Dear UCSF Community,
The UC Office of the President has issued an order requiring every member of the UC community to receive an influenza vaccine this fall. This means that all UCSF community members, across the campus and UCSF Health, will be required to receive a flu shot this year, whether you are working remotely or on site.
UCSF supports this important action as it will help protect our community and reduce the potential of overwhelming hospitals and health systems with both influenza and COVID-19 cases this fall and winter.
At UCSF, we will be implementing our flu shot campaign starting September 1 to help meet UCOP’s vaccination deadline of November 1. This campaign will include 140 flu clinics across UCSF, as well as 170 flu deputies within our health system to provide free vaccines to their colleagues. In addition, UCSF Health and a number of community partners will be providing flu vaccines to our patients.
In the coming weeks, we will provide additional details on where and how to receive flu shots through UCSF, as well as other information on exemptions. For now, please visit the flu page on the COVID-19 website to learn more.
Getting your flu vaccination this year is particularly important. As the world struggles to manage COVID-19, this year’s flu season has the potential to compound the pressure on hospitals and health systems, and cause unnecessary illness and suffering...
Dear Members of the UCSF Community,
We would like to invite you to join us at a special town hall on Thursday, August 20, from 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., to learn about UCSF’s plans for revitalizing our Parnassus Heights campus. You can register here for the event.
Last October, UCSF unveiled a bold vision, called the Comprehensive Parnassus Heights Plan (CPHP), to re-imagine our oldest and largest campus and build a new hospital with state-of-the-art facilities that will support our incredible research, education, and care delivery mission for decades to come.
At the town hall, Brian Newman, senior associate vice chancellor of UCSF Real Estate and vice president of UCSF Health, and his team will share highlights of the initial-phase projects, including the new hospital, the Research and Academic Building, Aldea housing, and the new campus entry from Irving Street.
As we prepare to seek UC Regental approval in early 2021 to start the next phase of work on the CPHP, we need your help to secure a new future for Parnassus Heights. To rally our UCSF community, Vice Chancellor Francesca Vega will announce the launch of a Community & Government Relations-led advocacy campaign that encourages faculty, staff, and learners to sign up and show support for a renewed Parnassus Heights campus.
We hope you will join us to learn about our collective efforts for transforming our Parnassus Heights campus. Please note that this town hall has been extended a half hour to allow for a...
Dear Members of the UCSF Community,
Yesterday morning, August 11, a homicide occurred during a physical altercation between two individuals in the lobby of the UCSF Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) at 11 Irving Street on the Parnassus campus. The UCSF PD reported that the victim left the building and collapsed on the sidewalk, where a UCSF nurse arriving for work attempted to revive him with CPR. Sadly, the victim was later pronounced deceased at the UCSF Parnassus Emergency Department.
A police bulletin was issued and the suspect, identified from surveillance camera footage at the ACC, has been arrested. The individuals involved in the incident were not employees, learners, or visitors of UCSF.
We recognize how unsettling this news is. In response, the UCSF PD will now station a security guard at the Irving Street entrance of the ACC during the hours that this entry to the campus is open to the public. We have also increased police monitoring of the campus.
After an incident like this, we review our security and policing system to determine what changes can be made to help ensure the safety of our community of faculty, staff, learners, patients, and visitors. We will continue to take steps to strengthen our security procedures, streamline communication between our UCSF PD and Medical Center security, and implement other safety measures, including increased badge readers at access points. This spring, UCSF Health increased control at entrance points to the Moffitt-Long Hospitals at the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at...
Dear UCSF Community,
In a year of extraordinary challenges, the UCSF community has faced the dual public health crises of COVID-19 and racism. With this in mind, we seek your feedback on how UCSF is doing on these important issues as we serve our research, education, care delivery, and public service mission.
We have been engaged in conversations across the campus and health system as we rally around these challenges. To hear from as many of our UCSF community members as possible, we have partnered with Gallup to collect your response on our online engagement platform. The results will help UCSF leadership make informed decisions as we address the unique challenges before us.
We have developed a quick, anonymous, and voluntary survey to gauge your opinions. As you respond, we ask you to consider your experiences in the context of the past three months, when COVID-19 and the recharged conversation on racism have overlapped.
We encourage you to complete the survey today. It should take approximately 10 minutes. The survey will be available at the link below through Wednesday, August 19, 2020. We will share the results in an upcoming Friday Town Hall.
*Please note that your specific comments in response to the three open-ended questions at the end of the survey will be shared exactly as written with UCSF leadership.
TAKE SURVEY
We thank you for taking part in this important survey and for all that you do for our patients and the communities we serve.
Sincerely,
Sam Hawgood, MBBS
Chancellor
Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor
Mark R. Laret
President and Chief...