Staff, patients’ families, and supporters held a recent rally at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland to protest the hospital’s decision to relocate specialized treatment clinics to San Francisco.
Protesters said the move is creating barriers to patient access to care and raised concerns about whether the hospital was appropriately using funds partially designated for pediatric services.
In response, hospital officials say they are concentrating resources for highly specialized procedures so patients can receive the highest quality of care…