

Stop UCSF's Bay Bridge Children's Health Crisis: Restore Pediatric Care to Oakland
The Issue
Every day, families of critically ill East Bay children face an impossible choice: stay at the bedside of a sick child in San Francisco, or go home to work and care for the rest of the family.
UCSF created this crisis. After taking over Children's Hospital Oakland, it began moving specialized pediatric services to San Francisco facilities, including bone marrow transplant care, interventional radiology, and specialty testing.
Immunocompromised kids told to avoid infection exposure are now being forced to travel.
Caregivers are waking before dawn, arranging rides, rearranging entire family schedules.
If something goes wrong after a transplant, families are told to go to the Oakland ER and wait to be transferred across the Bay, in the middle of a medical crisis.
Children's Hospital Oakland is one of only five Level 1 pediatric trauma centers in California. It has served generations of low-income, immigrant, and Medi-Cal families. UCSF has invested billions in San Francisco expansions while stripping Oakland care, service by service.
More than 100 hospital workers and families have already rallied in protest. Sign to demand UCSF stop moving critical services, restore care in Oakland, and meet directly with workers and families.
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The Issue
Every day, families of critically ill East Bay children face an impossible choice: stay at the bedside of a sick child in San Francisco, or go home to work and care for the rest of the family.
UCSF created this crisis. After taking over Children's Hospital Oakland, it began moving specialized pediatric services to San Francisco facilities, including bone marrow transplant care, interventional radiology, and specialty testing.
Immunocompromised kids told to avoid infection exposure are now being forced to travel.
Caregivers are waking before dawn, arranging rides, rearranging entire family schedules.
If something goes wrong after a transplant, families are told to go to the Oakland ER and wait to be transferred across the Bay, in the middle of a medical crisis.
Children's Hospital Oakland is one of only five Level 1 pediatric trauma centers in California. It has served generations of low-income, immigrant, and Medi-Cal families. UCSF has invested billions in San Francisco expansions while stripping Oakland care, service by service.
More than 100 hospital workers and families have already rallied in protest. Sign to demand UCSF stop moving critical services, restore care in Oakland, and meet directly with workers and families.
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Petition created on July 30, 2026