he Children's Health Center provides health care to children and
young people up to the age of twenty-one years old. Services included
are acute care, emergency care, and well-child care. Drop-in acute care
is available for children requiring evaluation of health status,
diagnosis and treatment of acute illness, preventative services, and
follow up. Routine immunization histories are maintained at the time
children are properly vaccinated. The Children's Health Center serves as
the off-hours Pediatric Urgent Care site for the Community Health
Network (CHN) and its affiliated partners.
The Teen Trauma Recovery Using Supportive Teamwork (TRUST) is
part of the Children’s Health Center. TRUST is the San Francisco General
Hospital and Trauma Center’s (SFGH) primary care adolescent health
clinic focused on caring for teens who are victims of violence in San
Francisco. TRUST provides comprehensive services including coordination
with multiple service providers and agencies such as Pediatrics, Trauma
Surgery, Mental Health, Wound Specialists, Physical Therapy, Social
Workers, SF Unified School District, and the California Children’s
Services (CCS). TRUST was started in 2005 to respond to the increasing
number of teenage patients with serious mental and physical
complications from violent traumatic injury.
