Wow, February already?!! It's been quite a while since my last post, so let me begin with a much belated "Happy New Year" to you and yours.
The Christmas and New Year's holidays with family and friends back in Texas were enjoyable and over way too soon. Whether it was Tyler, San Antonio, Austin or Harlingen, the seven-day trip provided an opportunity to reconnect and recharge - as well as put a few hundred miles on the rental car!
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| You can't go wrong with Texas-sized yellow Round Rock Donuts! |
Meantime, everyone knows Super Bowl 49 (or XLIX) was Sunday (Feb. 1), and kudos to the Patriots for another world championship (Marshawn Lynch?!). It's only been 30 years since the Dolphins last Super Bowl appearance, so I'm used to the phrase "There's always next year." The 2016 title game, though, is right here in the Bay Area (Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara). One can always dream...
But the football game wasn't the only "Super Bowl" that day. After a decade of planning,
UC San Francisco opened three new hospitals totaling more than $1.52 billion in the eastern part of the city - Mission Bay.
I was fortunate enough to be a part of history, as UCSF Medical Center transferred approximately 130 patients from its Parnassus and Mount Zion hospitals to UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay on the opening day of the new medical center. All together, 40 ambulances were involved in the move.
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| Yours truly talking with a colleague in our Parnassus command center. |
The new facilities include the the only operating hospital helipad in San Francisco and the world’s largest fleet of
autonomous robotic couriers (let's hope they don't become sentient!).
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| Wall of tiles in the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital at Mission Bay as part of the "Art for Recovery Project." |
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| That's my Texas tile in the middle! Who says I'm not an artist!? |
I could recap the day's events, but my colleagues did a much better job. Here are just a couple of their stories:
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay Opens, Welcomes 131 Patients
"Operation at Mission Bay all clear."
Yep, it was a busy but very rewarding Sunday - just another day for Erica and I in San Francisco.
Til the next time...
