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UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals

With locations in Oakland and San Francisco, we're one of the top children's hospitals in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Our pediatric expertise includes cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, organ transplants and orthopedics.

11/20/2025

🎉 It's official: We cut the ribbon and welcomed patients to the new Family Resource Center at our Oakland hospital!
The beautiful new space is open to families, patients and caregivers and includes complimentary beverages and snacks; dedicated workspaces; relaxation areas with comfort items and massage chairs; and numerous other goodies to help make hospital stays more comfortable for families with sick kids!

11/14/2025

Please congratulate Ezekiel! He rang our end-of-treatment bell after finishing more than three years of leukemia treatment, surrounded by his loving family and care team.
When Ezekiel was just two years old in April 2022, our oncologists diagnosed him with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a fast-growing form of cancer.
Ezekiel turned six in October and is thriving in school. He’s already reading and writing and loves building Legos and eating cake.
This December he’s especially excited to visit Guatemala for the very first time with his family! 🎉

11/07/2025

Twins Zazil and Alaia graduated from their baby helmets — please congratulate them! 🎉 🎓
The twins had deformational plagiocephaly, sometimes called flat head syndrome, a condition that causes an uneven or irregular head shape in babies and can worsen if not treated.
They're among the first group of patients to graduate from our new pediatric orthotics and prosthetics clinic at Parnassus, and both toddlers are thrilled to go helmet-free!

11/04/2025

❤️ Babies in our neonatal intensive care units showed off their "boo-tiful" styles on Halloween! Which costume is your favorite? (We love them all!) 🎃

11/03/2025

🎃 We celebrated Halloween with trick-or-treating in the hospital hallways and costumes and decorations in every unit!
Thank you to our Child Life teams and staff for "creeping" it real with spooky events in San Francisco and Oakland! 👻

10/31/2025

Paige is doing great and recently started college 3+ years after her spine surgery – please congratulate her!
Paige came to our Orthopedic Clinic at age 11 with scoliosis, a side-to-side curvature of the spine, and immediately started wearing a brace to help treat the condition. Unfortunately, her curve continued to worsen, and she had spinal fusion surgery in June 2022 with Dr. Ishaan Swarup.
The recovery process was tough, but Paige’s water polo teammates, friends and neighbors brought her numerous gifts and treats in the hospital to lift her spirts. A little over a year later, she was able to return to the pool and finish her high school career playing the sport she loves! “It’s been life-changing,” Paige’s mom, Kirsten, says of the surgery.
Paige still enjoys swimming and now also does pilates to support her back health. This fall Paige started college at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where she’s majoring in international relations!

10/30/2025

~100 patient families made boo-tiful memories at our Intensive Care Nursery Reunion in San Francisco! 👻🎃
The yearly event helps families reconnect with the medical staff who cared for their babies 24/7 for weeks and sometimes months.
We loved seeing all the creative costumes and smiling faces. It was truly a Halloween-themed celebration to remember!

10/23/2025

The Concert for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals raised $9 million for our hospitals! THANK YOU to Dreamfest and everyone who supported us this year! 🤟
(📸 by Brett Murray, Jeff Yeager and Raymond Ibale)

10/17/2025

Please join us in congratulating Sean! He's doing great and recovering steadily after his fifth open-heart surgery with Dr. V. Mohan Reddy in June.

A lifelong UCSF patient, Sean was born with Shone’s complex, a rare congenital heart condition, and had three life-saving surgeries at our hospital before the age of three. He returned for his fourth surgery in 2016 while still in high school, and this most recent procedure marks another milestone in his journey with us.

Sean's mother, Joanne Hayes-White, was one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department and later became its first woman fire chief, serving 15 years before retiring in 2019.

Today Sean is feeling great; taking walks, staying active and counting down the days until he’s back on the golf course! He returned to work and recently had a blast celebrating weddings with friends and family in Los Angeles and Buffalo!

10/17/2025

Congratulations to our patient, Andrew Santos, recipient of this year’s Colin Powell Medal of Courage! Andrew took the stage at last night’s Concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals to receive his award.
At age 17, Andrew came to our San Francisco hospital by helicopter after suffering an AVM rupture and brain aneurysm. He had brain surgery and spent the next three months at the hospital relearning how to walk and talk.
Each year on his birthday and over the holidays, Andrew (now 25) asks friends and family to contribute to his UCSF game fund instead of giving him personal gifts, so he can donate games like UNO, Connect 4 and Jenga to our hospitalized patients!
Congratulations, Andrew! ❤️

10/10/2025

Thank you, Hyundai Hope On Wheels, for awarding $600,000 in Hyundai Young Investigator Grants to support childhood cancer research at our hospitals!
Award recipients Dr. Benjamin Lerman and Dr. Ruyan Rahnama celebrated this important donation with our patients! Their research will help advance new treatments for pediatric cancers.

10/08/2025

We're giving away two pairs of tickets to the Dreamforce Concert for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 15!
To enter, share a photo or a memory from our San Francisco or Oakland hospitals in the comments before 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 10. We'll pick two random winners from the comments!
More about the concert ➡️ https://ucsfh.org/3KFqPto

(Please only one entry per person and anyone entering must be 21+. Only respond to messages from our verified account. Spammers like to message people on Facebook!)

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