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To provide world-class patient care and safety at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, the campus is undergoing several major construction projects.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General is home to more than 150 years of health care architecture. Our campus facilities range from historic brick buildings constructed in 1887 and 1915, to our new inpatient hospital which began serving patients in 2016. Our latest construction projects are funded through the city’s 2016 Public Health and Safety Bond as well as other public and private sources, including the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.
ZSFG is updating its campus to continue improving service for our patients now and for generations to come. Upgrades in facilities, buildings, and infrastructure will help ZSFG prepare for the future, improve access to coordinated health care, and provide a healing space for our staff and patients.
Current capital improvements include relocating services from older buildings that may not perform as well during an earthquake into safer more modernized buildings. Other work includes the ongoing and much-needed seismic retrofit of the 1976 concrete hospital facility, known as Building 5, formerly the main hospital. For the retrofit, the building’s structural components are currently being reinforced to improve its seismic performance in a major earthquake.
Building 5 is currently being seismically retrofitted. Work began in 2019 and will eventually impact more than 200 locations within all seven floors of the building.
As part of this significant undertaking, construction crews are working floor by floor, strengthening the building. The Capital Team is working to minimize any staff and patient construction impacts.
Other Building 5 Upgrades:
UCSF’s new five-story research and academic building located at the southeast corner of the campus strengthens ZSFG’s long-standing partnership with the university. UCSF faculty is moving staff and lab operations from the older brick buildings on campus to this new, state-of-the-art facility featuring specialty research labs, biochemical testing facilities, and a simulation surgical training facility.
The 175,000 square-foot building will become the new home of the UCSF Community and Clinical Research Center and more than 800 UCSF faculty, staff, and trainees who will work in collaboration with ZSFG to carry out our shared mission in public health through research and training the next generation of medical professionals.
In 2022, Rehabilitation Services moved from the ground level of Building 5 to a bright, new, larger location on the 3rd floor. Conducting as many as 60,000 inpatient and outpatient sessions annually, the department now has a space that fosters the hard work of the department’s staff and the patients they serve.
In 2021, we added a seven-foot-tall glass barrier between the mezzanine pathway and balcony overlooking the new Building 25 lobby to enhance safety. This is part of our Building 25 optimization efforts.
In 2019, the Adult Urgent Care Center moved from Building 80 to the first floor of Building 5. The project improved access to care for patients and expanded the clinic space.
