Patient Care
Cancer inpatient and ambulatory care services are integrated throughout the UCSF hospital and campus system: at the UCSF/Mount Zion campus, in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco; at Moffitt-Long Hospitals and the Crede Ambulatory Care Center, on UCSF's Parnassus Heights campus; at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center; and at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (more info about UCSF hospitals and clinics)
UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
Outpatient facilities for radiation oncology, breast care (including diagnostic mammography), infusion, gastrointestinal cancers (liver, stomach, pancreas, esophageal, and others), urologic cancers (prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular, and others), melanoma, orthopedic oncology (bone cancer), thoracic oncology, and gynecological oncology are located at the UCSF/Mount Zion campus. There, a five-story, 88,000-square-foot building at the corner of Divisadero and Sutter Streets includes modern, patient-friendly facilities, completed in 2000.
The main entrance to UCSF/Mount Zion is at 1600 Divisadero Street, between Post and Sutter Streets. Public parking is available at 1635 Divisadero Street; enter on Sutter between Divisadero and Broderick Streets. The current rate is $1.50 per 20 minutes, up to a $15 daily maximum.
>>Mt. Zion map, directions, public transportation
Other facilities at the UCSF/Mount Zion campus include the Ida & Joseph Friend Cancer Resource Center, a multimedia library and centralized hub for supportive services targeted to patients and caregivers, and Friend to Friend, a boutique operated by the Hospital Auxiliary of the UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center, which provides a variety of specialized products and services for cancer patients.
UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus
The UCSF/Parnassus campus is the center for patient care in neurologic oncology (brain and spinal cord tumors); leukemia, lymphoma, and other hematopoietic malignancies; bone marrow transplant; and pediatric oncology.
Inpatient services are located at 505 Parnassus Avenue, near Golden Gate Park, where a 15-story, 600-bed main hospital comprises two adjoining buildings and UCSF Children's Hospital. Outpatient clinics are centralized in the Crede Ambulatory Care Center, across from the hospital at 400 Parnassus Avenue.
Public parking is available at 500 Parnassus Avenue, with two garage entrances -- one on the north side of Parnassus Avenue and another on Irving Street, just east of Third Avenue. The current rate is $2.50 per hour, up to a $20 daily maximum.
>>Parnassus map, directions, public transportation
SFGH Medical Center and San Francisco VA Medical Center
UCSF faculty and health care providers, including many faculty members of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, also treat patients at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco, Dept. of Public Health; and at San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, a tertiary-care referral center operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides services for veterans throughout Northern California.
>>Campus maps for SFGH and VAMC
Laboratory Research
The Cancer Center's 110,000-square-foot laboratory research building at the UCSF/Mount Zion campus includes more than 250 lab work stations (60,000 square feet), offices for 48 principal investigators, and a 10,000-square-foot, high-tech animal care facility.
Cancer Center faculty investigators also conduct lab research at the UCSF/Parnassus Heights campus, as well as at the San Francisco General Hospital and Veterans Affairs Medical Center sites. A growing proportion of cancer-related research takes place at UCSF/Mission Bay, a new, 43-acre campus for teaching and research that is the latest addition to the UCSF enterprise.
At UCSF/Mission Bay, the Cancer Center broke ground in Spring 2006 for the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, a state-of-the-art research facility designed by noted architect Rafael Viñoly. The five-story building will provide more than 160,000 square feet of research space, which will enable a dramatic expansion of programs focused on cancers of the prostate, kidney, and brain. It will also house the UCSF Cancer Research Institute, whose laboratories investigate the basic biological mechanisms of cancer.
>>more about the Diller Building
>>more about UCSF Mission Bay
