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Health Care Services Sector

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Cancer Patient Booted from UCSF

    ​Angel Raich is busy dying. The famous marijuana activist -- who took the federal government to the Supreme Court of the United States for the right to use medical cannabis -- was, earlier this year diagnosed with an inoperable terminal brain tumor, a condition that causes frequent seizures as wel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    New Leaf, LGBT Mental Health Center, Closing Doors

    Sadly, New Leaf is being turned over​Exploding costs of health care benefits and leases will force New Leaf -- a 35-year-old San Francisco center serving the LGBT community with mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS services -- to close in October. The center's board of directors announced ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2009

    Girl v. Autoimmune Disorder

    Sadly, New Leaf is being turned over​Exploding costs of health care benefits and leases will force New Leaf -- a 35-year-old San Francisco center serving the LGBT community with mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS services -- to close in October. The center's board of directors announced ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Bogus UCSF Hospital Booksellers Just the Latest Scammers From Shady Company

    On Monday, we noted that San Franciscans were reporting door-to-door booksellers claiming to be fund-raising for UCSF Children's Hospital -- which was news to hospital officials. The UCSF Police have since confirmed that Terry Brisendine of the Michigan-based magazine clearinghouse World Wide Circul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    IHOP Pancake Giveaway to Benefit Local Hospital -- Depending Upon Your Definition of 'Local'

    If you like eating pancakes and helping kids -- and don't particularly care where those kids are -- IHOP has a deal for youIn one of the more stunningly bad product tie-ins in recent memory, the good people over at the International House of Pancakes have declared next Tuesday to be National Pancake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    U.C. San Francisco Reports Young Rapscallion Book-Selling Scam

    U.C. San Francisco has put out the word that anyone who receives an offer to buy books to supposedly benefit the city's Children's Hospital should do what those confronted with books did in Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 411: Call the authorities. Hospital officials have received reports of young men goin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    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 >>

  • News

    April 30, 2008

    Union, Heal Thyself

    Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

  • News

    April 9, 2008

    UCSF Is First Hospital in California with a Musician in Residence

    Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2007

    Alliance between SEIU and nursing home chains now defunct

    Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

  • News

    April 11, 2007

    Union Disunity

    The secret deal worked out between SEIU bosses and nursing home owners denies union members the right to speak out, strike, or protect patients

  • News

    April 27, 2005

    The Politics of Cynicism

    SEIU lobbies for nursing home chains. Clint Reilly vs. Jack Davis, redux. Kerry raises money for Reilly's wife. Fabulous. Absolutely Fabulous.

  • News

    June 30, 2004

    Partners in Slime

    The California service employees' union and the nursing home industry join forces to increase corporate profit, grow union membership, and sell out abused nursing home patients

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Children's Hospital

    UCSF Children's Hospital

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    Hospital, Heal Thyself

    The rebuilding of the Laguna Honda nursing home is already three years behind schedule and millions over budget -- and the final plans aren't even finished yet

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    Dirty Laundry

    Literally and figuratively, the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger gets fouler every day

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    Sutter's Empire Strikes Back

    Two lawsuits allege conflict of interest, sharp dealing

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    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.

  • Calendar

    September 17, 1997

    Daring Daylght Merger

    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.

  • News

    March 19, 1997

    Temperature Rising

    The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

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