In 1991, Presbyterian Hospital (at that time known as Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center) and Children's Hospital merged, medical staffs were combined, and a large joint physician group was established in 1993. The new multiple-facility entity was named California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC). Its two sites were renamed the California Campus (the Children's site, which ran along California Street) and the Pacific Campus (the Pacific Presbyterian site). The new hospital began its life by refusing to recognize the
California Nurses Association, which had represented registered nurses at Children's Hospital since 1947. The merged hospital also struggled to reduce costs, finally succeeding when a new management team took what opponents described as "a ruthless approach." The new CPMC inherited from Presbyterian Hospital its membership in the California HealthCare System; members also included Marin General Hospital, Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, and Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in San Mateo and Burlingame. This system joined with the Sutter Health System of Sacramento in 1996 to form Sutter/CHS, later renamed
Sutter Health. A major project of the new company was organizing capitalization for replacement of every hospital facility, to conform to new seismic legislation underway in the California Legislature. In 1997, the former Franklin Hospital (then known as Ralph K. Davies Medical Center) was acquired by CPMC and became its third campus. This action was motivated in part by the since-failed merger of area teaching giants Stanford Hospital and UCSF Medical Center. In 2007, St. Luke's Hospital joined CPMC as its fourth campus. St. Luke's had joined Sutter as an independent affiliate in July 2001, after initiating and pursuing anti-trust litigation against CPMC. In 2010, Sutter Health reorganized its hospitals and medical foundations into five regions. In 2013, CPMC and its West Bay Region partners began to implement the
Epic electronic health record, as a component of the $1+ billion adoption of this system across Sutter Health. In November 2014, Sutter Health announced further regional streamlining, where the West Bay Region was combined with the East Bay Region and the Peninsula Coastal Region to become one Sutter Health Bay Area operating unit. In 2013, CPMC began construction of a new $2.1 billion, 274-bed hospital on the site of the former
Jack Tar Hotel at Van Ness and Geary (once dubbed "the box Disneyland came in"). The new Van Ness Campus was to replace both the California Campus and Pacific Campus for inpatient care. Further, the new facility came with several
patient safety focused innovations, and is the first known structure in North America to use
viscous wall dampers designed to absorb strong
seismic activity. Van Ness Campus officially opened on March 2, 2019. Ground was broken in September 2014 to build a 120-bed replacement hospital at St. Luke's, after years of dispute over whether CPMC would continue to operate a hospital in the Mission District. Mission Bernal Campus officially opened ahead of schedule on August 25, 2018. This new facility has maternity services staffed by
certified nurse midwives and physicians that is on California's Maternity Care Honor roll, specialized acute
elderly care unit, and an emergency department with Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GED). As a part of the process for getting County permission to build the new facilities, CPMC has committed to maintaining or increasing its services to the city's poor. On June 5, 2015, surgeons at CPMC and
University of California, San Francisco successfully completed 18 surgeries in the nation's first nine-way, two-day kidney transplant chain in a single city. ==Research Institute==