California Pacific Medical Center

"Miracle" Cannabis Oil: May Treat Cancer, But Money and the Law Stand in the Way of Finding Out

Activists Gang Up on Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall

Today, protesters came at Mayor Ed Lee from all sides -- literally. On the Van Ness side of City Hall, a mix of Bay Area residents, politicos, and average Joes, gathered to oppose the mayor's controversial Stop & Frisk idea. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Hall, residents rallied against Lee ... More >>

So Long KoKo, Nojo Charges No-Shows, and Don't Sit On That Bench

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. And so it goes: KoKo Cocktails, the beloved Tenderloin bar, has announced it will shutter on July 30, as California Pacific Medical Center sets to move in. The Tender announces it will go out with an epic ... More >>

Put on Your Sunday Breast And Get On Board the Big Pink Bus

Apparently, other women's causes also like big pink buses. ​Today, the Department of Public Health spokeswoman sent out a press release with a warning: "No snickering." It turns out the Big Pink Bus will be pulling up to California Pacific Medical Center on Sunday at 3698 California St. No, Prince ... More >>

Leland Yee: Why He's Ahead in the Polls

People love to hate Leland and that always makes for a good front runner in a race​Last week, we detailed a story about how State Sen. Leland Yee is pro-medical marijuana -- until he's not. As SF Weekly reported, Yee attended a medical marijuana meeting, telling pot smokers that he supports them a ... More >>

LGBT Equality: Bay Area Hospitals Are Leading the Country

Human Rights Commissioner Cecilia Chung stars in the video on LGBT healthcare equality. ​Here is some good news coming on the heels of Gay Pride: Hospitals in the Bay Area -- San Francisco in particular -- are way ahead of the curve when it comes to how they treat LGBT patients, according to a Hum ... More >>

Ti Couz may become Giordano Bros., Koko Cocktails not done yet

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. As Ti Couz's closing date hangs in the air, Inside Scoop reports the space (3108 16th Ave.) may have a buyer. Giordano Bros. has filed a liquor licenses for the address, but sandwich lovers should remain ... More >>

Will 'Coordinated Healthcare' Save San Francisco Millions?

Tommy, first let's collect some 'metadata'​When multimillion dollar businesses adopt language and sales strategies befitting used car dealers -- or worse, Crazy Eddie -- consumers would be wise to clutch tightly to their wallets. Well, tomorrow the city and a bevy of its health providers will anno ... More >>

Stimulating Debate

S.F.'s employment rate is relatively good, but city leaders can still create more jobs. Here's how.

Remembering Joe Lynn

Joe Lynn​Joe Lynn, a San Francisco good government and transparency advocate who was pitching reporters stories even on his deathbed, died in December after a bout with Leukemia at age 64. He had been living several months on borrowed time, after walking out of California Pacific Medical Center in ... More >>

Fight Ends For Good Government Advocate Joe Lynn, Who Dies at 64

Over the summer, Joe Lynn's condition grew so dire that his close friends gathered for somber discussions about the pending decision to pull the plug. At the time, one of them told me "It will take a miracle" for Lynn to ever wake up again. And yet, after 50 days in California Pacific Medical Cente ... More >>

Good Government Advocate Joe Lynn Rises From the Dead -- Almost

Joe Lynn -- a former commissioner and staffer with the Ethics Commission and a self-admitted good government kvetch who was a fixture at the commission's meetings -- is now able to do something many people dream about, but few experience. He can read his own obituaries. Lynn told SF Weekly he's le ... More >>

Economic Rx: Hospital Boom Cures San Francisco's Jobs Ills

We've got your stimulus -- right here! While the economic diagnosis for the rest of America looks grim, San Francisco may be remedied by a construction boom in hospitals. In addition to California Pacific Medical Center's plans to build a 555-bed hospital on Van Ness at the site of the old Cathedral ... More >>

Bad Medicine

A nurses' union joins antidevelopment forces to prevent a new hospital from being built.

Note to the Privately Insured: St. Luke's Wants You!

By Lauren Smiley Billboards have popped up around the city this month in a new ad campaign from California Pacific Medical Center reading, "Rediscover St. Luke's....the SoMa gateway to California Pacific Medical Center. We're here to stay!" It sounds a tad bit defiant, but marketers figure th ... More >>

Latest plastic surgery trend among Asian-American women

After 14 Years, His SFPD Paperwork is Approved

To Serve & Collect

Nearly extinct and long at odds with the SFPD, the little-known San Francisco Patrol Special Police appears poised for a comeback.

Maimed Brothers Flee San Francisco Violence

Letters to the Editor

Week of 5-2-2007

No Hail Caesarean

Expectant mothers are losing an option to birth babies naturally and activists are charging it is more about money than safety

A Test of Faith

A controversial San Francisco study is spending taxpayers' money to see if Christian clergy, Indian medicine men, and Tibetan lamas can heal patients with AIDS and brain tumors

Bitter Medicine

How Naiveté, greed, and the new new thing brought Brown & Toland, San Francisco's largest doctors' group, to the verge of bankruptcy

Night + Day

Letters

Sutter's Giant Sucking Sound

Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

Night + Day

Letters

Unhealthy Debate

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Mulch

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's