Chronicle Endorses Prop. A: A New General Hospital
San Francisco General Hospital serves many vital roles. It is the only top-level, 24/7 trauma center in the city. It houses the nation's premier AIDS ward. It is the only alternative for the uninsured or Medi-Cal patients who can't find a doctor to treat them for the program's paltry reimbursement rates. More »
Wednesday, October 15, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Guardian endorses Prop. A: Save SF General Hospital
The city's leading progressive editorial voice emphatically backs the bond measure to preserve and protect the foundation of our public-private health care network. More »
Wednesday, October 28, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
SF Examiner: Vote Yes on Proposition A
It's the right hospital for San Francisco. More »
Wednesday, October 28, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
Prop. A would pay to build new S.F. hospital
San Francisco General Hospital, arguably the city's most important medical facility and a regional trauma center, is liable to collapse in a major earthquake centered near San Francisco. More »
Sunday, September 7, 2008, Robert Selna, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. General Hospital’s life on line
San Francisco civic, political and business leaders are set to launch a major campaign Sept. 15 to support Proposition A, which asks the city’s voters to approve an $887.4 million bond issue to replace San Francisco General Hospital. More »
Friday, September 5, 2008, Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times
General, life and death at San Francisco's Hospital of last resort rebuild or bust: Clock is ticking
After the Northridge earthquake in 1994 damaged 23 hospitals, the Legislature set new safety standards that the state's 2,700 hospital buildings have to meet by Jan. 1, 2013. More »
December 10, 2006 Mike Weiss, San Francisco Chronicle
Mayor seeks bond money to rebuild S.F. General
SAN FRANCISCO -- The campaign to rebuild San Francisco General Hospital formally launched Tuesday with a proposal for a $887.4 million bond measure submitted to the Board of Supervisors. More »
May 14, 2008 · Elizabeth Fernandez, Chronicle Staff Writer
Head of CDC makes a stop in SF
SAN FRANCISCO -- Every year, Dr. Julie Gerberding leaves her CDC post in Atlanta to spend two weeks at San Francisco General Hospital seeing patients. More »
August 22, 2008 · By Lyanne Melendez, KGO
Insured patients using ER for primary care
Hospital emergency departments, typically the medical providers of last resort, are becoming the only option for insured as well as uninsured people who are unable to get care elsewhere, leading to a record rise in emergency room visits over the past decade, a federal government report found. More »
Moody's raises San Francisco's debt rating
Given the fiscal stress so many local governments are under, I was surprised to see Moody's Investor Service raise San Francisco's general obligation debt rating this week for the first time in 11 years. The upgrade was based largely on a long, steady increase in the assessed value of property in the city that shows no signs of abating despite turmoil in real estate markets elsewhere. Debt ratings are to cities what credit scores are to consumers: They reflect a borrower's likelihood of repaying loans and play a big role in determining what interest rate they will pay. The higher the rating, the lower the rate. More »
Patient Testimonial: Back to Work Thanks to SF General
Mercy Zamora's brakes failed. During the collision that followed, she suffered massive injuries. San Francisco paramedics rushed her to the city's only Level One trauma center, San Francisco General Hospital. Listen to Mercy's story -- then take her advice and vote Yes on Proposition A to save SF General.
November 2, 2008
"The Best Neurosurgeons Anywhere"
San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner was crossing a street on foot the night after Christmas. He heard a smack. Then he hit the windshield of the car. He didn't know what happened until he came to at San Francisco General Hospital. Listen to Norman's story -- then take his advise and vote Yes on Proposition A to save the hospital that saves lives every day.
October 31, 2008
Patient Testimonial: "Has Seen Many Lives Saved"
San Francisco firefighter and paramedic Dan Casey has seen many lives saved at San Francisco General Hospital. One of them was his own. Listen to his story -- and then take his advice and vote Yes on Proposition A to save San Francisco General Hospital.
October 28, 2008
Patient Testimonial: "I wouldn't be standing here today"
Officer Nick Ferrando and his partner were racing to apprehend a suspect who'd viciously stabbed a woman. They never saw or heard the other patrol car that entered the intersection at the same time. Officer Ferrando explains why we all have General Hospital to thank for saving lives -- and why he urges us all to vote Yes on Proposition A to save General Hospital.
October 25, 2008
Patient Testimonial: Going the Extra Mile at SF General
It would be the worst day of her life. One moment Alyson Lee-Suzuki was riding in the passenger seat of a car with family. The next moment they were "T-boned" by another vehicle. Lee-Suzuki was to be married the next week. Now she was being rushed to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening internal injuries. Listen to her story. Then vote Yes on Proposition A to save San Francisco General Hospital.
October 21, 2008
2nd TV Commercial Drives Home the Point: General Hospital Saves Lives
Traumatic injuries threaten life in San Francisco every day. In fact, San Francisco General Hospital, the city's only trauma center, activates its specialized trauma team more than 3,200 times a year or about 10 times a day on average. If you our a loved one are a car accident, suffer serious injury at work or are otherwise badly hurt, you are going to care about one thing -- that San Francisco General Hospital is there to help.
October 21, 2008
Patient testimonial: We All Have a Stake in Saving San Francisco General
None of us plans to suffer traumatic injury – whether due to a fall, car accident or even as the unintended victim of crime. But it happens every day in San Francisco.
If it happens to you or to a loved one, you are going to want San Francisco General Hospital standing ready to respond.
Just listen to the story of Michael Phillips, who was struck by a stray bullet on his way to a car wash on the afternoon of June 30, 2007.
Then remember to vote Yes on Proposition A on November 4th and save San Francisco General Hospital.
October 4, 2008
First TV Ad Shows Voters All Have a Stake in Passing Proposition A
As the city's only trauma center and only hospital committed to delivering state-of-the-art health care to all, San Francisco General needs to be rebuilt. Proposition A is the smartest and most cost-effective way to do it. Here is one way we're letting voters that we all have a stake in saving and preserving the future of General Hospital.
September 21, 2008
A United San Francisco Kicks-off Campaign to Pass Proposition A
Damita Davis-Howard, Service Employees International Union Local 1021 president, led an unmatched coalition of elected officials, labor, business and political party leaders, and doctors, nurses and health-care workers on Monday, Sept. 15, to formally kickoff the campaign to pass Proposition A and save San Francisco General Hospital.
"Everybody is in agreement that Prop. A is the one thing that everybody can go into that ballot box and vote yes on," Davis-Howard said from the podium at the kickoff rally attended by hundreds of people outside the main entrance to San Francisco General. "This truly a unity campaign."
General Hospital needs to be rebuilt to meet state-mandated seismic standards or it faces closure in 2013. And Prop. A is the $887.4 million bond measure to finance the construction project.
Other Prop. A campaign backers joining Davis-Howard to speak in favor of the bond measure were Mayor Gavin Newsom, District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, Chamber of Commerce President Steve Falk, local Democratic and Republican party leaders Aaron Peskin and Howard Epstein, San Francisco Medical Society President Steven Fugaro and Episcopal Bishop Marc Andrus.
With Election Day fast approaching on Nov. 4th, Davis-Howard closed her comments with the sense of urgency the surrounds the campaign to save city’s only trauma center and its only hospital committed to delivering state-of-the-art health care to all.
"We can’t take anything for granted," she said, urging supporters to not only vote for Prop. A but to bring others to the polls, too. "You need to tell your neighbors to vote yes on Prop. A."
Click here to watch a video of the campaign kickoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZU-7kVbAjI
September 18, 2008
Campaign Kick Off
On Monday, September 15 at noon, Mayor Newsom, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, the chairs of the San Francisco Democratic, Republican and Green parties, leaders from business, labor and community groups and hundreds of doctors, nurses and health care workers will officially kick off the campaign to pass Proposition A and save San Francisco General Hospital. The kickoff will take place on the front lawn in front of San Francisco General Hospital. Email kpulaski.schools@whitehurstcampaigns.com for more information, and to confirm your attendance.
September 14, 2008