Oakland hospital building is approved for construction

UC Regents sign off on $1.5 billion project to construct a new hospital building at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, securing the future of world-class pediatric facilities in the East Bay.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals has received final approval on a $1.49 billion hospital building on its Oakland campus that will provide a state-of-the-art, child-centered medical facility for families across the Bay Area. The proposal was approved July 18 by the University of California Board of Regents.

The vote paves the way for UCSF Health to modernize UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland – a historic pediatric safety net hospital and Level 1 trauma center that has served children and their families in Oakland for more than a century and consistently ranks among the leading children’s hospitals in the nation