Becker's Healthcare January 19, 2022
Elizabeth Polek, vice president of new hospital planning at University of California San Francisco Medical Center, and Stuart Eckblad, vice president of major capital projects for UCSF Health, want to make the Northern California medical center, ranked No. 9 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, more than a hospital.
“We think of this hospital as a place for healing, and so our inspiration is really around that,” Mr. Eckblad told Becker’s Jan. 13.
UCSF unveiled its architectural plans in December 2021, which featured a new tower to be built on the medical center’s Parnassus Heights campus. The tower will connect two existing towers and will increase capacity from 475 to 682 beds by 2030. In 2019,...