California Pacific Medical Center is the largest medical center of the Northern California-based Sutter Health health system and is the result of the merger of several of the longest established hospitals in San Francisco. It is a general medical/surgical hospital, academic medical center, and specialty hospital operating at multiple locations in San Francisco, California. Its primary campuses in San Francisco are the California Campus in Presidio Heights, the Pacific Campus in Pacific Heights, the Davies Campus in Lower Haight, and the St. Luke's campus in the Mission District. While it is a privately funded entity, CPMC has strong academic ties to the University of California, San Francisco as well as the Geisel School of Medicine of Dartmouth College.Historic originsThe present-day California Pacific Medical Center had origins in over a century of combining several early San Francisco medical institutions,. Included among them were: The German Hospital (founded in 1858 and renamed Franklin Hospital during World War I); St. Luke's Hospital (1871; originally on Bernal Hill, moved to the Cesar Chavez (Army) Street location in the 1880s - sharing the site with the Bancroft Library); The Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children (1875), its name was shortened to Children's Hospital in 1877; Cooper Medical College (1882), became Stanford Medical School in 1959,; Hahnemann Homeopathic Hospital (1887; renamed Marshall Hale Memorial hospital in the 1970s, before being merged into Children's in the 1980s), Lane Hospital of Cooper Medical College (1895), became Presbyterian Hospital after the school moved to Stanford; Garden Sullivan Hospital (1913),; and The Northern California Transplant Bank (1980). Several of these institutions operated nursing schools (Pacific Dispensary, St. Luke's, Lane Hospitals), as well as outreach clinics (e.g.: St. Luke's Neighborhood Clinic, founded in 1920) during portions of their history.
