Oakland families affected most by UCSF decision to move pediatric care across the Bay

A guest commentary from a UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland social worker, published by CalMatters, describes fallout from UCSF's move of pediatric services like bone marrow transplant care and interventional radiology out of Oakland and into San Francisco. The writer says immunocompromised and critically ill children now face cross-Bay Uber trips for specialist visits, and that a patient needing post-transplant emergency care would be treated in Oakland before being transferred to San Francisco mid-crisis. Per CalMatters, the piece also raises concerns about impacts on Black patients with sickle cell disease and questions how Alameda County's Measure C healthcare tax funds are being used as services shift away from Oakland. The author is calling on UCSF to restore the moved services and meet with hospital workers and affected families.

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