News

With Respiratory Viruses Circulating, All Bay Area Health Officers Recommend Actions to Stay Healthy for the Holidays

Health Officers from the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano, Sonoma, and the city of Berkeley encourage the public to take these easy steps to protect themselves and others this holiday season.  

Long-term Future of Laguna Honda Hospital Secure as the State Grants Medicaid Recertification

With approval to receive Medi-Cal funding, 150-year-old public hospital will continue to serve City’s most vulnerable residents

San Francisco’s Citywide Response To Covid-19 Spread Resulted In Lower Levels Of Mortality And Illness Across All Ages And Ethnicities, New Study Shows 

San Francisco Department of Public Health experts led study with UCSF partners to detail equity-focused pandemic response measures and outcomes  

San Francisco Department Of Public Health Accepting Grant Applications For Community Partnerships To Reduce Overdose Death Disparities

Substance Use Prevention and Education Program for Black and Other Impacted Residents  

SAN FRANCISCO TO END COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARATION AND HEALTH ORDERS

***PRESS RELEASE***

Xylazine Media Statement

The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has determined that four individuals who had died of drug overdoses had low levels of xylazine in their systems.

ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE DEATHS DECLINE IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR AS FENTANYL/OPIOID EPIDEMIC RAGES NATIONWIDE 

City continues to ramp up overdose prevention efforts in 2023 with the expansion of treatment and availability of the antidote for opioid overdose 

WITH RESPIRATORY VIRUSES CIRCULATING, 12 BAY AREA HEALTH OFFICIALS RECOMMEND ACTIONS TO STAY HEALTHY FOR THE HOLIDAYS

This holiday season, another surge in COVID infections, along with high levels of influenza (flu) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), are straining healthcare systems and impacting families. 

SAN FRANCISCO HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO DISTRIBUTE MORE THAN 5,000 HOLIDAY TURKEYS TO COMBAT FOOD INSECURTY   

City partners with the San Francisco African American Faith-Based Coalition and other community groups to feed people in need  

PROGRAM PROVIDING BASIC INCOME TO BLACK PREGNANT WOMEN EXPANDS TO HELP MOTHERS ACROSS THE STATE

Abundant Birth Project receives $5 million state grant to reduce preterm birth rates among Black mothers and provide babies a healthy start in life