Unable to Actually Change the Hospital s Name, SF Supervisors to Pass Resolution Condemning the Zuckerberg Part of SF General
Unlike some publications around town, SFist mostly still calls the hospital SF General, because Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital or, technically, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is just an awkward mouthful. But the SF Board of Supervisors was expected to pass a non-binding resolution Tuesday to condemn the renaming of the hospital five years after the renaming took place.
Back in July we heard that at least two supervisors, Gordon Mar and Matt Haney, were agitating to have the Zuckerberg-Chans removed from the public hospital s name, and talk of this goes back several years. It s, of course, been a bad few years in the press for Facebook and Zuckerberg. And while people might have winced a little at the renaming of the hospital back in 2015 when the mega-billionaire couple donated $75 m