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Overview

Construction completed on this acute care building within the San Francisco General Hospital complex in 2016. 2016. Faceboook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated about $75 million or 7% of its 1.02 billion dollar cost. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School collaborated on the operation of this public teaching hospital, paying for about 1,500 of the 5,000 total workers employed there. The City and County of San Francisco established its first municipal hospital in 1857 in a former North Beach schoolhouse.

Building History

The San Francisco General Hospital has grown on this Potrero Hill site since 1872. Large-scale additions to the complex were made over the years in 1915, 1924, 1976 and 2016. In 2008, San Francisco voters passed by an 84% affirmative vote, an $888-million bond issue to erect a new acute care center amidst buildings of the earlier 1915 campus. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (born 05/14/1984 in White Plains, NY) and his wife Priscilla Chan (02/24/1985 in Braintree, MA) contributed to this bond money, adding their own $75 million donation. In gratitude for this largesse, the city named the campus in their honor, although only Zuckerberg's surname usually has been used in the hospital's title.

PCAD id: 24196