Benioff Children's Hospital Debuts 6 Story Center

OAKLAND, CA — UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is celebrating a major milestone today by having a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new six-story outpatient center.

Hospital officials said the newly constructed, state-of-the-art building is bringing an additional 89,000 square feet of exam rooms, treatment facilities and family support services to the hospital's existing outpatient center.

They said the outpatient center also will house advanced technologies and clinical space for specialties such as orthopedics, physical rehabilitation, ear, nose and throat, head and neck surgery, pulmonology, dermatology, cardiology, outpatient surgery, neurology and neurosurgery.

Children's Hospital officials said the completion of the expanded outpatient center is the first major milestone in the hospital's master plan project, which aims to modernize the campus with new and improved technology
and meet the state's updated seismic safety standards by 2020.

They said that by constructing new facilities and modernizing existing ones, the hospital will continue to provide highly specialized health care to all children in the region and beyond, regardless of a family's ability to pay.

Among the people expected to speak at today's ceremony were Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital president Dr. Michael Anderson, UCSF chancellor Dr. Sam Hawgood and Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb.

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