"Save St. Mary's" Doctors Issue Statement Responding to UCSF Acquisition of St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco
The doctors of "Save St. Mary's" issued the following statement responding to the recent announcement that UCSF has signed an agreement to acquire St. Mary's Medical Center:
"We applaud UCSF for preserving the rich 167-year history of St. Mary's with this acquisition. By maintaining St. Mary's as a community hospital with independent doctors, our patients will continue to receive our award-winning care, with UCSF as a wonderful partner to support and reinforce our efforts. We are so happy the Women's Center and the Sister Mary Philippa Clinic will continue to operate and serve the community under UCSF and look forward to working collaboratively with UCSF Health as the transition moves forward over the coming months."
About Save St. Mary's
"Save St. Mary's" was started by a committed group of St. Mary's Medical Center doctors in San Francisco, to ensure that the hospital and its award-winning medical services and programs remain part of the community for future generations.
Established in 1857, St. Mary's is San Francisco's oldest continuously operating hospital.
St. Mary's Medical Center is a trusted community hospital committed to providing immediate, accessible and affordable health care.
St. Mary's was selected as one of the top 250 hospitals in the United States by Health Grades and received an A rating from Leapfrog, as a result of the committed doctors, nurses, and other frontline staff at the hospital.
"Save St. Mary's" doctors include:
-Dr. Remo Morelli, St. Mary's President of the Medical Staff and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory; Doctor at St. Mary's since 1985.
-Dr. Eugene Groeger, St. Mary's Vice Chief of Staff and Chief of Vascular Surgery. Practicing surgeon at St. Mary's for 43 years.
-Dr. Pamela Lewis, St. Mary's Chief of Surgery, Breast Cancer Surgeon, and Head of the St. Mary's Women's Center.
-Dr. Kenneth Mills, St. Mary's Internal medicine and HIV specialist with over 45 years serving patients at St. Mary's.
-Dr. Diana Hilbert, St. Mary's Internal Medicine Specialist and Director of Women's Health Services; Clinical teaching faculty for the St. Mary's medicine residency training program for the past 27 years.
-Dr. Charles Allison, St. Mary's Internal Medicine Specialist. Practicing physician at St. Mary's for the past 52 years.
-Dr. Terrie Mendelson, Internal Medicine Physician
-Dr. Jennifer van Warmerdam, Orthopedic Surgeon
-Dr. Warren Chang, St. Mary's Section chief for Nephrology and Clinical teaching faculty, Internal Medicine Residency for the last 20 years.
About St. Mary's Medical Center
St. Mary's is San Francisco's oldest continuously operating hospital and it was the first Catholic hospital west of the Rockies. It was founded by the Sisters of Mercy, who endured a two-month voyage from Ireland to California and established the hospital in 1857. Over the past 167 years, St. Mary's cared for victims of cholera, smallpox, typhoid, flu, the 1906 Earthquake, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19, and continues to treat San Franciscans in need. St. Mary's recently volunteered personnel and donated over $4 million to vaccinate San Franciscans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
St. Mary's is one of only two hospitals with full emergency departments on the west side of San Francisco.
St. Mary's is home to many important medical "firsts."
o Established the first accredited nursing school in California,
o Achieved the first hip replacement in California,
o Performed the first balloon angioplasty ever performed in the United States,
o Created one of the first AIDS Dementia Units in the United States,
o Home to newly-invented, transformational back and spinal treatments,
o First hospital in San Francisco to offer Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound (ABUS), in conjunction with mammography tomosynthesis, to diagnose breast cancers early, and,
o St. Mary's has a state-of-the-art cancer center.
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