Workers say that overcrowding and staffing shortages at the UCSF Parnassus emergency room are putting patients in unsafe conditions, with many receiving care in hallways or on the waiting room floor.
As Mission Local reports, staff members say conditions inside the emergency department at University of California San Francisco Medical Center at Parnassus Heights have deteriorated to the point where patients wait hours for treatment. In some cases, patients suffer medical emergencies while beds sit unused due to staffing shortages.
Workers describe a growing gap between UCSF’s reputation as a premier hospital and what they say is happening inside the ER, where overcrowding and understaffing have become routine…