By Bay City News : sfstandard – excerpt
Doctors at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco have launched a campaign to preserve its unique services amid reports the facility and another of the city’s hospitals, St. Francis Memorial Hospital in Nob Hill, may be acquired by UCSF.
A group of the hospital’s most senior physicians said in a statement this week their “Save St. Mary’s” campaign is to ensure that the medical center maintains its accessible and patient-centered care and most cherished programs and services.
St. Mary’s, on Stanyan Street near Fulton, is San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating hospital. Established in 1857, it was the first Catholic hospital west of the Rockies…
Among the services the physicians are especially concerned about are the Sister Mary Philippa Clinic, which provides care to the homeless and uninsured, and the St. Mary’s McAuley Institute, which provides acute inpatient psychiatric care for youth and young adults…(more)