The Fetal Cardiovascular Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital assesses and manages fetal and pediatric heart disease. We have access to the latest technology for sophisticated imaging as early as the late first trimester.
The program is a joint service of the UCSF Pediatric Heart Center and the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center.
We provide urgent and elective fetal echocardiograms from 12 weeks to term to screen for structural, functional and rhythm-related fetal heart disease in at-risk or affected pregnancies, including indications of:
Our staff has extensive experience in providing unique assessment of first and early second trimester pregnancies. Our services also include:
Our goal is to provide optimum care for all pregnant women and fetuses in the region by sharing best practices learned by our clinicians. Our educational program is designed to enhance fetal cardiac assessment within routine fetal ultrasounds to improve prenatal detection of major structural heart disease, and to help doctors better care for their patients.
We offer:
The program also is continuing to research new and better techniques for helping women have healthier babies. Our research projects include:
Fetal Cardiovascular Program
505 Parnassus Ave., Third Floor, Room M-306
San Francisco, CA 94143-0214
Phone: (415) 353-1887
Fax: (415) 353-8675
Email: fetalheart@ucsf.edu
Last updated April 30, 2012
Public parking for an hourly fee at UCSF Medical Center is available in the seven-level Millberry Union Garage at 500 Parnassus Ave. There are two garage entrances — one on the north side of Parnassus Avenue and another on Irving Street, just east of Third Avenue. The garage is open 24 hours daily.
Another garage, at 350 Parnassus Ave., is open Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Metered street parking is rarely available.
Patients being admitted to the hospital may be dropped off at the circular driveway leading to the main entrance at 505 Parnassus Ave. This area also may be used to pick up patients who are being discharged.
For more information about parking at Parnassus, call Campus Parking Services at 476-2566.
Valet parking service is available at the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) at 400 Parnassus Ave. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The valet service is free but patients must pay regular parking fees. For more information about the valet service, call (415) 476-6200.
A UCSF "greeter" also is available at the ACC from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to assist patients find their way.
UCSF Medical Center is accessible via Muni streetcar line N-Judah*, which stops at Second Avenue and Irving Street, and the following Muni bus lines, which stop in front of the hospital:
Free UCSF shuttles travel between the Parnassus and Mount Zion campuses as well as other UCSF locations. For your convenience we have a Parnassus-Mount Zion Express Shuttle that leaves every 15 minutes.
The shuttle departs from Parnassus in front of the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library at 530 Parnassus Ave.
For more information about UCSF transportation, please call (415) 476-1511.
For more information about Muni visit, www.sfmuni.com.
* Wheelchair accessible bus routes
