San Francisco Medical Center
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In 2025, we celebrated the incredible resilience, creativity, and collaboration of our hospital and ambulatory care teams. Together, we continued to raise the bar for nursing excellence, improving the quality of care and making a real difference for our patients.
Our Emergency Department showed team improvement within triage workflows to shorten wait times, reducing patient falls, strengthen our sepsis and stroke pathways through evidence-based protocols, and increased participation in hospital-wide committees to support teamwork across departments.
Interventional Radiology continued to shine as a leader in collaboration and nurse-driven improvement. IR nurses are playing a key role in shared governance councils and bringing forward ideas to enhance safety, streamline procedures, and improve communication between teams. Their active participation will continue to drive system-wide improvement and reinforce a culture of professional growth.
Our Cardiac Catheterization Lab also reached new milestones this year. Nursing was a key component as we introduced an electrophysiology lab allowing advanced imaging technology, refined recovery protocols to help patients go home sooner, and partners closely with ED and IR teams to strengthen cardiac care pathways.
The expansion of our Urgent Care and opening our new Ambulatory Treatment Center highlights out continued commitment to patient-centered care and operational excellence. These achievements are the result of dedication, compassion and teamwork shown by ever nurse and nurse leader across Kaiser Permanente San Francisco.
To all our nurses, thank you. Your skills, kindness, and determination inspire us all. Together, we are shaping the future of nursing and delivery at San Francisco that truly reflects our mission to improve the lives of our members and their families.
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Transformational Leadership
Fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability to evolve the way we provide care.
KP SFO nursing team advances community wellness through food bank partnership
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco nurses continue to extend care beyond hospital walls through community service.
Celebrating our San Francisco Medical Center nurses
Through our awards programs, we recognize nurses and care partners who exemplify excellence and provide high-quality, compassionate care to our members and patients.
Recognized for excellence
The San Francisco Medical Center received several awards and accolades.
Structural Empowerment
Empowering nurses to actively contribute their ideas and suggestions to help achieve organizational goals and enhance health outcomes effectively.
Supporting the future of San Francisco Medical Center nursing
Mentoring is a hallmark of professional practice and transformational leadership that inspires, empowers, and develops leaders at all levels of nursing. Several nurse leaders supported the future of nursing by serving as a mentor to nurses new to their practice.
NICU and pediatric teams create Open Forum
What began as a simple drop-in hour quickly transformed into one of the most energizing engagement spaces in the NICU and Pediatric units.
KP San Francisco partners with ANCC to make certification free
Certification is linked to lower risk events, stronger RN engagement, and improved patient outcomes.
Nursing professional governance at San Francisco Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco’s nursing councils advanced professional practice, recognition, and patient care throughout 2025.
San Francisco Medical Center nurses soar to new heights in their practice
Kaiser Permanente nurses demonstrated their commitment to creating and sustaining a culture of excellence by advancing their professional practice through earning advanced degrees, moving to the next level of the clinical ladder, obtaining national board certification, and graduating from the nurse residency program.
Exemplary Professional Practice
Utilizing evidence to deliver care that aligns with Kaiser Permanente’s mission and vision, and our nursing Professional Practice Model.
OB evening shift rounds: Bedside collaboration
The OB Evening Rounds project was born out of collaborative conversations
Enhancing the antepartum patient experience
When the L&D team assumed care of the Antepartum department last year, they saw an opportunity to support patients beyond clinical needs.
Critical Care launches “Moments Matter” recognition program
By honoring the everyday moments that define exceptional patient care, Critical Care is building a stronger culture of appreciation and conn
New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvements
Continually evolving to advance patient care rooted in evidenced-based practice, research, and innovation.
Successful transition of cardiac patients to specialty unit
While formally known as 5C, many staff affectionately refer to the unit as “the CPU”—a nod to its role as the heart of cardiac procedures at
Hearing amplifier initiative: From personal experience to DAISY grant
Michelle Zhao’s personal experience with hearing amplifiers inspired a project to improve communication for perioperative patients.
Magnet committee creates source for nursing professional development and excellence
By streamlining access, the committee is helping nurses engage more fully in evidence-based practice, governance, and recognition.
Empirical Quality Outcomes
Demonstrating the impact Kaiser Permanente nurses are making in the lives of our members, patients, and communities we serve.
6 South team elevates care through loving-kindness
6S team’s achievement demonstrates how intentional leadership, collaboration, and listening to patients can create a thriving environment.
Umbilical cleaning re-education helps reduce infection rates
In late 2023, perioperative teams identified inconsistent umbilical cleaning practices, with compliance rates below 52%.