UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS FOUNDATION

Our world-renowned specialists are dedicated to promoting the health of children throughout the Bay Area and around the globe. Through compassionate care and groundbreaking innovations, our pediatric health enterprise—one of the country’s largest and highest-ranking—delivers hope and healing to young people and their families.

Funds raised for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals support a comprehensive approach to pediatric medicine that bridges research and care to serve not only young patients but entire families. This investment helps to ensure that hundreds of specialists are accessible to kids at our two main campuses and via networks serving all of Northern California and beyond. Moreover, by powering our trailblazing research, generations of children receive the promise of a better future.

With two facilities dedicated to developing new treatments and improving health outcomes for kids, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals serve the unique health needs of infants, children, and young adults through two Bay Area facilities—one in San Francisco and one in Oakland. These hospitals build on each other’s historic strengths to operate more efficiently, deliver better outcomes, and serve a much broader region than either hospital could reach on its own.

We provide access to health care to any child who needs it, regardless of their ability to pay, ensuring that one more child will be that much closer to a vaccine or cure.

We unite high-tech with high-touch. At UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, children and their families find compassionate care that is at the forefront of scientific discovery.

We move discoveries from bench to bedside. For decades, our researchers have been discovering solutions for childhood and adolescent health problems, both common and rare.

We train outstanding clinicians and leaders who advance the health of infants, children, and adolescents throughout the world. As teaching hospitals, we nurture tomorrow’s leaders in health care.

We advocate for children. We continually reach out to the legislators, elected officials, community leaders, and politicians who shape the way our children are seen and heard, making sure that every child—regardless of background—has a voice.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are among the nation’s finest pediatric medical centers, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings. Our expertise covers virtually all pediatric conditions, including cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, pulmonology, diabetes and endocrinology, as well as the care of critically ill newborns. We are committed to providing outstanding care to children in the Bay Area, California and beyond. Both campuses are known nationally and internationally for basic and clinical research and are at the forefront of translating research into interventions for treating and preventing diseases. The Oakland campus has a highly regarded pediatric residency program and is one of only five ACS Pediatric level I trauma centers in California. The San Francisco campus is part of UC San Francisco, whose schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing lead the nation in research grants from the National Institutes of Health.

This is a time of technological revolution, unprecedented medical breakthroughs, and extreme global challenges and opportunities. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals stand poised to make advances that will change the course of pediatric medicine as we know it for all kids — across the street and around the globe.

The champions at our hospitals charge hard at the toughest problems facing kids and deliver incredible results, time and again. We’ve pioneered precision cures for deadly cancers, created a low-cost meningitis vaccine that has been given to more than 100 million people, and conducted a first-of-its-kind gene therapy. We established the nation’s largest brain tumor treatment program and the world’s only nonprofit sibling cord blood bank, which offers cures for children with deadly blood diseases. And countless breakthroughs are on the horizon.