UCSF Health history

The college prospered, and Toland sought to affiliate with the University of California, which had opened its campus in Berkeley in 1868.

In 1873 Toland Medical College was deeded to the Regents of the University of California, which had been founded five years earlier, and it became UC’s Medical Department; the following year it opened its doors to women students.

On November 3, 1887, 43 members of San Francisco’s Jewish community met for the first time to plan a hospital in the San Francisco area "for the purpose of aiding the indigent sick without regard to race or creed, to be supported by the Jewish community."

The hospital began operations under the Mount Zion Association in January of 1897.

San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro donated 13 acres on a site overlooking Golden Gate Park — known today as Parnassus Heights — and the new Affiliated Colleges buildings opened in fall 1898.

More than 40,000 people took shelter and sought treatment in a tent city in Golden Gate Park after the great 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

In 1907, the UC Training School for Nurses was established, adding a fourth professional school to the Affiliated Colleges.

In 1911, the last member of the American Indian Yahi tribe began living on the Parnassus campus.

One key achievement came in 1914, when the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research selected Parnassus as the site for its work.

He continued to live on Parnassus until 1916, when he died of tuberculosis.

A 1941 nursing class in Toland Hall, with the murals of Bernard Zakheim, student of famed artist Diego Rivera, adorning the walls in the background.

In 1949, the UC Hospital was officially renamed "University of California Medical Center."

When the Medical Sciences Building was completed in 1958, the basic science departments had a new home on the same campus as the clinical departments, uniting the medical college for the first time in 50 years.

Elmer Laursen was hired by Lutheran Social Services of Northern California (LSS) to be the chaplain at UCSF. The first CPE program began in the summer of 1961 under Rev.

In 1967, St John of God Catholic Parish was established by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco to serve the Catholic patients, students and staff of the UCSF Medical Center.

On November 1, 1997, as a response to the pressure of the ever-changing landscape of health care reimbursement, UCSF Medical Center and Stanford Hospital and Clinics merged to form UCSF Stanford Health Care, a private, not-for-profit medical center.

In June 1998, following the departure of Rabbi Silberman, Rev.

By April 1, 2000, the merger creating UCSF Stanford Health Care was dissolved.

Since 2005, 2.5 FTE staff positions have been added to the Spiritual Care department, even as the Medical Center was downsizing.

Doctor Peter Yuichi Clark joined the UCSF Spiritual Care Department in June 2010 as Manager of Spiritual Care Services.

The medical center received a philanthropic donation of $100 million from Chuck Feeney in February 2015, the largest gift by an individual in the history of the UC system.