302 Silver Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94112 | 415.334.2500 | www.jhsf.org
302 Silver Avenue | San Francisco, CA 94112 | 415.334.2500 | www.jhsf.org
On-site specialty clinics ensure the Jewish Home's ability to provide the vast majority of medical and dental services on our campus.
This allows our residents to avoid long, uncomfortable rides to off-site doctors' offices, unreasonable waits and, more importantly, enhances better-coordinated care.
Residents receive quality care and services by simply visiting one of the fully-staffed clinics located in the Rosenberg Family Center.
An on-site audiologist performs hearing tests, orders hearing aids, and facilitates repairs on a weekly basis.
Once a week, a rehabilitative audiologist trouble-shoots hearing aid problems, and helps hearing-impaired residents improve their communication abilities through the use of assistive devices and the development of communication techniques and strategies.
The Home has frequent visits from an excellent cardiologist. Our nurse practitioner staff has been trained to perform necessary checks of pacemaker functions.
The Jewish Home has on-site dentists three days a week. Our dentists have special expertise in denture work, including one who has special fellowship training in geriatric dentistry. We also have an on-site dental hygienist.
A dermatologist visits on a monthly basis, thus avoiding the need for our residents to be transported off-site. Utilizing our own microscope, we can examine skin scrapings. Biopsies and minor dermatological procedures can generally be provided on-site.
A gynecologist is available on-site once a month.
The Jewish Home is pleased to offer an experienced licensed practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who can provide acupuncture, acupressure, and herbal medicine to those residents who choose to supplement the “western” medicine dispensed by our medical staff. Also offered as a complement to traditional medical care is Healing Touch, an energy-based therapeutic approach to healing that uses gentle, non-invasive hands-on touch and energy techniques to balance and align the human energy field. Our program is truly “integrative,” as our Chinese medicine practitioner works closely with our geriatricians and psychiatrists to provide a collaboration and integration of services.
A neurologist performs on-site consultations once a month.
Two nurse practitioners assist the physicians in the delivery of primary care and manage several of the specialty clinics. Residents have greater access to medical care because the nurse practitioners, unlike physicians, are on-site all day. The nurse practitioners also specialize in a variety of particular problems related to aging, including incontinence evaluations, ear wax removal, and the evaluation and management of psychiatric problems.
The Jewish Home is staffed with experienced and talented nurses, many with special expertise in geriatric, psychiatric, or long-term care nursing.
An ophthalmologist (eye doctor) is available on-site once a week.
An optometrist (eye doctor) is available on-site once a week to evaluate and assist residents who need eyeglasses.
Our on-site pharmacy is staffed with pharmacists who are readily available for consultation to nursing, physicians, and residents.
We offer a full spectrum of on-site skilled and restorative physical, occupational and speech therapies.
The physician’s assistant is on-site most afternoons, to provide additional medical coverage when the physicians are not readily available.
Two excellent podiatrists are on-site twice a week.
On-site psychiatrists are present at least four days a week, and on call every day. We have a specialized care unit licensed as an acute gero-psychiatric hospital, providing intensive specialized psychiatric care for our residents, while being open to the general community.
Many common X-rays can be done directly at the Jewish Home. Our radiology technician is on-site five days a week.
A urologist is available on-site twice a month.
We offer on-site physicians’ coverage six days a week. A physician is always available by phone for each resident.
