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 that such chutzpah was in order for a money-bleeding Mission hospital that has battled rumors and the reality of closing before and after being merged by health-care giant Sutter Health at the first of
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 going door to door and selling books for roughly $40 a pop to supposedly benefit UCSF Children's Hospital. Hospital Executive Director Roxanne Fernandes -- who ougtta know -- recently confirmed that she's
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 Day. Next Tuesday, is, of course, Mardi Gras, a day best known for out-and-out boozing, carousing, and public indecency in exchange for a nickel's worth of Made in Taiwan plastic beads. What's more,
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 Circulation reported to them that the still-unidentified young men were selling literature on behalf of the company. She stressed that the receipts given to those purchasing from the door-to-door sellers no
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
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.
University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service.
Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is
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