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San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2010
Senior custodian William Wyatt was the first frontline #HealthcareHero at UCSF to receive a #COVID19 vaccine yesterday. William has been cleaning dirty linens in hospital rooms during the pandemic. #UCSFHeroes
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A team of 20 UCSF nurses & doctors traveled to New York today to care for patients at @nyphospital for the next month! We are grateful to this awesome group for volunteering to work in the heart of the #COVID19 pandemic—and to our equally awesome staff caring for patients in #SF.
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Today a UCSF team of 14 nurses & 7 doctors traveled to the Navajo Nation for a month to provide critical health-care support in the #COVID19 pandemic. #SF has comparatively fewer #coronavirus cases & hospitalizations, & we are proud to support our colleagues in the Navajo Nation.
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JUST IN: We rank among the Top 10 hospitals in the nation again, and we’re the No. 1 hospital for neurology and neurosurgery, according to @usnews! #BestHospitals 🎉.
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BREAKING: @USNews rankings are in! We’re the No. 1 hospital in California & among the #BestHospitals in the nation! 🎉
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RT to thank all the healthcare workers at UCSF—and around the world—caring for patients in their communities! #covid19 #coronavirus
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Our Respiratory Screening Clinic staff has been working around the clock to care for our patients in the #covid19 pandemic. They’re also pretty great dancers, when they take a break! 💃🏽🕺
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Wearing a mask "might be the difference between a case of #COVID19 that sends you to the hospital and a case so mild you don’t even realize you’re infected," UCSF #InfectiousDisease expert Dr. @MonicaGandhi9 writes in @ConversationUS.
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Martiano's care team cheered him on as he left our Intensive Care Unit after 33 days! Last month Martiano came to our hospital extremely sick with #COVID19 & was hooked up to a ventilator as he fought for his life. His providers were beyond thrilled to see him "graduate"! 👏👏
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Our nursing teams gave an amazing send-off to the 20 UCSF doctors and nurses who volunteered to work in the heart of the #COVID19 pandemic at @nyphospital in #NewYorkCity for the next month! 🌉❤️🗽.#UCSFHeroes
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GREAT NEWS: Today UCSF marked a milestone in the pandemic: We delivered our 100,000th dose of #COVID19 vaccine! Patient Dorita Fernandez received this milestone dose, as our staff cheered her on! 🎉
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New projections from UCSF epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford suggest #ShelterInPlace and other precautions have saved ~34K-44K lives in the #SF #BayArea. Please #KeepItUp and continue to #FlattenTheCurve to fight #COVID19. More data ➡️ @UCSF_Epibiostat
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Healthcare workers at our Parnassus hospital knelt for nine minutes in solidarity yesterday.
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Our staff is working tirelessly to screen & care for patients during the #covid19 pandemic. From providers screening patients in our new negative-pressure structures to those providing expert care in the hospital to staff keeping our facilities clean: THANK YOU. #UCSFresponds #SF
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Our medical staff has been caring for patients on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly a year. Today they were among the first in California to begin receiving vaccines. This is an exciting day in the fight against coronavirus. 👏
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We are here for you, #SanFrancisco! Please continue to shelter-in-place for all healthcare workers and our entire community! 💪
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Please RT to congratulate Ron! He's back home after 60+ days in our hospital recovering from #COVID19, including several weeks in the ICU on a ventilator! Our staff gave him an emotional send-off today!
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Today we sent a 2nd group of 19 UCSF nurses & doctors to the Navajo Nation to provide healthcare support in the #COVID19 pandemic for ~5 weeks! They will be joining our first team of 21 providers, many of whom opted to extend their stay to continue supporting local colleagues.
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JUST IN: We're the No. 1 hospital in California & the No. 5 hospital in the US, according to @USNews! #BestHospitals
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#SF is the safest metropolitan US city, when it comes to #COVID19 mortality, an analysis finds. SF with its "78% full vax rate, & sensible mask & other policies since Mar 2020—has had 672 Covid deaths, 1/3rd the US per capita rate," Dr. @Bob_Wachter says.
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All current data suggest that the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines are effective against the Delta variant, UCSF's Dr. @KBibbinsDomingo told @NewsHour: "It is absolutely essential that we stay focused on getting the rest of the people in the US vaccinated.
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Serina, a nurse at our @OfficialCCSF vaccination site, graduated with her bachelor of science in nursing over the weekend, & our staff held an impromptu ceremony for her at work! Serina graduated with a 4.0, while working & helping her three kids with remote learning. #NursesWeek
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Today @StephenCurry30 and @united surprised our team of 20 UCSF doctors and nurses traveling to #NYC before take-off with this inspiring video! Our staff will fill critical needs at @nyphospital in the epicenter of the #COVID19 pandemic for the next month. #UCSFHeroes
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We’re preparing for a possible increase in #covid19 patients by adding 53 new beds at our Mount Zion hospital. This expansion is part of a plan to increase capacity throughout #SanFrancisco, so we can continue to care for all who need it.
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BREAKING: We’re proud to rank among the Top 10 hospitals in the nation, according to @usnews! #BestHospitals
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Our team of 20 UCSF nurses and doctors working in New York City for the next month in the heart of the #COVID19 pandemic has arrived safely. The team started at @nyphospital in #NYC today! 🗽
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GREAT NEWS: We rank among the Top 10 hospitals in the nation again, according to @usnews! #BestHospitals
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BREAKING: UC regents have approved @UCSF's plans to build a new state-of-the-art hospital at Parnassus Heights! Opening in 2030, the new hospital will help us serve the Bay Area & region’s growing healthcare needs, in a beautiful, healing environment!
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Over the weekend, four additional UCSF providers traveled to #NYC to join our team working at @nyphospital in the heart of the #COVID19 pandemic! We now have 25 doctors and nurses on temporary assignment in New York City.
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RT to wish our nurses a happy #NursesWeek! Our amazing nurses care for patients with grace and expertise during the COVID-19 pandemic and every day—we'll be celebrating them all week! 🎉👏. 😷 Some clips predate mask policies!
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BREAKING: The Helen Diller Foundation has committed $500 million to help build a new hospital on our Parnassus campus.
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"If everybody wore a mask, the rate of new cases would go down tremendously," UCSF's Dr. @Bob_Wachter told @abc7newsbayarea. "It wouldn't go down to zero; the masks aren't 100% perfect, but they're pretty darn good." #COVID19
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PLEASE SHARE: Help front-line UCSF providers caring for all who need it during the #covid19 pandemic by donating critical supplies such as masks, disposable gloves & more at three sites in #SanFrancisco and #Oakland starting tomorrow. ➡️ #coronavirus #sf
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In just a few days #SFHospitalMeals has raised ~$300,000 & donated 1,600+ meals to San Francisco healthcare workers at the heart of the #covid19 pandemic. The project aims to deliver quality meals to hospitals, including ours, while also supporting local restaurants!
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A team of UCSF engineers, doctors & students are using 3D printers to mass-produce face shields for our hospitals during the #covid19 pandemic! Last week the group printed 600 shields for front-line providers—they're ramping up production & hope to deliver 1,500 each week soon!
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Our neuro team sent a bi-coastal message of support to their counterparts at @nyphospital who are caring for patients in the heart of the #COVID19 pandemic in New York City! 🌉 ❤️🗽
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@DrLiver @MDaware @tnicholsmd . to assess clinical need for COVID-19 hospitalization. Those criteria have not changed during the current surge. As a university, we celebrate academic freedom, and Dr. Prasad has a right to voice his opinions. However, we respectfully disagree with him on this issue. (2/2).
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RT to congratulate Michael—he finally headed home after 124 days in the hospital with severe #COVID19! 👏👏
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In Nov. 1918 #SanFrancisco lifted #SocialDistancing & mask requirements & experienced a deadly 2nd wave of Spanish flu. "Ending these kinds of control measures too early can lead to excess mortality," UCSF's Dr. George Rutherford says, noting that a cautious approach is needed.
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A UCSF team has released a new real-time interactive tool tracking total and new #COVID19 cases at the county level in the U.S.! ➡️ h/t @vivicality @atulbutte #FlattenTheCurve!
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GREAT NEWS: We are significantly expanding #COVID19 testing at UCSF Health, with support from @ChanZuckerberg and @czbiohub. This increased testing capacity should benefit patients throughout #SanFrancisco. #coronavirus.
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UCSF epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford believes early #ShelterInPlace orders in six #BayArea counties have saved between 34K & 44K lives from #COVID19. Thank you to our community for making a difference and please #KeepItUp. @UCSF_Epibiostat.
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Air quality in #SF today is the worst ever recorded in the city. Please contact your provider if you experience shortness of breath, wheezing, palpitations, chest pain or other concerning symptoms. #CampFireSmoke.
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Taking #Paxlovid soon after testing positive decreases risk of #LongCOVID, a new study finds—which "should convince more doctors to prescribe it and more patients to take it," especially patients 60 & older, UCSF chair of medicine Dr. @Bob_Wachter says.
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"We’re actually quite lucky here in #SF Bay that we haven't had the surge," says UCSF's Dr. Sajan Patel, who has been caring for #COVID19 patients. "We have the resources right now" to care for all who need it. Please #KeepItUp & #FlattenTheCurve.
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Merhawit has been cleaning rooms for #COVID19 patients since the early days of the pandemic. “Merhawit was brave, proud & worked extremely hard under unknown circumstances,” her colleagues say. Happy #HospitalWeek to Merhawit & all of our amazing staff! #UCSFheroes
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#BA5 is "more infectious" & "substantially more invasive of the immune system," UCSF chair of medicine Dr. @Bob_Wachter tells @KQED. "Your vaccines and your boosters still work to prevent severe infections, and I highly recommend them."
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Congrats to Sheri & Robert, who were married yesterday in a @49ers-themed ceremony in our ICU after 20 years together! Robert has throat cancer & came to us by ambulance on Thursday. "We’ve always wanted to get married," Sheri says. "Now that he’s sick, we just decided to do it."
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BREAKING: So proud to rank among the #BestHospitals in the country, according to @usnews! We’re No. 2 in the nation for Neurology & Neurosurgery and Best in Northern California in nine specialties! 🎉.
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“It’s unbelievable the sense of sacrifice & selflessness in you stepping up to the call to serve people & go above & beyond.” .THANK YOU, @StephenCurry30 @united, for the shout-out to our #UCSFHeroes caring for patients at @nyphospital in NYC this month & in #SF every day.
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PLEASE SHARE these important tips from our Emergency Department for protesting safely during these challenging times. Our ER is located at 505 Parnassus Ave. in #SanFrancisco. We are here for your medical needs. #SF
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THANK YOU to everyone who donated critical items for front-line providers at our hospitals! We received 100,000+ masks, gloves & other PPE at our #SanFrancisco donation sites alone. We're still accepting donations in #SF, Oakland & by mail ➡️ #covid19
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"We're doing the right thing now and saving lives, and we have to keep it up." —UCSF's Dr. @Bob_Wachter.#FlattenTheCurve #KeepItUp.
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RT to wish a happy #DoctorsDay to all the dedicated physicians who tirelessly care for patients during the #covid19 outbreak and every day!
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Preston was too sick with leukemia to attend his daughter's wedding, so our BMT unit surprised him with a hospital ceremony! He was thrilled to walk his daughter down "the aisle"!
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We performed our 20,000th organ transplant! Our transplant program started in the 1960s & has some of the highest patient survival rates in the country. Congrats to our entire transplant team & the patient, who is recovering after receiving a new heart!
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Welcome, Dr. Krishna Komanduri, who joins UCSF Health as our new Hematology-Oncology chief on 7/1! @drkomanduri has held leadership positions in hematologic malignancies and transplantation & authored/co-authored six books & 125 peer-reviewed articles. 👏
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After 4+ months in the hospital & 80 days in our ICU with severe #COVID19, Philip played baseball with his rehab team in our courtyard! He looks forward to heading home to Lakeport, where he plays third base & chairs the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians' Tribal Council! 🎉⚾
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#NursePractitioner Elisabeth Gundersen spent her weekend shopping for seniors & people with chronic health conditions in #Oakland who couldn’t leave their homes for essentials. TY to all our staff caring for the community inside & outside the hospital! 👏 #UCSFresponds #covid19
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PLEASE SHARE: As the number of #covid19 cases grow, each of us can take steps to help slow transmission in our community. Protective measures can help #FlattenTheCurve, so the total number of cases spread over a longer time period, allowing hospitals to care for all who need it.
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RT to thank all the #RespiratoryTherapists providing exceptional care to our sickest patients during the #COVID19 pandemic! #RTsRock #UCSFHeroes
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“The medical team from UCSF has been a blessing to the Navajo people,” @NNPrezNez says. “Their resources, combined with our resources, have certainly saved lives.".Proud to fight #COVID19 alongside our colleagues in the Navajo Nation!
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"For the last six months, we've done a lot of things right. We need to keep doing that," UCSF's Dr. @Bob_Wachter says of #SF's relatively low #COVID19 death rate, compared with other U.S. cities. #KeepItUp, San Francisco!.
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@DrLiver @MDaware @tnicholsmd At UCSF, we stand in solidarity with health systems nationwide struggling with the crush of severely ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospital care, often exceeding hospital capacity. Throughout the pandemic, UCSF Health & other health systems have fine-tuned the criteria. (1/2).
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"It’s just not that complicated: Masks work." - UCSF's Dr. @Bob_Wachter on #SanFrancisco's comparatively low #COVID19 infection and death rates—and the threat of a third wave this fall. #MaskUp #KeepItUp.
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Dr. Larry Baskin & his son, Dr. Avi Baskin, are both UCSF urologists! Father & son both went to @UCBerkeley for undergrad, @UCLA for med school & @UCSFMedicine for residency. Avi is currently a 3rd-year resident in #urology at UCSF, & Larry is chief of urology at @UCSFChildrens!
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#Paxlovid may reduce the risk for #LongCovid, UCSF's Dr. @Bob_Wachter tells @sciam—& if he tests positive, he plans to take the drug himself: “I’m certainly going to give it to high-risk people. Most of my colleagues who have gotten COVID have taken it.”
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Given #COVID19's death rate, reaching herd immunity through infections could kill ~2M Americans, UCSF’s @Bob_Wachter told @KCBSRadio. That's why we must continue to #FlattenTheCurve & #SocialDistance until effective treatments or a vaccine are available.
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Northern California currently has the worst air quality in the world. Masks are not a substitute for staying indoors. Here's a map of filtered air shelters in #SF: #CampFireSmoke
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RT to wish a happy #DoctorsDay to all the exceptional physicians who care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and every day!
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Paxlovid did not reduce #LongCOVID risk for vaccinated adults experiencing their first COVID infection, a UCSF study finds. That "surprised us, but it is consistent with two other rigorously conducted studies,” Dr. Matthew @durstenfeld says.
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THANK YOU to the ~30 @UCSFMedicine students who planned, organized & staffed blood drives this week to benefit our patients and the greater community! #Blood supplies around the country have decreased during the #covid19 pandemic, and we are so grateful for this effort.
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BIG NEWS: New “neuroprosthesis” tech has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences by decoding full words from his brain! Congrats to Dr. Eddie Chang & team on this achievement—which could be life-changing for people with speech loss!
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Calif. has made progress #FlatteningTheCurve, but "that does not mean that it’s time to. go back to our old habits," UCSF's @Bob_Wachter tells @KQED. "There still is virus in the community & the vast, vast majority of us have not been exposed." #COVI19
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PLEASE SHARE: Starting today 3/23 we're accepting donations of masks, disposable gloves & other critical items for front-line providers at our hospitals. Convenient drop-off at 3 locations in #SanFrancisco & #Oakland. Details here ➡️ #covid19 #coronavirus
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JUST IN: We rank among the nation’s #BestHospitals again, according to @usnews! We’re No. 2 in the U.S. for Neurology & Neurosurgery! 🎉
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GREAT NEWS: The new UCSF Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building, located at Mission Bay, brings together clinicians and scientists to provide extraordinary neurological and psychiatric care and advance research!
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UCSF #Nurses Recognized Nationally for Excellence in Patient Care & Innovation So proud of our amazing nurses! 🎉👏
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In 1996, two UCSF doctors, @Bob_Wachter & Lee Goldman, wrote an article in the @NEJM proposing a new type of doctor, the hospitalist. 23 years later, there are now about 60,000 U.S. #hospitalists specializing in inpatient care! #NationalHospitalistDay.
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So proud of all the @UCSF labs—and labs around the world—working around the clock to find treatments for #COVID19. #coronavirus #sf.
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In the first 10 months they were available, #COVID vaccines prevented ~1.5 million infections, ~73K hospitalizations & nearly 20K deaths in CA, a @UCSF/@CAPublicHealth study found. “The impacts that vaccines have had. are dramatic,” @NathanLo3579 says.
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UCSF nurse Denise Barchas threw the first pitch at an @sfgiants game this week! Denise has been caring for patients in our ICU throughout the pandemic & even traveled to New York City in 2020 to work alongside healthcare workers at @NYPHospital at the height of their surge! 👏⚾
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Fatima & Jeff were married in a beautiful ceremony at our hospital! The couple planned to marry in 2020, but COVID delayed their wedding plans. Fatima is pregnant & was recently hospitalized when her water broke early, so our Antepartum Unit staff organized a hospital wedding! 🎉
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"When faced with a patient who potentially had the #covid19 virus, Dr. Kolli selflessly insisted that our fellow sit outside of the room and did the procedure without him, so that he did not have to be exposed as well." Happy #DoctorsDay, Dr. K. Pallav Kolli! @UCSFimaging
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@kaatelynnrenee We're so glad to hear that your family had a good experience at our hospital, Katie. Best wishes to you and your mom!.
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Happy 30th anniversary to our Lung Transplant Program! Since 1991, we've performed nearly 1,000 lung transplants, taking on some of the sickest patients, while maintaining excellent survival rates. We're very proud of this exceptional team! 👏👏👏
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