The Medical and Surgical Division includes adult inpatient medical
and surgical units, and research and dialysis units. Many of our patients are
referred here by outside physicians and hospitals for the state-of-the services
provided at the UCSF Medical Center. The medical center is distinguished by its
expertise in complex and rare disease, and highly specialized diagnosis and
treatment in a broad range of specialties. Annually, about
668 kidney, combined kidney/pancreas, and liver transplants
are done here, making the
medical center one of the major organ transplant centers in the country.
The Medical and Surgical Division has approximately 190 beds and 21 dialysis stations. The division has units in the adjacent Long and Moffitt Hospitals at Parnassus and in Mount Zion Hospital. The units are in the following areas:
- Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery: 10 Long is a telemetry unit with both surgery and medical patients. Surgical procedures include heart and lung transplants, valve replacement, vascular reconstruction and CABG. Cardiology patients include MI, CHF and cardiomyopathy. This is a fast-paced, high acuity unit with many opportunities for learning.
- Dialysis:
- The Acute Hemodialysis Unit (AHU) on the 9th floor of Long Hospital provides dialysis/apheresis treatments to adult and pediatric inpatients.
- The Outpatient Dialysis unit is located at Mt. Zion campus and provides hemodialysis and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) treatments.
- General Clinical Research Center: 12 Moffitt (GCRC) is partially funded by the NHI and is the center for much of the patient research done at UCSF Medical Center. The unit participates in numerous and diverse research studies, both with inpatients and outpatients. Studies include healthy volunteers and research protocols for patients with a diagnosis. Anyone interested in research will find this a most exciting place to work. Staff on this unit work 9-hour shifts.
- General Medicine: 14 Long is a busy, dynamic general medicine unit providing care for a wide variety of diagnoses. Many of the patients are elderly and present with a myriad of chronic illnesses in addition to the acute condition causing hospitalization. Providing care is challenging and rewarding and there is an opportunity to work with and become part of the Geriatric Resource Nurse team.
- Medical/Surgical Transitional Unit: 14 Moffitt has a patient population mix which includes transitional care devoted to medical and surgical patients and care devoted to non-transitional medical/surgical patients. Most of the beds have telemetry capability. High acuity, telemetry and general med-surg population make this unit a challenging and rewarding place to work.
- Neurosurgery/Neurology: 8 Long houses our neuro patient population and includes complex neuro spine surgeries in addition to brain surgeries. You will have the opportunity to learn neuro telemtry for our seizure patient population and to work with many rare neurological diseases. UCSF is a major neuro-science referral center and is a Center for Excellence in Neuro.
- Oncology/Immunology: 11 Long provides highly specialized care to patients with oncology and hematology disorders including leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and solid tumors. Bone marrow transplants and radiation implants are also card for on this unit. The UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center is internationally recognized and a leader in the implementation of the latest protocols for cancer treatment.
- Orthopedics/Abdominal Surgery: 12 Long is a fast-paced, challenging unit providing care for our major abdominal and orthopedic surgery patients. Major abdominal surgeries include hepatectomy. colectomy, Whipple procedures and pancreatectomy. Orthopedic sugeries include joint replacement, oncology and sports medicine.
- Short Stay Surgical Unit: 4 East on the Mt. Zion campus specializes in the care of the patient who requires a limited stay following surgery. Common surgeries seen on this unit include thyroidectomies, plastic surgery, gynecology and urology. Staff work 8-hour shifts.
- Surgery Oncology: 5 North on the Mt. Zion campus, near the Comprehensive Canter Center, provides care to oncology patients undergoing surgery. Surgeries include abdominal, head and neck, gynecology and urology.
- Transplant: 9 Long is the unit where all of the kidney, pancreas, and liver transplants are cared for. UCSF is a Center for Excellence in Transplant Surgery, performing over 668 transplants a year.