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San Francisco board condemns naming of local hospital for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan after they gave $75m toward a new trauma center San Francisco supervisors approved resolution Tuesday condemning the naming of city's public hospital for Mark Zuckerberg and wife Dr Priscilla Chan  The San Francisco General Hospital was renamed for the couple in 2015 after they couple donated $75million to help fund a new treatment center Resolution doesn't have force of law and does not require hospital to do anything But officials said it sends the message that San Francisco is not ...

San Francisco may 'condemn' naming hospital for Facebook CEO by Janie Har, The Associated Press Posted Dec 15, 2020 2:22 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 2:28 pm EDT A Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center sign is shown in San Francisco, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Supervisors in San Francisco will vote on a nonbinding and symbolic resolution to condemn the naming of the city's public general hospital for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 after he and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, donated $75 million for a new trauma center. Supporters of a condemnation say the Facebook...

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The measure passed 10-1, with Board President Norman Yee the only no vote. He said nonprofits often use naming rights to spur donations and while this involved city property, he could not support the condemnation without more of a policy discussion. Yee said he would support a move to remove Zuckerberg’s name and retain Dr. Chan’s name on the hospital. He was among several supervisors behind the 2015 resolution that approved the gift and name change. San Francisco, where Zuckerberg and Chan have a home, has increasingly soured on the social media behemoth, dismayed by the company's slugg...

Unable to Actually Change the Hospital's Name, SF Supervisors to Pass Resolution 'Condemning' the 'Zuckerberg' Part of SF General Unlike some publications around town, SFist mostly still calls the hospital SF General, because Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital — or, technically, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center — is just an awkward mouthful. But the SF Board of Supervisors was expected to pass a non-binding resolution Tuesday to "condemn" the renaming of the hospital five years after the renaming took place. Back in July we heard t...