Wish List of 2011 Annual Priorities
WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SERVICES
1. African American Breast Health and Sister-to-Sister Programs
With your help, free clinical breast exams, annual mammograms and
follow-up services will be provided to at-risk populations and those
genetically-predisposed for cancer.
2. Bayview Child Health Center
Help ensure that medical care is provided to every child at Bayview
Child Health Center in the underserved Bayview Hunters Point community.
3. Child Life Program for Pediatric Specialty Center
Help fund an additional Child Life Specialist who is extensively trained
to help children cope with the emotional and sometimes terrifying
medical experience.
4. Infant Warmers and Birthing Beds for Labor and Delivery
Help purchase ergonomically designed beds that will make a woman’s labor
and delivery experience more comfortable and safe and technologically
advanced bed warmers that will cradle newborns in warmth while being
examined and monitored.
5. Kalmanovitz Child Development Center
Many of the children seen at the Center come from families who without
your support could not otherwise afford care, and have survived drugs in
the womb, were born prematurely, or have learning disabilities, autism,
or eating disorders.
6. Neonatal Transport Gurney (with Incubator)
Your gift will help purchase the most advanced transport incubator
available for transferring critically-ill infants smoothly and safely.
7. Pediatric Transport Gurney
Help purchase an ergonomic pediatric gurney with superior features such
as a streamlined design and hydraulic lift capabilities that promote a
quick, smooth, and safe journey.
8. Women’s Health Resource Center
Ten thousand women visit the Center annually for information, classes
and support groups. Your gift will help fund the continuation of these
services for every woman, regardless of her ability to pay.
OTHER MEDICAL CENTER AREAS
9. Brain Lab Cranial Navigation System
This is a GPS system for the brain, guiding surgeons in locating and
treating abnormalities. You can help fund such a system for the new
Neuroscience Institute at CPMC’s Davies Campus.
10. Cardiac Cryo Ablation Equipment
Currently, when CPMC patients need cardiac cryo-ablation, they are
transferred to an outside medical facility. Help CPMC broaden its
capability to serve cardiac patients so this procedure can be performed
in-house.
11. Cardiac 3D Mapping System
Help ensure that our world-class electrophysiologists are equipped with
the best technology available and that our cardiac patients needing
ablation to treat arrhythmias will receive the safest and most effective
care.
12. Coming Home Hospice
This is San Francisco’s only licensed residential hospice facility for
end of life diseases. Insurers only cover about half the annual budget;
the rest depends on people like you, who recognize the value of life’s
most precious moments.
13. Hepatitis B Free Screening Project
In collaboration with the SF Department of Public Health, CPMC initiated
the Hepatitis B Free Screening Project for high-risk groups and has
screened 3,120 people in two years. Your gift will help us screen
another 3,000 individuals over the next two years.
14. Institute for Health & Healing (IHH)
One of the largest integrative medical centers in the country, the IHH
is globally respected and widely copied. Your gift will support this
Institute’s invaluable work, where the science and spirit of medicine
come together to heal the whole person.
15. Paul May and Frank Stein Interventional Endoscopy Center Expansion
Your gift will go towards funding expansion that will benefit patients who urgently need
diagnosis and treatment for gastrointestinal and biliopancreatic tract problems.
16. Radiation Oncology 4D CT Simulator
In radiation therapy, a CT Simulator sets the unique measurements
necessary to treat individual patients. Your gift will replace CPMC’s
existing simulator, near the end of its lifespan, with an upgrade that
will provide more detailed images, less time on the table for the
patient as well as the ability to accommodate people of all sizes.
