UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital – San Francisco

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco is a children's hospital in San Francisco, CA. It holds a rating of 4.50 based on 296 reviews. The hospital is one of two main campuses of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, alongside Oakland, and together they form Northern California's largest network of pediatric providers. The San Francisco and Oakland hospitals are the only hospitals in San Francisco and the East Bay dedicated solely to children. Care is delivered by hundreds of doctors across more than 50 medical specialties, covering cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, traumatic injuries, organ transplants and critically ill newborns.

The hospital's services are built on family-centered care, supporting both young patients and their families. Child Life Services provides certified child life specialists, music therapists, art therapists, educators and parent liaisons who help children prepare for and cope with medical experiences through therapeutic play, age-specific teaching tools and distraction techniques. Activity rooms include playrooms, a digital arts studio and a teen lounge. The hospital offers an accredited school program so patients can keep up with their education during treatment, along with art and music therapy, therapy dogs, a Family Resource Center for parents, and family amenities such as lounges, kitchens, showers and breastfeeding rooms. Specialized programs include support for medically fragile infants, a hemophilia support network, and Hearts at Home for former heart patients.

The hospital's specialty care teams have earned national recognition, and it is ranked best in Northern California in pediatric cancer and urology. It is consistently ranked among the nation's best children's hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, with rankings in all 11 specialties rated. The San Francisco hospital holds an "A" rating for safety from the Leapfrog Group and is recognized for nursing excellence. UCSF affiliated with Children's Hospital Oakland in 2014, bringing together two organizations with more than a century of pediatric care between them.

With hundreds of doctors practicing across more than 50 pediatric specialties, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco brings together specialists who treat only children, from preemies to young adults, in a city where it stands as one of the few hospitals devoted entirely to pediatric care.

Services:

• Child Life Services
• Clinical Trials
• Continuing Medical Education (CME)
• Emergency Department
• Emergency and Urgent Care
• Homeless Services
• Ophthalmology
• Outpatient Clinics