Crime & Safety
No Shooting at San Francisco General Hospital: SFPD
Police confirm that remnants of an explosion were found inside the hospital.

San Francisco, CA - An hours-long crisis at San Francisco General Hospital has ended with no injuries.
Initial reports from the hospital were that a large boom was heard and possible shots fired. Some people evacuated, while most workers and patients sheltered in place.
Police and sheriff's deputies performed a methodical search of the hospital, where they found remnants an M80 type explosive.
There were no injuries.
Several streets near the hospital were blocked off during the search.
The SFPD Bomb Squad and FBI agents were also at the hospital.
Social media lit up with reports of an active shooter, which later proved to be untrue.
#SFPD confirming remnants of an M80 type explosive found inside the hospital. No injuries to anyone involved. #SF
— Ofc. Grace Gatpandan (@OfficerGrace) July 7, 2016
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is the only Level I Trauma Center in San Francisco. It's also designated as the Level I Trauma Center for northern San Mateo County.
The hospital serves the city's poor, with some 80 percent of patients using Medicare, Medi Cal or uninsured.
The hospital was opened in 1857 following a cholera epidemic that devastated San Francisco. The wooden structure survived the 1906 great earthquake and fire. However, it was soon deemed inadequate and replaced in 1915 with its current red brick, Italian Renaissance style complex.
The Trauma Center was added in 1972.
Residents approved a new bond measure in 2008 to build a new hospital between the historic brick buildings.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $75 million to the hospital in 2015. At the time, it was the largest single donation to a public hospital in the nation. In gratitude, the City renamed the hospital for the Zuckerbergs.
Chan served a pediatric residency at UCSF and trained alongside doctors at SF General.
