San Francisco

The Cleveland Cord Blood Center has expanded umbilical cord blood collection to the West Coast with the addition of Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center as a center for donation and collection.  Read more

The Commission on Cancer (CoC), of the American College of Surgeons has granted Three-Year Accreditation with commendation to the cancer program at Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center.

Kaiser Permanente announced $500,000 in grants to health organizations in San Francisco to help increase access to care for people who are at greatest risk for heart attacks and strokes.

There is a new resource for healthy eating with the arrival of Linda Shiue, MD, the San Francisco Medical Center’s first-ever director of Culinary Medicine. In addition to being an internal medicine physician and seeing patients, Dr. Shiue has launched a hands-on healthy cooking program, “The Thrive Kitchen.” The class is offered monthly at the Mission Bay Medical Offices, 1600 Owens St.

Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center has earned a distinction as a Top Teaching Hospital by the Leapfrog Group, a national group that compares hospitals’ performance on U.S. standards of safety, quality and efficiency.