Facebook CEO Donates $75 Million to San Francisco Hospital

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco General Hospital Foundation is getting a historic grant of $75 million from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan’s donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (The General).

The General is the city’s only trauma center. The grant is the largest single gift the foundation has received since it was established in 1994. It is also believed to be the largest private gift from individuals to a public hospital in the U.S.

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Alan Korth

Dewberry has hired Alan Korth, AIA, LEED AP, as a justice practice segment leader. Korth is responsible for further developing and growing the presence of Dewberry’s justice services in California. He will focus on detention, corrections, courts and public safety projects.

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Medical Laboratory Handling System

The EXCM mini-H gantry is a revolutionary desktop handling system for medical laboratory automation. The planar surface gantry system is fast, accurate, modular and flexible. It is also plug-and-play for quick and easy start-up. Typical applications include transfer of micro-well plates, liquid dispensing/pipetting with the addition of a Z-axis, sample preparation and transport, barcode-based sample identification, sample distribution, and aspirating, incubating, dispensing, and archiving of samples.

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