The resumption of in-patient care at Mount Zion Hospital in 2020 after many years as an outpatient site presented an opportunity for imaging expansion. The pandemic-provoked transformation was not the first time this hospital has reinvented itself in its long history. On November 3, 1887, 43 members of San Francisco’s Jewish community met for the first time to plan a hospital in the San Francisco area, “for the purpose of aiding the indigent sick without regard to race or creed, to be supported by the Jewish community.” The hospital, dubbed Mount Zion, was given the mission to practice healing, grounded in learning and supported by acts of personal kindness. In 1990, UCSF acquired Mount Zion, more than a century after its founding as San Francisco’s first Jewish hospital.
When COVID-19 began to spread in California in March 2020, Mount Zion sprang into action, opening an…
