The UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco Emergency Department treats infants, children and adolescents with serious illnesses or injuries. As part of San Francisco's only children's hospital, we provide the highest-quality emergency care in a state-of-the-art space designed just for kids. We are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
We offer:
- Doctors and nurses trained in pediatric emergency medicine
- Equipment designed for children and their unique needs
- Child life specialists to help decrease the anxiety kids experience in the hospital while helping them understand their treatment
- Access to 150 top-ranked UCSF pediatric specialists and all the services of a world-renowned children's hospital
- An air ambulance to transport critically-ill patients from all over Northern California to our rooftop helipad, the only operational hospital helipad in San Francisco
- An ACGME accredited Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship program