Bay Area public-health officials gathered at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Thursday to plead for $500 million in state funding to offset federal funding cuts.
The state’s 17 public hospitals face about $3 billion in funding cuts as a result of the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and could suffer $800 million in cuts in the upcoming state budget.
San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Daniel Tsai and representatives from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, as well as health-care workers from UCSF and Service Employees International Union 1021, spoke out at a press conference in support of a proposal from the California Association of Public Hospitals for a $500 million fund to be included in the state budget…