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History of UCSF. One of the world’s leading health sciences universities, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), dates its founding to 1864, when South Carolina surgeon Hugh Toland founded a private medical school in San Francisco.
May 23, 2022 · The University of California regents have approved a plan to build a new $4.3 billion hospital at its 115-year-old flagship campus in Parnassus Heights, the San Francisco Chronicle reported....
Under the guidance of the third Chancellor, Philip R. Lee, the institution was renamed to its current form, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a symbol of its coequal status as a UC campus and a research university, while the Medical Center name was kept for its hospital facilities.
The UCSF medical center opened as a hospital in 1907 with 75 beds, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake made it necessary to expand healthcare in the city. In 1949, the UC Hospital was officially renamed "University of California Medical Center." Mount Zion Hospital opened its doors in 1897 merged with UCSF in 1990.
During Lee’s tenure, the UC Regents in 1970 fittingly renamed the institution the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in recognition of its diversity of disciplines. The “medical center” name continued as a reference to patient care services.
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For fiscal year 2022, UCSF was the second highest recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding and awards amongst all U.S. organizations, with $823.7 million in funding across 1,510 awards. The school is affiliated with the UCSF Medical Center.
