Uncertain Future: SF’s Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
By LAURA WENUS A police cruiser sat in the center divider on Valencia Thursday morning, observing but not interfering with protesters displaying images of fetuses and called out to clients entering and...
View ArticleHolding On to Art and Hope As Time Runs Out
“Give me a blessing, I need it,” artist René Yañez called out in Spanish to his friend who had arrived at Alley Cat Bookstore and Gallery on Sunday. The man was there to do just that – to give a...
View ArticleSF’s income disparity displayed in a smile of bad teeth
By Laura Wenus Tooth decay paints a bleak picture of the Mission’s growing inequality. Even as incomes rise, the kindergartners at Mission Education Center claim the dubious distinction of having the...
View ArticleAs families disappear, SF Mission health center consolidates
By Aria Killough-Miller The Mission Neighborhood Health Center, the largest health clinic in the neighborhood, will close its location at Valencia Street and consolidate the services offered there to...
View ArticleHealth clinics trending on SF’s Valencia Street
By Brian Rinker Nestled among the furniture stores, boutiques and restaurants on Valencia Street, One Medical, a concierge medical practice – one of three new clinics on Valencia Street – blended in...
View ArticleHospital staff protest Trump promises of Affordable Care Act repeal
By Laura Wenus, Yannie Zhang, and Wendy Ye Workers at San Francisco General Hospital protested the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act in front of their workplace Friday, saying rolling back...
View ArticleThreatened with closure, UCSF youth health center finds new home
By Laura Waxmann Imperiled by a loss of funding and an expiring lease, a year of uncertainty about the future of the New Generation Health Center ended this week with relatively good news for its staff...
View ArticleLocal health providers would face funding gap under proposed healthcare bill
By Laura Wenus If the U.S. Senate agrees with Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, San Francisco health care providers said their current practice of serving everyone would become...
View ArticleCommunity united against removal of care units from St. Luke’s Hospital
By Christina Egerstrom Appalling, outrageous, inhumane, unacceptable, heartbreaking, tragic were all words that doctors, nurses and families of patients used on Wednesday to describe the closing of the...
View ArticleSub-acute patients at St. Luke’s find no place to go
By Laura Wenus Halfway to the closure date of the sub-acute unit at St. Luke’s hospital, many of its patients still don’t know where they’ll be going. Families told representatives from California...
View ArticleSub-Acute patients can stay in San Francisco, administrators say
By Laura Wenus In a sharp turnaround, California Pacific Medical Center will keep 28 patients currently at St. Luke’s Hospital who had been told earlier that they would have to leave the hospital by...
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