Transforming Health Care: UCSF Medical Center Receives Gift to Build New Hospital Complex

March 12, 2009

Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center, reflects on the impact of a $125 million donation for the development of the new hospital complex at Mission Bay.

Upon completion of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in 2014, the 289-bed complex will include a children’s hospital with urgent and emergency care and pediatric ambulatory care facilities, a women’s hospital for cancer care and specialty surgery, a center for mothers and newborns, and a hospital for adult cancer patients.

The integrated specialty hospitals will be strategically located on a 14.5-acre parcel adjacent to UCSF’s 43-acre biomedical research campus. That placement is designed to foster new advances in medicine by encouraging collaboration among basic scientists, clinical researchers and physicians.

“This children’s, women’s and cancer hospital will enable UCSF to carry through on the promise of uniting advanced biomedical research with world-class clinical care, so our research findings can be rapidly translated into medical advances that directly benefit patients,” said Laret.