Voices of Support

Community, Educational & Labor Organizations | Businesses/Local Merchants | Our Doctors | Our Staff

Setting the Record Straight: Letter to Our Community Partners

California Pacific Medical Center is proud to have the support of more than 80 San Francisco organizations and businesses, who believe in our plan to Rebuild CPMC. That includes health care and social service providers, who collectively serve more than half a million people; community, educational and labor organizations that collectively represent more than 100,000 San Franciscans; and local businesses which are crucial to the city's economy. These groups reflect the true diversity of the community which we are privileged to serve. Click the names below to read their letters of support.

Health & Social Services

ALS Association
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes Association
American Heart Association
APA Family Support Services
API Wellness Center
Asian Week Foundation
Asian Women's Resource Center
Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services, Inc.
Boys Hope Girls Hope
Coming Home Hospice
Conard House
Dance Out Diabetes
Gum Moon's Women's Residence
Institute on Aging
Kimochi
Latina Breast Cancer Agency
San Francisco LGBT Center
Lions Eye Foundation
Maitri
March of Dimes Foundation
Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Muscular Dystrophy Association
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.
North East Medical Services
On Lok
Operation Access
Operation Rainbow
The Peter Michael Foundation
Prostate Cancer Resource
Project Homeless Connect
San Francisco Free Clinic
San Francisco Medical Society
Self Help for the Elderly
Sisters Network
St. Anthony Foundation
Women's Community Clinic

Community, Educational & Labor Organizations

AfroSolo
Alamo Square Neighborhood Association
Alliance for Jobs and Sustainable Growth
Bayview Hunters Point Mobilization for Adolescent Growth in Our Communities (BMAGIC)
Buena Vista Neighborhood Association
Calvary Hill Community Church
Carpenters Local 22
De Marillac Academy
Episcopal Diocese of California
Instituto Laboral De La Raza
Ironworkers Local 377
Laborers International Union of North America, Local 261
Mission Language and Vocational Schooll
Mo'MAGIC
NAACP
Operating Engineers Local Union 3
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 38
SF Building and Construction Trades Council
San Francisco Chinese Club
SF Electrical Construction Industry (SFECI)
San Francisco Japanese American Citizens League
San Francisco Lighthouse
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)
San Francisco Towers Residents' Council
Service Employees International Union
Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 104
Stephen Shortell, Ph.D., MPH, MBA, Dean of UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Teamsters Automotive & Allied Workers Local Union 665

Business/Local Merchants

A-G Pharmacy
Ah Lin Restaurant
Bay Area Council
Building Owners & Managers Association
Casa Lopez Produce & Meat
Clooney's Pub
Driscoll's Valencia Street Serra Mortuary
EHS Pilates
El Patio Retaurant
Express Print
Frontlyne Video
Kragen Auto Parts
Kyoto Sushi
Little Henry's Italian Food
Macha Café
The Magazine
Merchants of Upper Market & Castro
Mission Merchants Association
Noe Valley Merchants & Professionals Association, Inc
Pacific Plaza Café
R&M Automotive
Red Door Café
Revolution Café
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Wok Shop Café

Our Doctors and Staff

"[We] the physicians at CPMC are committed to providing the highest-quality care to our patients, by working as a team with our nurses, our administrators, and all of the hospital staff who are dedicated to improving health outcomes for all. We will be building a new ho spital in San Francisco to improve our service. CPMC is here to stay and we will continue to be the hospital of choice in San Francisco to receive the best care and service that can be provided." – Damian Augustyn, M.D., Chief of Staff

California Pacific is proud to partner with more than 1,000 physicians and employ roughly 6,600 people. Many of you have already become involved in planning for our future. Here's what some have said:

Our Doctors
Letter of support from St. Luke's medical staff

"The new St. Luke's Hospital will be the physical manifestation of this campus' longstanding mission and CPMC's commitment to its continuation. CPMC's support of St. Luke's and the physicians practicing medicine within its walls is an energizing reality that enhances the delivery of quality health care and sustains the unique collegial atmosphere that makes practicing medicine at St. Luke's an exciting and rewarding experience." - Ed Kersh, M.D., St. Luke's Campus

"We are currently practicing 21st century medicine in a 20th century outdated and inadequate facility. Patients lying in hallway beds in our emergency department, inpatients in small cramped double rooms, buildings that could sustain major damage during an earthquake, are some of the reasons all of San Francisco will benefit by allowing us to build a state-of-the-art hospital in our City." - Michael Rokeach, M.D., Pacific Campus

"We need the new hospital to accommodate our evolved style of patient care. For example, we plan to have a labor tub in every delivery room, which provides soothing pain relief to women in labor. We look forward to continuing to provide excellent obstetrical care that is sensitive to the needs and desires of our patient families." – Laura Norrell, M.D., OB/GYN, St. Luke's Campus

Our Staff
Letter of support from staff of St. Luke's women's & children's team

"This neighborhood is a growing and thriving community that needs access to acute medical services in an upgraded facility. The current building has been in existence for 130 years and is in dire need of major equipment upgrades as well as a new structure that will withstand a major earthquake. Many of our patients have been coming to St. Luke's for generations, consider it their hospital, and would not go to any other hospital." – Maioni Alvero-Wilkes, R.N., St. Luke's Campus

“Right now at St. Luke’s, radiology is on the fourth floor and the CT scanner is on the other side of the building. We waste a lot of time moving patients from the ED to radiology or to get a CT scan, or even just to take blood samples to the lab. That’s time we could better spend helping patients.” – Gloria Babiera, R.N., St. Luke’s Campus

“In oncology we sometimes have patients who are newly diagnosed with cancer sharing rooms with patients who are at the end of their fight with the disease and are close to death. They are both in the same room at the same time. It’s not easy for anyone, but it’s particularly hard, emotionally, for the newly diagnosed patient and their family.” – Melba Abel, R.N., Pacific Campus

“In our double rooms you have two patients sharing the same bathroom. When one patient uses the bathroom, the other patient is often reluctant to use it until it’s been cleaned so they have to wait. Being in the hospital is difficult enough without asking people to wait to use the bathroom.” – Nuray Gercek, R.N., Pacific Campus

“We don’t have enough single rooms in our Pediatrics unit which means some children have to stay in the ICU until a bed becomes available. There are no individual bathrooms in the ICU, there is no playroom in the ICU, and there’s no room or space for families to spend the night.” - Marsha Judd, R.N., California Campus

“When you have two patients sharing the room there is no space for an extra bed or cot; sometimes there isn’t even room for a chair to allow a family member to spend the night. It’s hard on the patient and on their families.” - Jeanne Caperton, R.N., Davies Campus

We truly appreciate your time and input toward helping us become a better medical center. We would like to hear about your experience at California Pacific – whether you are a patient, patient’s family or friend, physician, nurse, donor or employee.