Community Health Programs
Community Benefit Activities
California, Davies, and Pacific Campuses
The California, Davies, and Pacific Campuses are dedicated to providing our patients with services like disease counseling, family support, and wellness treatments. As one of California’s largest private, community based, not-for-profit, teaching medical centers, and a Sutter Health affiliate, we are able to reach deep into our community to provide education, screening, and financial support in some of the city’s most underserved neighborhoods.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among African American women and a leading cause in their cancer deaths. We are committed to reducing breast cancer and its devastation by getting women in earlier for first-time screenings and annual mammograms, and raising awareness through outreach education.
The Bayview Child Health Center, located at 1335 Evans Avenue, is a comprehensive, community-based child and adolescent health care center providing high-quality pediatric primary care and serves as a hub for access to community resources.
The Grants Program represents an annual investment of more than $500,000 in community health promotions. The awarded grants focus on improving the health of vulnerable populations, particularly targeting the uninsured, children and youth, seniors, and underserved communities.
Health Champions is one of California Pacific’s longest running community programs. This school-based obesity prevention project stresses the benefits of physical activity and healthy eating for children, school staff, and families.
The MOVE Program addresses the needs of overweight children and their families. Our pilot sites are Chinatown Public Health Center and the California Pacific Medical Center Physician Foundation Family Health Center.
The Partnership in Community Health (aka Charity Care Partnership Fund) program aims to promote timely access to primary and specialty health care for the San Francisco’s uninsured. Since its inception in 2005, the Medical Center has invested $6 million in collaboration with a number of community partners including the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium.
Community Benefit Activities
St. Luke’s Campus
St. Luke’s Campus plays a vital role in addressing San Francisco’s unmet community health needs. Situated in San Francisco’s Mission District, St. Luke’s serves a diverse yet disproportionately low-income community. Many neighborhoods within its service area have been federally designated “Medically Underserved.”
St. Luke’s primary service area includes the San Francisco neighborhoods of the Mission (including Bernal Heights), Excelsior, Bayview Hunter’s Point, Visitation Valley, South of Market, Tenderloin, Twin Peaks, and Potrero Hill, as well as the communities of northern San Mateo County.
HealthFirst, an ambulatory health resource center at St. Luke’s campus presents an unprecedented opportunity to establish a specialized multicultural health care facility offering an array of culturally tailored health education, nutrition, social services, and patient navigation services in conjunction with medical providers, and other health and social service organizations in the South of Market area. The Center will serve as a hub of prevention, education, and care coordination activities in the neighborhoods surrounding St. Luke’s.
St. Luke’s has a long history of providing health education and prevention services to the surrounding communities, particularly San Francisco’s Latino community. St. Luke’s has developed asthma and pulmonary educational programs, diabetes education and outreach center, breast health center, as well as comprehensive maternal and child health services.
CRRP provides comprehensive risk assessment and treatment for individuals with or at risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Intensive treatment of heart disease risk factors can substantially lower a person's risk of developing cardiovascular complications.
St. Luke’s on-site health clinic is central to the delivery of health programs for the 200+ formerly homeless residents at Canon Barcus Community House. The clinic focuses on providing family and pediatric acute and preventative care, mental health services for children, HIV/AIDS care, health education, and reproductive health care.
The Centering Pregnancy Program is an innovative service that provides high-quality care and education under the supervision of certified nurse midwives with the comforting support of other pregnant women. Topics covered include, comfort measures, nutrition, exercise and relaxation, labor preparation, pregnancy complications, family planning, abuse and domestic violence, parenting, communication, community resources, and danger signs and symptoms.
