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Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

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Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (hospital, run by the Public Health): $237.9M paid to contractors for work here, $3.2B budgeted for its department in FY2025, 8,904 employees on the payroll, 23 contracts, 28 capital projects, 8 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. Zuckerberg San Francisco General is the city's trauma centre and its safety-net hospital, and a great deal of public money is traceable to it by name: $237.9 million paid to vendors on contracts that name the hospital, alongside $130.9 million of voter-bond money expended on Building 5. The contracts show what running a hospital costs beside the rebuilding — $32.3 million paid to Clark Construction for chillers and cooling towers, $11.2 million for security guards, $4.1 million for hospital beds, $2.6 million to rent a chiller, $1.9 million for laboratory testing, $2.7 million for office supplies. The documents put that spending in context. A Controller's performance and efficiency review found the hospital at or near the top of a benchmark range for clinical quality in heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and the prevention of surgical infection, judged it productive and financially well run against comparable hospitals, and recorded an occupancy rate of 97 percent. A 1994 study of programmes affecting homeless people costed its treatment of patients who gave no address and had no third-party payer at $9,111,149 in a single year, most of it state money. And its institutional master plans track what it kept asking for: a medical helipad, which the Health Commission requested a feasibility study for after the 2001 trauma care plan exposed the city's geographic isolation; new emergency generator capacity; and a new acute care hospital. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.

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Grounded summary

Zuckerberg San Francisco General is the city's trauma centre and its safety-net hospital, and a great deal of public money is traceable to it by name: $237.9 million paid to vendors on contracts that name the hospital, alongside $130.9 million of voter-bond money expended on Building 5. The contracts show what running a hospital costs beside the rebuilding — $32.3 million paid to Clark Construction for chillers and cooling towers, $11.2 million for security guards, $4.1 million for hospital beds, $2.6 million to rent a chiller, $1.9 million for laboratory testing, $2.7 million for office supplies. The documents put that spending in context. A Controller's performance and efficiency review found the hospital at or near the top of a benchmark range for clinical quality in heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and the prevention of surgical infection, judged it productive and financially well run against comparable hospitals, and recorded an occupancy rate of 97 percent. A 1994 study of programmes affecting homeless people costed its treatment of patients who gave no address and had no third-party payer at $9,111,149 in a single year, most of it state money. And its institutional master plans track what it kept asking for: a medical helipad, which the Health Commission requested a feasibility study for after the 2001 trauma care plan exposed the city's geographic isolation; new emergency generator capacity; and a new acute care hospital.

Built from: 8 archive documents, 23 contracts, city budget data — no outside knowledge added.
$237.9M
paid to contractors for work here

1001 Potrero Ave · City-owned · 15 buildings · parcel 4154001 · District 10 · City Facilities registry

What public money did here

Two separate city ledgers name this place — voter bonds and city contracts. Each is counted on its own below and they are never added together: the same job can appear in both, because a bond pays the contract that does the work.

Paid to contractors for work here$237.9M
Charles Pankow Builders LtdFY2021–2027 · 2 contracts$93.1MClark Construction Group - Calif LpFY2025–2026$23.9M
Build Group Inc.FY2021–2024$13.6M
Klw Construction IncFY2021–2026 · 3 contracts$13.2M
+ 4 more contractors
Siemens Financial Services IncFY2018$12.7M
Allied Universal Security ServicesFY2023$11.5M
Arup Laboratories IncFY2021$10.9M
Emerald Textile Services Norcal LlcFY2024$7.7M

What the City actually paid, across 56 contractors (the 48 smallest are in the total but not listed). Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.

The contracts that name this place23
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Chillers & Cooling TowersCLARK CONSTRUCTION GROUP - CALIF LP · DPW$32.3MTC86240 Security Guard San Francisco General HospitalALLIED UNIVERSAL SECURITY SERVICES · ADM$11.2MSan Francisco General Hospital Hospital BedsMED ONE CAPITAL FUNDING LLC · DPH$4.1MConsumable Office Supply ZSFGHODP Business Solutions, LLC · DPH$2.7M
+ 19 more contracts
Chiller Rental ZSFGHCARRIER CORP · DPH$2.6MLab Testing for ZSFGH ClinicaARUP LABORATORIES INC · DPH$1.9MZuckerberg San Francisco General Building 5 Relo P1 5C 5EKLW CONSTRUCTION INC · DPW$1.4MIncident Software Zuckerberg San Francisco GeneralRLDatix North America Inc. · DPH$1.1MZuckerberg San Francisco General Reagent RentalCEPHEID · DPH$955,552Lease Agreement @ ZSFGHKONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTNS USA INC · DPH$917,926Zuckerberg San Francisco General MM: Freight ServicesTRIOSE INC · DPH$913,846Zsfgh-Secure Sharps Waste ManagementDANIELS SHARPSMART INC · DPH$859,761Zuckerberg San Francisco General BLD 5 BHS Early DemolitionCHARLES PANKOW BUILDERS LTD · DPW$682,886Zuckerberg San Francisco General ChlrBoilClr Rplmt ProjectLDA KMD ARCHITECTS JV · DPW$680,314Nurse Call Zuckerberg San Francisco GeneralCOMTEL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC · DPH$366,069Main Agreement @ ZSFGHKONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTNS USA INC · DPH$183,143TC60553 San Francisco General Hospital Optician ServicesJACK H SINOW · ADM$93,033Maternity services at Zuckerberg San Francisco GeneralREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA · DPH$90,421UC-San Francisco General Hospital Perinatal ConsultationREGNTS OF UC ON BHLF OF UCSF MED CTR/GRP · DPH$52,315DPH - Laundry Laguna Honda Hospital and Zuckerberg San Francisco GeneralEMERALD TEXTILE SERVICES, NORCAL, LLC · ADMZuckerberg San Francisco General BLD 5 Inptnt AdlscntRODAN BUILDERS INC · DPWZuckerberg San Francisco General Chlr Rplmt Project MGACMGAC · DPWTC70381C DPH ZSFGH SwitchbrdRexel Usa Inc · ADM

Every line opens that contract’s own page, with its spend curve and its subcontractors. Agreed amounts are ceilings, not spending.

Voter-approved bond money$206.3M
ZSFG, Building 5Public Health and Safety bond · approved 2016$199.0M
Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) Renovation and Expansion at ZSFGHealth and Recovery bond · approved 2020$7.3M

Spent on work named for this place under the Public Health and Safety; Health and Recovery bonds. A floor, not a ceiling: bond reporting is by programme, so work here that was not separately itemised is not in this figure.

Run by the Public Health, whose whole-department budget is $3.2B across 8,904 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.

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