In 2015, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and paediatrician Priscilla Chan announced a $75 million gift to San Francisco General Hospital. The massive donation became a crucial part of the transformation of the city's only trauma center and largest safety-net hospital. The $75 million donation by Priscilla Chan helped pay for critical equipment and technology inside the new acute care and trauma center. The new hospital was designed with substantially expanded emergency and intensive-care capabilities. Plans called for two additional trauma rooms and three more operating rooms. The Emergency Department was expected to double in size compared with the existing facility.
The new emergency department would also be capable of significantly increasing its number of beds during a major disaster or emergency. The project included 28 additional intensive-care beds, along with two more palliative-care rooms. For younger patients, the new facility was planned to include four pediatric examination rooms and a dedicated pediatric waiting room in the Emergency Department.
