventing the transmission of HIV found a 100% success rate among a group of hundreds of men at the hospital (over 99% men who had sex with men).[7] The San Francisco Medical Center has been observed as a key player in San Francisco's fight against HIV and the city's plans to "aggressively combat" the spread of the virus with PReP.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Anza Vista Bottle Attack Leaves Man Critically Injured - Hoodline".
  2. ↑ "960 babies in TB scare at Kaiser in S.F."
  3. ↑ "Bay Area hospitals fined for violations".
  4. ↑ "Hospitals earn the tax benefits they receive".
  5. ↑ "Hospitals come out ahead in claimed benefit to community".
  6. ↑ "3 Bay Area hospitals cited for serious violations".
  7. ↑ "HIV-preventing drug holds up under study".
  8. ↑ "Health providers slowly embrace drug Truvada to prevent HIV".

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