California Pacific Medical Center facts for kids

Quick facts for kids California Pacific Medical Center
Sutter Health
Geography
Location	1101 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Coordinates	37°47′26″N 122°25′53″W / 37.790632°N 122.431272°W / 37.790632; -122.431272
Organisation
Care system	Non-Profit
Funding	Private
Hospital type	Teaching Hospital
Affiliated university	University of California, San Francisco Dartmouth Medical School

The Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) is a big hospital in San Francisco, California. It helps people with many different health needs. It is also a teaching hospital, which means it helps train new doctors and medical staff. CPMC was formed when several older hospitals in the city joined together. Today, it has three main hospital locations.

CPMC's main hospitals in San Francisco are the Van Ness Campus, the Davies Campus, and the Mission Bernal Campus. Even though CPMC is a private hospital, it works closely with major universities. These include the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

Where to Find CPMC Hospitals

As of 2020, CPMC has three main hospitals that care for patients:

• Davies Campus: This hospital is located at Castro & Duboce Streets. It used to be called Franklin Hospital.
• Mission Bernal Campus: This campus opened in 2018 at 3555 Cesar Chavez Street. It took the place of an older hospital called St. Luke's.
• Van Ness Campus: This large hospital opened in 2019 at 1101 Van Ness Avenue. It has 274 beds for patients.

When the Mission Bernal and Van Ness campuses opened, CPMC stopped offering hospital and emergency services at two of its older locations:

• Pacific Campus: This was at 2333 Buchanan Street. It was originally Presbyterian Hospital.
• California Campus: This was at 3700 California Street. It was originally Children's Hospital.

How CPMC Started

Sutter Health CPMC grew from many medical centers that started a long time ago in San Francisco. Here are some of them:

• The German Hospital: This hospital began in 1858. It was later renamed Franklin Hospital, then Davies Medical Center. It joined CPMC in 1998.
• St. Luke's Hospital: Started in 1871, this hospital moved to its Cesar Chavez Street location in the 1880s. It became part of CPMC in 2007.
• Children's Hospital: This hospital opened in 1875 to help women and children. It joined with Presbyterian Hospital in 1991.
• Cooper Medical College: This was a medical school founded in 1882. It later became part of Stanford University.
• Lane Hospital: Built in 1895 for Cooper Medical College, it became Presbyterian Hospital after the medical school moved.
• Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital: Founded in 1887, it was later renamed Marshall Hale Memorial Hospital. It joined Children's Hospital in the 1980s.

Many of these early hospitals also had nursing schools. They also ran clinics to help people in their neighborhoods.

CPMC's Journey Through Time

In 1991, two big hospitals, Presbyterian Hospital and Children's Hospital, decided to merge. They combined their medical teams. In 1993, the new, larger hospital was named California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC). Its two main sites were called the California Campus and the Pacific Campus.

CPMC joined a larger healthcare system called California HealthCare System. This system later teamed up with Sutter Health in 1996. The new company was renamed Sutter Health. One of their big goals was to build new hospital buildings. This was to meet new California laws about making hospitals safe during earthquakes.

In 1997, another hospital called Ralph K. Davies Medical Center joined CPMC. This made it CPMC's third campus. Later, in 2007, St. Luke's Hospital also became part of CPMC, making it the fourth campus.

In 2013, CPMC started building a huge new hospital. It cost $2.1 billion and has 274 beds. This new hospital, the Van Ness Campus, was built where the old Jack Tar Hotel used to be. It was designed to be very safe during earthquakes. It uses special "viscous wall dampers" that act like giant shock absorbers. The Van Ness Campus officially opened on March 2, 2019.

A new 120-bed hospital was also built at the St. Luke's site. This new building, called the Mission Bernal Campus, opened on August 25, 2018. It offers special services like maternity care and a unit for elderly patients.

To get permission to build these new hospitals, CPMC promised to keep helping the city's less fortunate residents.

On June 5, 2015, something amazing happened at CPMC. Surgeons from CPMC and University of California, San Francisco worked together. They completed 18 surgeries in the nation's first nine-way kidney transplant chain in one city. This means nine pairs of people swapped kidneys to help each other.

Medical Research at CPMC

CPMC has its own California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. Here, scientists and doctors study many different health topics. They do both basic science research and clinical studies (research with patients).

For example, their Center for Melanoma Research and Treatment has made big progress. Melanoma is a serious type of skin cancer. Their research has helped patients live much longer. Studies led by doctors David Minor and Mohammed Kashani-Sabet helped get a new cancer medicine, nivolumab, approved. This medicine is a big step forward in treating melanoma.

Learning to Be a Doctor at CPMC

CPMC is an important place for medical education. It helps train new doctors in many areas. These include general surgery, women's health (obstetrics and gynecology), bone and joint surgery (orthopedic surgery), and children's health (pediatrics).

CPMC also has its own training programs for doctors in internal medicine, eye care (ophthalmology), and mental health (psychiatry). They offer advanced training in areas like heart care (cardiology), stomach and gut health (gastroenterology), and lung care (pulmonology).

Medical students from UCSF also come to CPMC for training. In 2008, CPMC started a new partnership with Dartmouth Medical School. This allows Dartmouth students to come to San Francisco for their third and fourth years of medical school. They learn about different medical fields like internal medicine, psychiatry, and family medicine.

Hospital Quality Scores

The Leapfrog Group is an organization that rates hospitals on their safety and quality. Here are the scores for CPMC's hospitals as of 2023:

See also

• List of hospitals in California
• Brian Andrews, a doctor who used to lead the Department of Neurosciences at CPMC