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Executive Leadership
The administration offices of UCSF Medical
Center and UCSF Children's Hospital are located at 500 Parnassus
Ave., San Francisco, CA 94143-0296.
The medical center's top administrator is Mark
R. Laret, chief executive officer.
Mark R. Laret, chief
executive officer
Mark R. Laret, chief executive officer of
UCSF Medical Center, leads one of the most distinguished health care
institutions in the world, one consistently
ranked by U.S. News & World Report as among the
nation's 10 best hospitals. UCSF Medical Center, including UCSF Children's Hospital,
offers highly specialized care in a premier university setting, where patients benefit
from research and education programs that are defining new horizons in medicine.
The medical center includes 900 doctors, two hospitals
with a total 640 beds, and clinics in more than 75 specialties. These services generate
more than $1 billion in revenue a year, employ 6,000 people and log 750,000 patient visits each year.
Laret's career in health care management spans more than 25 years. He served for
15 years at UCLA Medical Center in marketing and strategic business development and as chief
executive officer of UCLA Medical Group, which had a membership of 900 doctors. From 1995 to 2000,
he was CEO of UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, Calif. There, he led a financial and operational
turnaround, engineered improvements in quality of care and patient satisfaction and was
named 1999 Orange County "Manager of the Year" by the Society for Advancement of Management.
He became CEO of UCSF Medical Center in April 2000 when the center had a $60 million
annual loss and employee layoffs. Within five years, that loss turned into a $70 million gain.
Strong financial performance has enabled the nonprofit medical center to
aggressively pursue the expansion and modernization of its facilities and equipment,
including major investments in electronic medical record systems to improve patient safety.
Laret has recruited an accomplished executive team and established an
incentive program for all employees based on three primary objectives — improving
the quality of medical care delivered year over year, improving patient satisfaction
and meeting annual financial targets.
Laret actively participates in national health policy
issues through his membership in three national organizations — the Accreditation Council for
Graduate Medical Education, which accredits all residency training programs in the country;
the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the Association of American Medical Colleges,
concerned with federal policy and funding of medical care, education and research;
and the University Healthsystem Consortium, an alliance of America's elite university medical centers.
On the state and regional level, Laret serves on the executive committee of the
Hospital Council of Northern and Central California and has testified before state
legislative committees on health care challenges in California. He has chaired
the San Francisco section of the hospital council and co-chairs the San Francisco
African American Health Disparity Project, working to improve the health status of African
Americans and their access to care.
Committed to supporting community efforts to fund medical research,
Laret was the San Francisco corporate chair of the 2005 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's
"Walk to Cure Diabetes" and is the San Francisco corporate chair of the 2007 "Heart Walk"
of the American Heart Association.
Laret serves on the board of the international charity Mercy Ships,
which delivers medical care on hospital ships to indigent communities abroad,
with a particular focus on equatorial Africa.
He earned a bachelor's degree at UCLA and a master's degree at the University
of Southern California. Both degrees are in political science.
Click here to contact Laret
or medical center administration.
Speeches and Commentaries
Long-Term Facilities Plan for UCSF Medical Center, Jan. 18, 2006
Powerpoint Presentation
Challenges
Facing UC Medical Centers, Sept. 15, 2005
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