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Health director lays out SFGH rebuild plan, estimates $622M base cost and three escalation scenarios
Summary
Dr. Mitch Katz presented the San Francisco General Hospital rebuild plan to the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, citing seismic mandate SB 1953, proposing an underground "super floor" to protect historic buildings, and offering cost estimates (about $622–623 million base; FF&E $157.9M; $2.7M per bed for 230 beds) with mid- and high-cost scenarios.
Dr. Mitch Katz, director of public health for the city and county, told the Government Audit and Oversight Committee that the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) rebuild is driven by state seismic law and that the county cannot continue to operate without a seismically compliant acute-care trauma center.
"San Francisco General is the only acute care hospital, run by the county, the only trauma center," Katz said, noting the hospital handles roughly half of the city's ambulance drop-offs and more than 100,000 acute-care days annually. "We couldn't possibly in San Francisco survive on a day to day basis, let alone in an emergency, were this hospital closed." (Dr. Mitch Katz)
Katz reviewed three earlier site approaches that were rejected — building on the 20 Third Street parking lot (which would place emergency…
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