Seton Medical Center

Seton Medical Center
Verity Health System
Shown in California
Geography
Location 1900 Sullivan Ave., Daly City, California, United States
Coordinates 37°40′48″N 122°28′29″W / 37.6799°N 122.4746°W / 37.6799; -122.4746Coordinates: 37°40′48″N 122°28′29″W / 37.6799°N 122.4746°W / 37.6799; -122.4746
Organization
Patron Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Services
Beds 357
History
Founded 1893
Links
Website www.setonmedicalcenter.org
Lists Hospitals in California

Seton Medical Center (originally Mary's Help Hospital) is a 357-bed Verity Health System[1] hospital.[2] It was founded in San Francisco. The current complex is located in Daly City, California, United States.[3] It is the largest employer in Daly City.[4]

History

San Francisco period

In 1889 Kate Johnson, a wealthy San Francisco widow made donations to acquire land and build a "sunshine hospital" for women and children under the condition it be operated by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.[3] It was built in San Francisco on Guerrero Street.[3] Johnson was impressed with their work with "orphans, beggars, prisoners, the sick, refugees, and the mentally ill" during her European travels.[3] The medical center was founded as Mary's Help Hospital in 1893 by the Daughters of Charity of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and a new building, located at 145 Guerrero Street at Brosnan Street (west of the Levi Strauss factory), by April 1906, was almost completed[5] but destroyed shortly thereafter by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[3] In 1912 Mary’s Help Hospital officially opened as did its nursing school program.[3] In 1913 this made it the largest private hospital in Northern California.[3] The medical center offered free and partial payment services in addition to free food.[3]

Daly City period

By the 1950s the hospital was becoming overwhelmed with over 30,000 patients annually, and an earthquake in 1957 that damaged the building led to a decision to build a new hospital.[3] In 1965 a new hospital was built in Daly City as San Francisco was found to have a surplus while northern San Mateo County was in need of a medical center and emergency room services.[3] The site was a hillside near Interstate 280 that was until that point a heather and field crops farm.[6] It was designed like all previous incarnations to be a "sunshine hospital" meaning that every room had a windowed view into the exterior world where natural sunlight could make it to them.[3]

In 1983 it was renamed in honor of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the American founder of the Sisters of Charity.[3] From 1995 to 2002 the hospital was managed by Catholic Healthcare West,[3] a change opposed by nurses' unions.[7] In 2011, Seton Medical Center was ranked fifth of forty-four Bay Area hospitals by U.S. News and World Report.[8]

In 2012 the hospital was fined $100,000 for causing the death of an elderly woman in a vegetative state when it inserted a breathing tube with the cap still on, leaving her unable to exhale.[9] In 2012, Daly City mayor Sal Torres lauded the hospital for its 100th anniversary.[10]

The hospital is credited in part with attracting the initial influx of Filipino immigrants to Daly City, which has the highest largest concentration of Filipinos in the U.S.[4][11]

Facilities

SamTrans operates the Seton Shuttle, connecting the hospital with Daly City BART station. The service operates from just before 6 a.m. until 9 a.m. and from around noon until nearly 7 p.m.[12]

Seton also operates Seton Coastside, a clinic in the rural beachtown of Moss Beach.[13]

The facility is Daly City's largest employer,[14] and is one of eight hospitals with emergency services in the county.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Verity Hospitals". Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mission, Values and History". Seton Medical Center. 1900 Sullivan Ave., Daly City, CA: Daughters of Charity Health System. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Our History, Seton Medical Center website, access date 18-02-2012
  4. 1 2 Vergara, Benito (2009). Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City. Temple University Press. pp. 30, 34. ISBN 978-1-59213-664-3.
  5. ↑ "Seton Medical Center celebrates 100 years". Catholic San Francisco. Archdiocese of San Francisco. August 10, 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Daly City By Bunny Gillespie, Dave Crimmen - Then and Now
  7. ↑ Catholic Healthcare's Kingdom: CHW unites 4 local affiliate hospitals for West Bay region, Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle, 26-07-1996, access date 27-02-2012
  8. ↑ They Rank Bay Area Hospitals, Don’t They? U.S.News & World Report. sfcitizen.com. March 31, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
  9. ↑ Daly City hospital fined $100K for patient death, San Francisco Chronicle, Will Kane, 03-02-2012, access date 18-02-2012
  10. ↑ Mayor's Corner, 21-02-2012, access date 13-03-2012
  11. ↑ Terrezas, Alexis (2011-03-19). "After 100 years, Daly City reflects on history of diversity". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
  12. ↑ samtrans Seton Shuttle, access date 18-02-2012
  13. ↑ Seton Coastside, Seton Coastside website, access date 18-02-2012
  14. ↑ Daly City, Bunny Gillespie, Dave Crimmen, 2011
  15. ↑ "List of Hospitals in San Mateo County". Retrieved 13 May 2016.
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