Mount Zion History

1987 - 1997

• Medically-oriented, senior day health center opens, developed by Lawrence Z. Feigenbaum, M.D., Director of Ambulatory Services, 1975
• Mount Zion receives nationwide requests for animated life-saving CPR card, developed by Herman Uhley, M.D., and Louise Horne, medical artist, November 1977
• Kaiser Family Foundation awards Mount Zion a grant for a geriatric fellowship program, the first of its kind on the West coast to give special training to physicians interested in geriatric medicine, 1978
• Mount Zion acquires and develops Maimonedes (Unity) Hospital; now called the Pavilion, houses all of OB/GYN, perinatal center, and all of psychiatry
• New Perinatal Center opens in the Pavilion, offers complete obstetrical and pediatric services to mothers and infants, January 1980
• First floor of the Harold Brunn Institute converted to a new cell biology research laboratory, directed by Ira Goldfine, M.D., fall 1979
• HealthWorks for Women, the first hospital-based comprehensive women's health center in San Francisco, opens at Mount Zion, 1986

 

 

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