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
Attending physicians are on-call 24 hours.
Our quality staff of healthcare professionals and on-site specialty clinics ensure our ability to deliver high standards of care to our residents.
From the chief nursing executive, through assistant directors of nursing, registered nurses, nurse managers, licensed vocational nurses to certified nursing assistants, the goal is to provide residents with the highest standards of care.
Physicians are at the Home daily, and are on call 24-hours a day. All medical staff are geriatric specialists, working under the supervision of an on-site full-time medical director. The medical staff is complemented by Nursing, which employs more than 410 RNs, LVNs, nurse managers, and certified nursing assistants.
The Jewish Home’s Nursing department aims to enhance the residents’ independence and well-being by promoting their optimal level of functioning, and by developing supportive, caring interactions within a professional context.
As part of the interdisciplinary team identifying and addressing the individual needs of each resident, the nursing staff coordinates and implements the plan of care requirements.
Nursing provides gerontological education to staff through orientation programming, staff development, and clinical consultations. Courses cover advanced gerontological approaches to healthcare.
Jay Luxenberg, M.D.
Dr. Jay Luxenberg is an internal medicine specialist with a Certificate of Special Competence in geriatric medicine. He is a clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where he participates in the training of medical students, medical residents, and fellows training to be geriatricians. He trained at San Francisco’s Mount Zion Hospital, and did a Medical Staff Fellowship at the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. His research involved Alzheimer’s disease and changes in the brain associated with healthy aging.
Dr. Luxenberg is the author of many medical publications, and serves as the website editor for the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA).
The Home’s medical director is a world-class authority in the field of gero-psychiatry, brain aging, and dementia.
