Posts Tagged ‘hospital’
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Hey look, Kaiser Permanente is coming to Potrero Hill.
But some people are highly upset:
Selfish,*
YEP. Pretty much.
Petty-Bourgeois,
YEP
White,
YEP. I’d be surprised if they weren’t.
Property-Owning,
YEP. Obsessed with real estate they are, my precious.
NIMBY
YEP. “Oh yes, Kommandant we totally support your mission of expanding your concentration and extermination camps, but couldn’t you select a more “appropriate” site, perhaps in East Auschwitz, or maybe even Auschwitz Annex? As the saying goes, property values uber alles.”
Millionaires
YEP. “Well, I’M not a millionaire, ” they lie.
Sorry, little nursey, your kind just isn’t welcome on “The Hill.”
Via stepsaheadlearners
And hey, where’s our helipad, you know, that other thing what was supposed to have “destroyed” property values in PH.
Let’s bring the pain, bring the sanctimony, let’s write canned letters to all these people, why not:
The CEO and Board of Directors of Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente (George C. Halvorson)
LNK Partners (Phil Marineau)
Kaiser Permanente (Christine Robisch)
Kaiser Permanente (Robert Pearl)
Kaiser Permanente (Gregory A. Adams)
Kaiser Permanente (Bernard J. Tyson)
Kaiser Permanente (Randy Wittorp)
Kaiser Permanente (Jay Murphy)
Kaiser Permanente (Cameron White)
SF Planning Department (Wade Wietgrefe)
SF Planning Department (Susan Mickelsen)
SF Planning Department (John Rahaim)
Malia Cohen
Megan Hamilton
Andrea Bruss
Kaiser Permanente Board Member (J. Eugene Grigsby)
Kaiser Permanente Board Member (Edward Pei)
SF Planning Department (Sarah Jones)
SF Planning Department (Ben Fu)
*I’m srsly. Do these people sincerely care about “historic” corrugated steel buildings? No, not at all. So how stupid do they think we are?
Tags: 2012, bay area, Ben Fu, Bernard J. Tyson, Board of Directors, board of supervisors, california, Cameron White, CEO, Christine Robisch, doctors, Edward Pei, George C. Halvorson, George Halvorson, Gregory A. Adams, helipad, hill, hospital, J. Eugene Grigsby, Jay Murphy, John Rahaim, LNK Partners, Malia Cohen, medical, Megan Hamilton Andrea Bruss, millionaires, nimby, nurse, Owning, Petty-Bourgeois, Phil Marineau, plann ing commission, Planning, potrero, potrero hill, property, Randy Wittorp, Robert Pearl, San Francisco, Sarah Jones, save, save the hill, Selfish, Supervisor, Susan Mickelsen, Wade Wietgrefe, white
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Sometimes, I just don’t know:
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At least the ER was close by…
Tags: 2012, accident, bay area, california, car, er, geary, hospital, Kaiser, San Francisco, SFPD
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Friday, September 7th, 2012
Don’t know why.
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You know, San Francisco is the most corrupt large city west of Chicago, probably, but you wouldn’t know it by solely looking at paramedic response in the 415. I’ve never seen dysfunction from this part of the “City Family.”
When you’re in trouble, the SFFD will care about you…
Tags: $10, 2012, accident, am, battery, bay area, broken, cable, calfiornia, california, car, department, dept., fire, glesses, hospital, hurt, morning, paramedic, paramedics, response, San Francisco, september 6, September 6th, sffd, SFPD, street, TRACKS, trolley, wOMAN
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Monday, August 6th, 2012
Here’s your accident scene* on Market betwixt Battery and Sansome on August 3rd, 2012…
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…and here’s the streetcar driver, sitting inside of his streetcar, old 1811, pondering developments:
Wow.
Just because the SFMTA MUNI DPT is corrupt and evil and the worst large public transit agency in America and it has spokespeople who are famous for lying all the time, just because of that, doesn’t mean that the average SFMTA MUNI DPT is a bad person or anything…
*Maybe there’s some blame to go around here, having to do with maintenance or procedures or maybe the Mom-ish Subaru driver went on the wrong side of Market for a while only to suddenly pull in front of the streetcar and slam on the brakes – these things are possibilities, I suppose. But, man, things don’t look good for this operator.
Tags: +3, 1811, 2012, accident, august, battery, bay area, bus, california, child, cruashed, DPT, driver, F, f market, historic, hospital, injuries, injury, Line, market, Muni, oinbound, orange, San Francisco, sansome, SFMTA, station wagon, street, streetcar, subaru, transit, white
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Am I missing something?
Does this look like a cell phone to you?
Zoomed in:
It doesn’t to me.
Taurus:
All the deets, as of last year…
Tags: 2011, 2012, attempted, bay area, Bayview, california, cell, conference, cops, dead, death, department, dept., evasion, fare, gun, handgun, hospital, hunters point, jail, July 16, july 16th, Kenneth Harding, lower, march, muini, Muni, murder, news, oakdale, parole, parolee, phone, police, protest, San Francisco, SFMTA, SFPD, shooting, silver, state, street, streetcar, t, t third, third, transit, Video, Washington, youtube
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Oh wow, man. Former Presidio Landmark Apartments doorman Tony Robles tells his tale in Poor Magazine (aka Prensa Pobre).
Alls I can say is that it’s an interesting mix of fact and opinion. One of the first grafs is below and the whole thing is in the link above.
Anyway, I guess a lot more people are living there these days – here’s what’s on Yelp about this building.
And here’s the place itself, way on the right, from the deck of one of those nearby multi-floor townhomes:
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Here it is:
“The edifice I refer to is the Presidio Landmark Apartments, located in the city’s Presidio on Wedemeyer St. near 14th Ave. I was working at this insular, hermetically sealed, self-aggrandizing, pseudo palace—home to CEO’s and hedge funders—in the capacity of door attendant. My brown face was the first you’d see when walking through the French doors. There I would sit, donning a somewhat comical habiliment of tan dockers, innocuous (save for the itching) cotton candy blue shirt, bottomed off with clunky Timberland shoes. The Presidio Landmark—an ideal locale for one of those obnoxious Lexus Christmas commercials—home to some of the city’s highest rents–nearly $3000 a month for a “junior” one bedroom, $3200-3800 for a one-bedroom, upwards of $4000-5000 for a 2 bedroom, and $7000+ for a multi-floor townhome located in the periphery. The building casts an ominous presence when approached. It is situated on a grassy slope, adorned with foliage including succulents, native plants, African varieties—underneath canopy-like palm trees, impassive and pale, stripped of their natural skin. One gets the impression when approaching this fortress-like structure that something is terribly wrong. This home of the upwardly mobile, the hedge funders, gentrifiers of neighborhoods—this colonized place sits on the ancestral home of Native people. It is the structure that was once known as the Merchant Marine and Public Health Service Hospitals. It was a place that provided free care to native people, including native Hawaiians, people with leprosy, merchant marines and people who didn’t have access to decent healthcare. It is part of the 42 acre Public Health Service District. It is the place that was abandoned in the mid 80’s when it was decommissioned by the Reagan administration. It is a place whose cries can be heard, a place where ancestral spirits cry out for justice against land grabbing developers like Forest City, who, with the Presidio Trust, took the sacred Ohlone land to satisfy its voracious corporate hunger. The Presidio Landmark: home to the 1%.”
But what’s this, here’s an ad for just $2150, so maybe they’ve lowered their asking prices lately:
*Junior One Bedroom, One Bathroom available for move in 2/8/2012
*Brand New Luxury Apartment Home
*Presidio National Park address
*Beautiful finishes including hardwood floors, granite countertops and stainless steel energy efficient appliances
*Bosch full-size, in-suite washer and dryer
Presidio Landmark Features:
LEED Gold Certification
24-hour Door Attendant
Concierge Services
On-site Maintenance Team
Massage Room and Spa Services
Private Dining Room with Wine Cellar
Jacuzzi Hot Tub
Fitness Center/Yoga Room
Beautiful Interior Gardens with Fire Pit and breathtaking views
Parking available at $150/month
Live in luxury at the Presidio Landmark where there is plenty of room to stretch out and enjoy the great outdoors; you will have immediate access to the Marina, Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights. Nowhere else in San Francisco will you find an historic building that has been sustainably renovated with modern comforts and conveniences built right in. Host a private dinner party in our Dining Room or catch the MUNI to the Financial District for a night out.
And there you have it.
Tags: 1, 14th, 15th, apartments, Article, avenues, bay area, california, district, fired, hospital, lake, landmark, per month, PHSH, poor magazine, presidio, presidio landmark, Presidio Landmark Apartments, public, Public Health Service Hospital, rent, richmond, San Francisco, service, u. s., yelp
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
The Future is coming to Mission Bay and this is what it will look like. Get all the deets below.
Hurray!
- Private room. Nearly all patient rooms will be private, with the exception of intensive care nurseries designed for multiple births.
- Spacious bathroom with double doors. Every UCSF patient room will have its own large bathroom with a wide entry door.
- Adaptable head wall. Patient rooms will include an optimized boom mount on the ceiling that will increase room flexibility and open up more floor space.
- Hand-sanitizer pump. Hand-washing sinks will be located upon the entrance to each room.
- Sound-absorbing ceiling tiles. The accessible ceiling tiles in each room are designed to absorb sound and can be cleaned easily.
- Soothing music. Patients will be able to personalize their music selections; music will not be piped in.
- A view of nature. Rooms will offer a range of views, from gardens to the San Francisco Bay to the ballpark.
- Light-filled window. Every room will include a huge window.
- Carpeting. Rubber floors will promote infection control, reduce noise and offer increased comfort for patients and staff.
(Source: Mary Phillips, project manager for interior design for Mission Bay Hospitals Project)
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“Patient rooms in the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, including this acute care patient room at the future women’s specialty hospital, are designed to maximize comfort, efficiency and safety.
The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay is planned as a shining example of evidence-based hospital design, an increasingly prevalent trend built on research suggesting that design can improve health outcomes by increasing safety and reducing stress among patients, their families and hospital staff.
Evidence-based design concepts recently reached a huge new audience when O, The Oprah Magazine ran an article in its September issue highlighting the “Fable Hospital 2.0,” a conceptual patient room designed by a team of researchers, architects and health care experts as an ideal facility.
Features of UCSF’s 289-bed Mission Bay hospital complex — including private rooms and bathrooms for nearly all patients; individualized lighting, temperature and music controls; and large windows offering views of serene outdoor spaces — match up almost exactly with those of the Fable Hospital. The most notable exception is UCSF’s decision not to use carpeting in patient rooms, a feature of the Fable room that was deemed an infection risk. Instead, UCSF’s floors will be made of rubber, which absorbs noise and can be cleaned using fewer chemicals than vinyl flooring.
Such decisions about the new women’s, children’s and cancer hospitals slated to open in early 2015 are the result of an extensive, highly collaborative process that engaged leading architects teams of university staff and caregivers, and patients and their families.
“Overall, the facilities will be spectacular, contemporary, appealing and sophisticated,” said Cindy Lima, executive director of the Mission Bay Hospitals Project. “Patients, families and staff alike will benefit from a beautiful and soothing environment that I hope will feel more like a sun-drenched retreat than a hospital.”
Lima was quick to point out that “while stunning, the design is simple and the buildings are highly efficient.”
“We didn’t want people to end up feeling we’d been lavish and irresponsible with resources,” echoed Dr. Elena Gates, chief of the UCSF Division of General Gynecology, who has been involved in the planning process since the beginning. “It’s amazing what one can do while also being quite reasonable.”
More deets after the jump
(more…)
Tags: 2.0, 2011, bay area, california, cancer, carpet, carpeting, center, childrens, Cindy Lima, dr., Dr. Elena Gates, Elena Gates, Executive Director, Fable, Fable Hospital 2.0, families, General Gynecology, hospital, magazine, medical, mission bay, Mission Bay Hospitals Project, o, oprah, Oprah Magazine, patient, private rooms, rooms, San Francisco, ucsf, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, university of california, Women, women's
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Get all the deets on this special day at UCSF below.
The red carpet up at 505 Parnassus:
Just after the unveiling:
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“Members of the UCSF community are invited to celebrate the second annual Art Day at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, Nov. 16, featuring a red carpet fashion show with hospital gowns completely redesigned by young hospital patients.
All of the creations are designed by the kids, and will be modeled by a mix of staff and patients. Other activities include a photo booth, where patients can insert themselves into famous works of art, and professional artists who will share their artistic processes.
“Re-designing the hospital gowns gives these kids an opportunity to share their feelings about what the hospital gowns mean to them and what they signify,” said UCSF Child Life Services Manager Michael Towne. “The kids are allowed to feel and actively express the way they want to.”
The art therapy program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital provides a creative way for children and their families to communicate and better cope with their hospital experience. Art therapy encourages patient engagement, expression and an increased understanding of the emotional impact of illness and medical treatment.
The Child Life Department recognizes the integral role hospital child life programs play in the healing process and works with children, teens and their families to ensure that each child’s developmental and emotional needs are met.
“Patients need a forum to express what it means to have cancer, or cystic fibrosis or to have experienced a major trauma,” said Towne. “The whole issue of illness has a profound impact on a person’s identity, and awareness of mortality. And sometimes, all the words in the world aren’t going to capture what’s going on.”
Fashion Show
WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 2 to 4 p.m.
WHERE: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, 505 Parnassus Ave., Sixth Floor Courtyard”
Tags: 2011, 505, annual, art, Art Day, art therapy, artists, bay area, Benioff, california, Child Life, Child Life Department, Child Life Services Manager, children, childrens, department, district, doctors, fashion, gowns, hospital, inner, kids, Michael Towne., nurses, parnassus, patients, red carpet, salesforce, San Francisco, second, show, Staff, street, sunset, therapy, ucsf, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
Right here.
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, City, Committed, hospital, map, San Francisco, UC, ucsf, UCSF: Committed to the City, university of california
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
[UPDATE: So is Zendesk the only San Francisco company that hasn't threatened to move out of San Francisco lately? Apparently, see the Comments. BTW, did you know that:
"[a]ny tweets that mention Zendesk are immediately turned into what we like to call a “twicket,” that is, a tweet that is converted into a support ticket.“
Well, that’s news to me.
Oh, and here’s your chance to get in on the land rush:
“Central Market Street and Tenderloin Area Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion is now publicly available and can be found on the Office of Economic and Workforce Development website, www.oewd.org, as well as on the new Central Market Partnership website, www.centralmarketpartnership.org. Applications are being accepted now, and the deadline to apply for the 2011 tax year is November 1, 2011. Please contact the Office of Economic and Workforce Development at 415-554-6969 with any questions regarding the application for the Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion.”]
I don’t really get this one here. Zendesk needed corporate welfare to move into the Mid-Market and it wasn’t going to do so anyway, do I have that right?
Leave us review. Former Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a payroll tax into law back in 2004. But a half-decade later, Twitter decided that it didn’t like Gavin Newsom’s tax, so an exemption was made for Twitter, and others so bold as to set up shop in an area that was mapped out by real estate interests and others, only Gaia knows.
Now we hear that ZenDesk agreed to expand in Mid Market thanks to the recent Twitter Tax waiver?
Is that the narrative?
A tourist takes it easy after an eventful day in the Mid Market a couple months back. I forget how many people got shot all told:
Via Bluoz – click to expand
So here’s the latest:
“We <3 SF. To prove our commitment to this rad city we’ve pledged $1M to @UCSF @Benioff Children’s Hospital: http://prn.to/pzzYwt“
Now, is it possible that ZenDesk didn’t need that subsidy to move into the Twitterloin? Sure seems that way. Mmmm…
And let me assure you that nothing has substantively changed betwixt Dot Com Era I of the late 90′s and our current Dot Com Era II as far as stock options are concerned. Obviously, a San Francisco company going public might not want to deal with the 2004 tax signed into law by Gavin Newsom. Obviously. So what’s changed the past seven years?
Here’s “interim” Mayor Ed Lee from this year:
“We’re not about punishing any companies that need to grow and grow fast,” said Mayor Lee.
So why did Gavin Newsom sign his tax into law back in aught-four? Did he do it to “punish companies?” Did he do it to “kill jobs?” Was Gavin Newsom a “job killer?”
Apparently.
Hey, how about this? Why not treat all companies the same? Why not get rid subsidies for biotech? Why not address concerns about Mid Market without corporate welfare?
“SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31, 2011 — Zendesk, the leading provider of proven, cloud-based help desk software, today announced a $1 million pledge to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
“Zendesk was founded in Denmark and moved to San Francisco in 2009,” said Mikkel Svane, Zendesk’s CEO. “We have been humbled by the wonderful way we have been welcomed to this city and its vital high-tech community. As Zendesk continues its rapid growth, we want to share our good fortune with the city and people that helped make it possible. As a father and client of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, this charity is especially meaningful to me.”
Zendesk is kicking off this year-long effort with a sponsorship of the Salesforce Foundation’s Concert to Benefit the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital to be held on Thursday, September 1, 2011. Zendesk will host its customers, partners and employees to attend this charity event. Throughout the next year, Zendesk will donate a portion of its sales, as well as hold other fund-raising events, to deliver on its $1 million pledge. In addition, its employees will participate in volunteer programs for the hospital.
“The Salesforce Foundation has been an inspiration to us on how to integrate philanthropy into a company’s culture,” Svane added. “Today’s announcement is just the first of many demonstrating Zendesk’s gratitude to the city of San Francisco. Having just moved into new headquarters in the Central Market, we also look forward to making our new neighborhood a better place to work.”
“It’s great to see Zendesk, one of San Francisco’s rapidly growing tech companies, already giving back to the citizens of San Francisco,” said Mayor Edwin M. Lee. “We are grateful to them for their generous pledge to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.”
About Zendesk
Zendesk is the leading provider of proven, cloud-based help desk software. For growing organizations, Zendesk is the fastest way to enable great customer service. More than 10,000 Zendesk customers, including Adobe, MSNBC, Sony, OpenTable and Groupon, trust Zendesk with their most valuable assets, their customers, partners, and employees. Founded in 2007, Zendesk is funded by Charles River Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.”
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