Built in 1897 on land originally contributed by Adolph Sutro, former mayor of San Francisco, the University of California, San Francisco includes the 107-acre Parnassus campus that is home to graduate professionals in dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division for predoctoral and postdoctoral scientists; UCSF Medical Center; UCSF Children's Hospital; and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. UCSF, which encompasses several major sites in San Francisco in addition to its Parnassus Heights location above Golden Gate Park, also includes UCSF Mount Zion and maintains partnerships with two affiliated institutions, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. It is the only UC campus dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. And by virtue of the quality of its faculty, the excellence of its patient care, the scope of its many outreach programs and the many discoveries of its scientists, UCSF — part of the University of California since 1873 — is considered one of the nation's premier health sciences teaching, training and research centers.
The UCSF Medical Center continues to maintain clinical facilities at Mount Zion, including the Outpatient Cancer Center, the Women's Health Center, two medical office buildings, and about 90 inpatient beds in the Mount Zion Hospital.
As part of the current long-range planning effort for UCSF's inpatient medical facilities in light of state seismic requirements, UCSF has prepared a new Master Planning Study for the Mount Zion site which depicts several alternative ways in which that site might be used in various combinations of research, ambulatory care, inpatient, cooperative care (patient and patient-family housing), and parking uses. The Mount Zion Master Plan also incorporates plans for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine into the Mount Zion site.
UCSF is developing a major new campus at Mission Bay, containing 2.65 million gross square feet (gsf) of research and support uses, including housing for students and postdoctoral scholars. At least 8 acres of publicly-accessible open space will be located on the campus, and 2.2 acres are set aside for the San Francisco Unified School District for use as a public school site. Development of the entire campus may take 15-20 years, and an estimated 9,100 persons are expected to be employed at the Mission Bay campus at full buildout.
The first phase of development includes four research buildings (UCSF Genentech Hall, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Hall, and the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building), a Campus Community Center, an adjacent parking structure, a student housing project, and the development of major open space areas. Further information on the Mission Bay campus may be found at the UCSF Mission Bay Website.
In April 1999, UCSF published the Mission Bay Master Plan and Design Guidelines, which provides an overall framework to guide the physical development of the Mission Bay campus, and sets forth basic principles to guide the design of individual buildings at the site. The Master Plan also serves as a guide to site grading and landscaping, and the phased development of infrastructure serving the site.
Links:
UCSF Campus Facts & Figures
http://www.ucsf.edu/about_ucsf/profile.html
City and County of San Francisco
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/
California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
http://www.qb3.org/
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