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12/10/2025

🎊 We're proud to rank among the nation's best hospitals for maternity care, according to U.S. News and World Report!
We received the highest possible rating of “high performing." Thank you to our incredible Birth Center team for all their hard work in supporting our patients!
More about the rankings ➡️ https://ucsfh.org/4a6lfed

12/06/2025

Please congratulate Leslie — she's doing great and living life to the fullest after three open-heart surgeries as a child!
As a newborn in 1990, Leslie went to the doctor with flu-like symptoms. Her pediatrician believed there might be a hole in her heart and sent the family to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where our team diagnosed her with multiple congenital heart defects, including a ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect and a complete atrioventricular canal defect.
She had three heart surgeries with us as a baby, toddler and young child to correct the defects. Since her surgeries, Leslie has been doing great!
“I had such good surgeons,” she says.
Leslie loves hiking, paddle-boarding and enjoying the outdoors with her husband, an aerial firefighter for CAL FIRE. She also serves on the family and family advocacy board of the Adult Congenital Heart Association: “My passion is advocating for people like me.”

11/26/2025

Please send your best wishes to Amanda! She's doing great after brain surgery, radiation and chemo for a glioblastoma brain tumor.
Last year Amanda experienced headaches and problems with her legs while training for an ultra-endurance race. Local doctors in San Luis Obispo suspected a brain tumor and transferred her to UCSF, where our team diagnosed her with a grade 4 glioblastoma, an aggressive, malignant brain tumor.
After brain surgery to remove the growth with Dr. Edward Chang, Amanda underwent physical therapy, rehab, speech therapy, six weeks of radiation and six months of chemotherapy, under the care of neuro-oncologist Dr. Jennie Taylor.
Amanda is now done with treatment and doing great! She returns to UCSF every eight weeks for follow-up scans, which have remained clear. She and her husband recently took their first trip since her diagnosis to Sedona, where Amanda enjoyed hiking and reconnecting with nature. Amanda also completed her first half marathon, a goal she set for herself after watching a video of UCSF nurse practitioner Jonathan Pascual competing in an Ironman triathlon with terminal cancer!

11/20/2025

Edith is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of her double lung transplant —please congratulate her!
In 2015, Edith’s lung collapsed, and doctors diagnosed her with a rare disease that primarily affects women called lymphangioleiomyomatosis. The condition unfortunately causes progressive lung damage.
Edith spent five months in our hospital hooked up to machines and on oxygen waiting for a transplant.
Since her successful transplant, Edith has been living life to the fullest, and she has developed a special bond with her donor’s family.
To celebrate her 10-year transplant-iversary, Edith hosted a pool party with her donor’s family in attendance. She also has continued her yearly tradition of running the Donor Network West 5K with her mom!

11/16/2025

Please congratulate Lee — he's enjoying life with his family after 14 years of treatments for blood cancer!
When doctors diagnosed Lee with an aggressive blood cancer called multiple myeloma, they gave him at most four years to live.
Almost a decade-and-a-half later, he's still here, thanks to a series of medications and treatments at our hospital, including a stem cell transplant and CAR-T gene therapy.
“Every time I relapsed, there would be a new course of therapy, a new drug would be available,” he says. “I feel very lucky. I never thought I’d live to see my kids get married or see my grandchildren."
Now Lee is doing great and loves gardening, hiking and riding his bike. He even rode a stationery bike in his hospital room, while connected to a chemotherapy pole!
Read Lee's story ➡️ https://ucsfh.org/4975zai

11/15/2025

So proud that our Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mount Zion and Stanyan hospitals all earned an “A” rating for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group! That’s the highest safety grade possible! 🎉
More about the ratings ➡️ https://ucsfh.org/47HCrFp

11/13/2025

🐾 Meet Alexis Row, an "ear-resistible" Flemish Giant rabbit! She visited us for the first time and received lots of snuggles and kisses.
Alexis is a 16-week-old baby still, but could grow to 20 pounds/2.5 feet! �Alexis is baby sister to Alex the Great, who used to visit our patients but sadly passed away earlier this year.
Luckily, Alexis’ handlers are preparing her to start visiting UCSF patients next year! 🐇

11/09/2025

Please send Sarah your best wishes — last year she recovered well from surgeries to remove a tumor and her gallbladder and returned to work as a nurse practitioner at our hospital. Unfortunately, our team recently found a new mass, and she's now waiting for results.
In April 2024, Sarah received a steroid injection from a provider in the East Bay for pain in her chest, but her condition didn’t improve.
Sarah's radiology coworkers encouraged her to get a CT scan, which led our team to diagnose her with Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare condition in which a type of white blood cell builds up excessively in the body, often forming masses.
Sarah had surgery to remove a tumor and completed 10 rounds of radiation. During treatment, Sarah became seriously ill, and our doctors discovered she had a stone in her bile duct and needed another surgery to remove her gallbladder.
Since her last surgery in August 2024, Sarah has recovered great, and she was thrilled to run her first 10K with her husband.
We recently found a new mass in her ribs, and Sarah could use your best wishes while she awaits results.

11/06/2025

After years of struggling with essential tremor, Stan got his life back in less than a minute!
Neurosurgeon Dr. Doris Wang used high-intensity focused ultrasound to treat Stan's tremor. Also called HIFU, the incision-less surgical procedure can dramatically improve the debilitating illness in around a minute.
Essential tremor is a neurological condition in which uncontrollable shaking, most often in the hands, head or voice, happens during movement.
It can impair a person’s ability to function normally and also limit their social lives due to self consciousness.
Even simple social events like eating dinner at a restaurant with friends can become unbearable.
Our patient Stan celebrated his successful HIFU procedure by eating a bowl of soup — something he hadn’t been able to do for 10 years!�
“Next thing on my list is a glass of champagne,” he says. 🥂

10/29/2025

👏 A $100 million gift from the Edward Fein Charitable Trust will advance dementia research and care at UCSF! This critical support will help us better understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, improving lives around the world!
More on the gift ➡️ https://ucsfh.org/3WuSnUX

10/28/2025

Our patient Charaighn brought lots of smiles and handmade gifts to staff at our Berkeley Infusion Center! Diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2024, Charaighn taught herself how to crochet as a distraction during chemo. She's now done with chemo and will finish her last monoclonal antibody infusion in January!

10/25/2025

THANK YOU to our wonderful Respiratory Care team! This dedicated group cares for patients with lung and breathing issues every day of the year! 👏

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