Nestled at the foot of Potrero Hill in the city’s Mission District, the public hospital has been an essential part of San Francisco’s health care system since 1872. Considered one of the finest public hospitals in the US, the General, as many refer to it, offers humanistic, cost-effective and culturally competent care to an international community of patients regardless of their ability to pay. This history has had a strong impact on the hospital’s culture and creed.

For the past 134 years, SFGH has been a partner in public health with UCSF. The University provides faculty from all four schools – dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy – who provide patient care services, conduct research and teach at SFGH.

• The School of Dentistry operates the UCSF Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic, which provides inpatient and outpatient services such as trauma surgery for the jaw and facial bone fractures, surgical correction of maxillofacial skeletal and soft tissue deformities and diagnosis and disease.
  
• The School of Nursing offers a nurse-midwifery education program that has graduated hundreds of nurse-midwives and has provided more than 12,000 women with midwifery care for their births, about half of which are at SFGH.
  
• The School of Pharmacy manages the California Poison Control Center, which consists of four answering sites, including SFGH. The school’s Betty Dong also regularly works with a multidisciplinary team of pharmacists, physicians and nurse practitioners to answer calls to the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service and the National Clinicians Hotline.

Source: Lisa Cisneros