A Project to Expand Specialty Care at Parnassus Heights
Hospital Project Overview
Drawing on UCSF’s proud history of serving San Francisco for more than a century, the future hospital at UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital (HDH) at Parnassus Heights will increase UCSF’s capacity to provide world-class patient care to those who seek it. Inspired by The Healing Habitat, the new hospital will include more than 300 inpatient beds, diagnostic and treatment facilities, graduate schools in heath sciences, as well as public areas that cater to both inpatients and outpatients in a holistic approach.
The project is designed to address the social, psychological, spiritual and behavioral components of health. Integrating seamlessly into its surroundings, the new hospital brings nature, human-centered design and innovative medical care into one environment.
Project Highlights
- New 880,000-square foot hospital
- Approximately $2.9B including make-ready work
- 11-party IFOA contract
- First flagship project in a suite of new additions to the Parnassus Campus over the next 10 years
- Connection to existing legacy hospitals
- Capacity/bed increase of 37% beds to serve a growing aging population
- Latest innovations in science and medicine
- Groundbreaking design to integrate natural beauty of Mt. Sutro and create a healing habitat
- Construction using two of the seven largest cranes in the world
A Hospital for the Future
The new hospital will be architecturally remarkable, built to be energy-efficient, seismically sound and environmentally sustainable. To bring this vision to life, UCSF has selected internationally recognized designer Herzog & deMeuron and global leader in healthcare design HDR.
The facility will offer:
Advanced integrated technologies that create opportunities for personalized services—wayfinding, entertainment, information—and allow patients to take control of their own health and wellness.
Panoramic views, sunlight, and natural surroundings, and a supportive workplace with optimal resources for clinicians and staff in surroundings that promote their physical and emotional health.
A holistic healing experience that begins before check-in and extends throughout the stay, discharge sequence, and continued recovery. It will be a place that transforms patients, their families, and support systems into active participants in their healing process.
Rooms designed for privacy and infection control, and calming communal spaces that foster stronger, supportive relationships between providers, patients, and families.
Increased Capacity to Meet Demand by 2030
The new hospital at Parnassus Heights is designed to serve the needs of patients from the Bay Area and beyond. With a target completion of 2030, the additional space will allow UCSF to serve more patients, with final distribution of beds still in planning.
2022-2024
Relocation of site utilities and demolition of the existing Langley-Porter Psychiatric Institute (LPPI).
2024-2029
Construction of the new hospital.
2028-2029
Testing, pre-occupancy, and final planning of the new hospital.
2030
Grand opening of the new hospital at UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital at Parnassus Heights.
Meeting the Health Needs of Tomorrow
The future hospital at UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital at Parnassus Heights will increase capacity to provide world-class patient care to those who need it.
News
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Parnassus Heights Construction Update, November 2025Construction teams are continuing early-morning concrete pours, with scheduled activities on November 11 and 25. Early-morning concrete pours will continue into January 2026, then pause for several months before the next phase begins.
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