Voices of Support
Community Supporters | Our Doctors | Our Staff | Videos
California Pacific Medical Center is an integral part of San Francisco’s health care delivery and overall economy. That’s why these organizations and businesses support our plans to upgrade our health facilities and ensure our ability to continue providing leading-edge, patient-centered care for future generations. Click the logos or names below to read their letters.
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes Association
Bay Area Council
Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services, Inc.
Boys Hope Girls Hope
Buena Vista Neighborhood Association
Instituto Laboral De La Raza
Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 261
Mission Language and Vocational School
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.
The Peter Michael Foundation
Stephen Shortell, Ph.D., MPH, MBA
“[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
Our Doctors and 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
“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“We are currently practicing 21st century medicine in a 20th century outdated and inadequate facility.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
“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.
