USCF San Francisco General Hospital

• Outpatient Services
• Inpatient Services

Located in the city’s multicultural Mission district, SFGH is the City and County hospital for San Francisco. It provides primary health care for many infants, children and adolescents in San Francisco. Caring for mostly the medically underserved, the hospital is also the designated regional trauma center.

SFGH provides culturally competent and sensitive medical services to children, youth and families of San Francisco, especially inner-city, high-risk and socially complex children. 

Physicians

Lela Bachrach, MD, MS

Tonya Chaffee, MD, MPH

Chris Donahue, MD

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH

Anda Kuo, MD

Andi Marmor, MD, MPH

Leslie Pelinka, MD

Ted Ruel, MD

Shannon Thyne, MD

Cam Tu Tran, MD, MS

How To Contact Us

1001 Potrero Avenue, 6th Floor, Room 6M5
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 206-8376

Outpatient Services

The Children’s Health Center at SFGH has over 32,000 visits per year, providing care in:

• Adolescent Medicine
• Behavioral Pediatrics
• Pediatric Allergy/Asthma
• Pediatric Cardiology
• Pediatric Dermatology
• Pediatric Neurology
• Pediatric Psychiatry and
• Pediatric Urology

In addition, other services provided through the Children’s Health Center include:

• Asian Perinatal Advocates for high-risk Asian mono-lingual families
• Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center (BAPAC) for HIV positive pregnant woman and their children
• Kempe Clinic for high-risk vulnerable children and their families
• Foster Care/Child Protective Services
• Child and Adolescent Support Advocacy and Resource Center (CASARC) for children exposed to physical and sexual abuse
• Child and Adolescent Services: comprehensive psychological services for children
• Developmental Follow-up Clinic for high-risk intensive care nursery graduates
• Nutrition Counseling Clinic
• Social services

Inpatient Services

SFGH is the only trauma center for San Francisco County, requiring close collaboration between the inpatient service and the trauma surgery, neurosurgery and orthopedics services in the care of critically injured children. SFGH admits about 700 children per year.