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UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center* has again been named to the national Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report's 2025-2026 Best Hospitals rankings for adult care, a distinction earned by only 20 medical centers nationwide and four in California.

UC San Francisco-led study shows that despite efforts to standardize stroke care, Black patients are not seeing the same treatment gains as White patients – even when being treated in the same hospital.

Shih-Chuan (Andrew) Chou, MD, MPH, SM, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at UC San Francisco and an affiliate member of the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS), is the IHPS' Faculty Spotlight Conversation of the month! 

Findings from a UC San Francisco study led by Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc, showed that while disadvantaged communities gained the most access to newly certified stroke centers, they saw significantly fewer improvements in treatment and outcomes. 

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the CARESTAR Foundation to launch a first-of-its-kind study examining emergency medical services (EMS) providers' perspectives on caring for children in acute agitation.

2025 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award recipient Theresa Cheng, MD, JD, reflects on her care philosophy, humanistic medicine, and her unconventional path to emergency medicine in a Q&A with the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine.

Chair of the UC San Francisco Department of Emergency Medicine, Peter Sokolove, MD, FACEP, has been named a recipient of the School of Medicine's 2025 Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service.

The UC San Francisco Department of Emergency Medicine demonstrated its leadership and commitment to advancing emergency care at the 2025 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting from May 13 – 16.

The Department of Emergency Medicine had strong representation at the 2025 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from April 24 through 28.

Three UCSF Health hospitals received “A” ratings in the spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit watchdog focused on patient safety.

A national cross-sectional survey study led by Melanie Molina, MD, MAS, found that fewer than one-third of United States emergency departments (EDs) screened for adverse social determinants of health (SDOH) and one-fifth lacked policies requiring a response to positive screens, despite the high prevalence of unmet social needs in ED populations.

Emergency departments nationwide are overcrowded and overtaxed, but a new study suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could one day help prioritize which patients need treatment most urgently.