Mount Zion Medical Service

Rashmi Manjunath, MD
Medical Director of
Mt. Zion Medical Service

The Mount Zion campus of UCSF Health reopened as an inpatient site on April 29, 2020. The inpatient component consists of an 18-bed acute care unit, a 28-bed surgical short stay unit (with 4 surge beds), and a 7-bed ICU unit. The acute care unit supports Hospital Medicine patients while the surgical unit supports Orthopedic Surgery as well as other smaller surgical and procedural services including ENT, Radiation Oncology, Pain Medicine, and Endocrine Surgery.

Our Mount Zion Hospital Medicine service has two to three daytime teams and one nocturnist. All teams provide direct care services, admitting and caring for lower acuity Hospital Medicine patients. Since Mount Zion does not have its own emergency room, our patients are transferred from the UCSF Emergency Department at Parnassus as well as laterally from Parnassus Medicine teams. In addition, we care for patients with planned admissions for Interventional Radiology or Ophthalmology services as well as medically acute PACU patients and Mount Zion ICU transfers. We have specific criteria to identify patients who are medically appropriate for transfer to Mount Zion for care. Given our 24/7 presence at the campus, we are on the Code Blue and Rapid Response teams.

One team additionally provides co-management for Orthopedic Surgery patients and consults for all other surgical services and Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital. In the co-management model, our hospitalists work closely with the Orthopedic Surgery physicians, PAs, nurses, pharmacists, and physical & occupational therapists to provide comprehensive, proactive, patient-centered care. We provide support for any preoperative medical evaluations or acute medical issues.

The smaller size of the Mount Zion inpatient units naturally fosters close community and collaboration among our multidisciplinary team. 

Please contact Rashmi Manjunath at [email protected] with any questions about the Mount Zion Hospital Medicine service.