Dear Members of the UCSF Community:
Yesterday, UCSF was challenged once again with a labor action. The disruptions caused by these strikes, no matter the duration, are significant and affect the entire UCSF community – faculty, staff, trainees, students, visitors, and especially our patients.
At UCSF Health, no new patient appointments were added for our ambulatory clinics, while more than 800 appointments, including cancer infusion treatments, were rescheduled. Selected surgeries also were rescheduled. For those patients who remained in our hospitals or received outpatient services, it was disconcerting to receive care in an environment like the one we experienced yesterday.
The strike ended early this morning, and we send our thanks to each of you who came to work, as well as to every person who planned and helped UCSF through this trying time. We also express our appreciation to the volunteers and replacement workers who enabled UCSF to continue providing services across the campus and UCSF Health.
No matter your individual opinion about strikes, everyone in the UCSF family is bonded together by our PRIDE Values: professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence and our shared mission of advancing health worldwide. We are grateful for the professionalism that was displayed throughout this period, including by those in our UCSF family who chose to participate in the strike.
As we come together today and beyond in fulfillment of UCSF's mission, we ask that everyone recommit to these values. At UCSF, there will always be far more that unites us than can ever divide us.
Along with the leaders at the other UC campuses and the UC Office of the...
Dear Members of the UCSF Community,
Once again, we are stunned and saddened by the loss of life and injuries resulting from a targeted act of hatred and gun violence. Late last night, the world learned that 49 people had been confirmed dead and many seriously injured due to a terror attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday prayers.
Today, we stand in solidarity and sympathy with the Muslim community, here and elsewhere, and strongly condemn this senseless act of hatred and violence. Every act of hatred is a threat to each one of us and to our communities.
Here at UCSF, religious freedom is inherent in our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We also recognize that Muslims in our community, as well as others, may feel a renewed sense of fear and vulnerability in the wake of this hateful attack.
UCSF Health Spiritual Care Services invites the UCSF community to a time of remembrance and to offer care and support to one another on Monday, March 18, 12:30-1:00 p.m.
- Parnassus Campus: Ground Floor Meditation Room, next to the Information Desk in the Moffitt-Long Hospital lobby
- Mission Bay Campus: Ground Floor Meditation Room, Children’s Hospital (C1401)
In addition, professional counseling and confidential services are available to members of our UCSF community who are experiencing distress: