On Thursday, April 25, the UCSF community will mark the groundbreaking of the new hospital at UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. The UCSF community is invited to celebrate as the NHPH team officially begins construction on the new hospital. At the event, the UCSF community can discover how the new hospital will transform the care experience for our patients and support our faculty members, staff, and learners across the campus.  

• Thursday, April 25, 2024, Open House from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Millberry Union Conference Center, 500 Parnassus Ave. San Francisco 
• RSVP here (UCSF community only). 

UCSF Health is alerting patients with appointments at Parnassus Heights about the construction via MyChart, text, newsletter, and its website.

The NHPH project reached a milestone in the creation of a new oxygen tank yard, which will support the Parnassus Heights campus. On Saturday, April 20, three oxygen were delivered to and installed at the site, south of the NHPH site and east of the existing hospital. The tanks are expected to go-live in summer 2024.

• Every weekend through 2024, Medical Center Way will be closed. Emergency and other key service vehicles will have access on Medical Center Way.  

Several 90-foot-long steel beams are being delivered between 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. to the NHPH site. The early morning beam deliveries are scheduled to occur through May 2024. The early morning delivery time is set by SFMTA as a condition of the vehicle permit, which requires trucks wider than 12 feet, or longer than 90 feet, to drive between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Noise and other impacts are expected to be minimal from the beam deliveries. 

Deep soil mixing is ongoing as part of site improvements, and shoring will continue onsite into June 2024. For this work, a drill rig and crane are being used. You can expect to hear intermittent air horns as part of safety measures while cranes are in use.

Dates and details are subject to change.

Sewer Tie-in and MCW Widening: Plans are underway to start construction for a project on Parnassus Avenue near the NHPH for a Parnassus sewer tie-in and widening of Medical Center Way. A traffic dry run is expected to occur on Parnassus Avenue by early May 2024. 

Driveway Updates at Moffitt Circle: Through late April 2024, a lane will be closed in the existing hospital entrance driveway, Moffitt Circle, 505 Parnassus Ave., to install planters. The updates are part of a project to build a new emergency oxygen supply connection to support the new and current hospitals.  

• You can expect to hear noise from the work. 
• UCSF ambassadors are managing traffic flow and assisting patients and visitors. 

Emergency Department (ED) Vestibule Renovation and Awning Demolition: Through June 2024, construction is underway to renovate the ED vestibule and demolish the ED awning. The first phase will be an ED entry pathway renovation, which is expected to be completed in early May 2024, and the second phase is demolishing the awning, which is expected to be occur for approximately two weeks at the end of June 2024.

• Signs are posted for patients and visitors around the construction site.
• Noise impacts are expected to minimal around the areas of construction.

This short, animated video shows seven years of construction, concluding with the completion of the New Hospital at Parnassus Heights (NHPH) project. The timeline at the top of the video shows what activities will take place each year. 

• Increased traffic along Parnassus Avenue due to construction. 
• Through May 2024, there will be an increase in trucks off hauling soil from Clarendon Avenue to Medical Center Way, then east on Parnassus Avenue to Stanyan Street.  
• You can expect some noise, dust and vibration impacts near the site. 
• The project team is spraying water on the rubble to tamp down the dust.  
• Next to the site, UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights is increasing the monitoring of air intake and filter changing to help mitigate any potential impacts.  
• UCSF Health is alerting patients with appointments at Parnassus Heights about the construction via MyChart, text, newsletter, and its website. 
• Hospital entrance (Moffitt Circle) is limited to patient pickup and drop-off only. 
• Hospital deliveries will be directed to park in the white zone west of Moffitt Circle. 
• Private vehicle parking in the ED will be limited to patient drop-off and pickup only.  
• Pedestrians will be routed through a protected pathway around construction.