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ADVERTISING FEATURE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Transforming Care. N2 Advertising Feature Sunday, May 22, 2016 Creating the ` trauma center of the future' By Carey Sweet As the trauma center for San Francisco and northern San Mateo counties, the new Zuckerberg San Francisco General was designed first and foremost to serve more than 1.5 million residents. Yet as it opens its doors this weekend, it will also be a state-of-the-art home for its staff, embracing the many doctors and nurses on 24-hour duty, as well as first-respond- ers called in during catastro- phes. Critical features include six new trauma resuscitation suites as well as full internal and external decontamination areas for disasters. There are also two new CT scanners in the Emergency Department to facilitate the care of injured patients. Their close proximity allows for the doctors, nurses and staff to provide faster and better care. ™ During the design process we had more than 450 staff involved in user group meet- ings, said the hospital' s Re- build Director Terry Saltz. ™ It' s reflected in every detail, from much more efficient reusable sharps (needles) boxes nurses requested, to breakaway doors PHOTOS BY LAURA MORTON / SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE in front of each patient room Dr. Andre Campbell, Professor of Surgery at UCSF, Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, in to accommodate lots of equip- one of six new trauma rooms. ment being rolled in, to dialy- sis connections in every ICU room so patients don' t have to ª ™ People depend on be moved. us. So we wanted to Perhaps no one is more ready for the new trauma cen- build the trauma ter than 23 year trauma team center of the future, veteran Dr. Andre Campbell, and this is it. Professor of Surgery at UCSF, Trauma Surgery and Acute Dr. Andre Campbell Care Surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. He long. served on the Blue Ribbon ™ We' ve had to stack pa- Committee on San Francisco tients on stretchers in hall- General Hospital' s Future Lo- ways, he said. ™ That was just cation in 2005. Dr. Campbell how it was done. We had to was part of a panel of adminis- move patients to numerous trators, nurses and other rooms over multiple floors for stakeholders which decided each evaluation and treatment. what would go into the new Putting the CT scanners next hospital to replace the original to the trauma rooms in the 1976-built, outdated trauma new hospital allows us to re- Artist Jetro Martinez created ™ Amate San Francisco, a ceramic tile mosaic mural, at the entrance of center he had worked in for so duce the movement of injured the Emergency Department and Trauma Center. Sunday, May 22, 2016 Advertising Feature N3 Nurse station in the Emergency Department and Trauma Center. patients around the hospital. see into many rooms at once. ™ Amate San Francisco is As he walks through the Hallways are wide and inspired by Mexican amate ª "In the midst of working on the Zuckerberg San new center now, he proudly rounded to make navigating (tree bark paper) folk art paint- Francisco General rebuild, I was involved in an shows off the six trauma large equipment easier, with ing, which acknowledges the rooms, including two with no blind spots. Latino heritage of the Mission accident while running to work. Instead of dedicated CT scanners. A And architect David Fong District surrounding the reporting to the office that day, I showed up on patient moves directly from of San Francisco' s Fong & hospital. site at the hospital – not for work but to undergo the ambulance bay, to the Chan Architects is particularly ™ The original design was evaluation room, with scan- proud of a tiny, but important inspired by amate from the treatment. Upon arrival, I felt a sense of calm in ning as needed, and then detail: unobstructed wall- states of Morelos and Guer- spite of the trauma I had undergone – I felt I was directly onto one of 13 oper- mounted handrails leading rero, but the bird, flower and in good hands and the care I received has enabled ating rooms just steps away. from beds into bathrooms, animal motifs are universal The list of high-tech fea- offering safety where patients symbols used by many cul- me to run again. Thanks to Zuckerberg San tures expands to the intensive historically have been most tures, said Martinez. ™ The Francisco General, not only have I recovered, but I care units, each of which is likely to fall. artwork expresses the global have seen a beautiful building evolve from private and outfitted with what With 58 beds, the emer- nature of the hospital' s staff, Campbell calls ™ treasures like gency department more than patients, visitors and city as a drawings to reality." independent computer work- doubles the capacity of the whole. Rachel Peters, Grateful Patient stations (instead of shared old unit. Each room contains units on-wheels that usually double sets of all equipment needed to be tracked down), needed to make private rooms TRAUMA CENTER POINT IN HISTORY medical equipment installed into doubles in case of a on booms from the ceiling large-scale emergency. for every aspect of injury – and self-contained free-rolling ™ People depend on us, 1968 from prevention through reha- beds to allow doctors 360- Campbell said. ™ So we wanted bilitation. degree patient access. Some to build the trauma center of The hospital is the home of units also feature opaque the future, and this is it. The first Level I Emergency several innovative trauma treat- windows between patient But the new emergency and Trauma Center was estab- ment programs, such as the rooms that can be flipped with department and trauma center lished at Zuckerberg San Fran- Traumatic Brain Injury Program a light switch to clear glass so doesn' t only have technical cisco General and remains the and the Wraparound Project, nurses can monitor multiple advances. It also keeps with only Level I trauma center in the which works with survivors of patients at once. the hospital' s theme of in- city and county of San Fran- violence and community-based Nurse stations are curved, terweaving art, with a ceramic cisco. programs to teach young peo- mimicking the curved footprint tile mosaic mural by artist A Level I Trauma Center is ple about violent crime COURTESY ZUCKERBERG SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL of the building so staff can Jetro Martinez at the entrance. capable of providing total care prevention. HISTORICAL ARCHIVES N4 Advertising Feature Sunday, May 22, 2016 PHOTOS BY LAURA MORTON / SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Above: Margy Hutchison, chair of the Leadership Council of the Nurse-Midwives of Zuckerberg San Francisco General, and Maya Vasquez, nurse manager of the Family Birth Center, in a new patient room. Below: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit unit at the hospital' s new Family Birth Center features state-of-the-art equipment. Innovative program puts focus on babies, family By Peggy Spear top-notch maternity care. with a ™ Baby Friendly dis- ™ We pride ourselves on tinction, which honors its com- When a woman is in labor, providing some of the best mitment to both breast-feed- chances are she and her family and most innovative care avail- ing and including all the family are not focusing primarily on able to women, not only in in the birth-bonding process. the soothing colors of the San Francisco but throughout It' s a commitment that maternity ward, the state-of- the country, said Maya Vas- won' t change when the new the-art delivery and post-par- quez, nurse manager of the Family Birth Center opens this tum rooms or even the en- Family Birth Center. weekend, but now, there are chanting mosaic artwork sur- Zuckerberg San Francisco the tools to take it to the next rounding them. General has always provided a level, said Margy Hutchison, But at Zuckerberg San Fran- high-level of maternity care chair of the Leadership Coun- cisco General' s new Family and is recognized by the cil of the Nurse-Midwives of Birth Center, that all becomes World Health Organization as Zuckerberg San Francisco apparent as the family receives the only San Francisco hospital General. Sunday, May 22, 2016 Advertising Feature N5 already been discharged to ª ™ When I see this stay while their baby is in the hospital, I think of the NICU, Vasquez said. Care at the Family Birth word, ` open.' The Center is provided by an in- doors are open; our tegrated team of nurses, doc- arms are open; our tors, midwives and doulas. UCSF doctors bring the medi- minds are open and cal skills necessary to provide our hearts are open state-of- the-art care in the to care for the most case of medical emergencies or high risk births, and the vulnerable who live in presence of midwives – San Francisco. Having members of the longest- this state-of-the-art, standing hospital-based mid- wifery service in San Francisco beautiful hospital not – has led to an environment only will allow us to where all patients, regardless provide cutting edge of who cares for them, are supported during the normal care, but it also processes of childbearing. conveys the respect ™ Every woman deserves the we have for our best care possible, no matter patients and shows her circumstances, Vasquez said. ™ We provide a compre- Above: San Francisco artist Lena Wolff designed mosaic artwork in the Family Birth Center, them that we care hensive team-based approach including ™ Quail and Monkey Branch and ™ Tree of Life.

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