About the author  ⁄ Erik Moore, S.E., Aniket Borwankar, Sarah Outzen, P.E., Jay Love, S.E.

Erik Moore is an Associate with Degenkolb Engineers and is active in their Health Care group (emoore@degenkolb.com)

The Seton City Medical Center is located south of San Francisco in Daly City. The hospital, originally named Mary’s Help Hospital, was built in 1965 for the Daughters of Charity to support an underserved community in northern San Mateo County. The hospital remains dedicated to serving this community today but has fallen behind in meeting the California state-mandated seismic life safety performance requirements. As a result, the facility is under a tight 2023 deadline to meet the baseline seismic performance milestone set by the state to ensure their building can safely remain open for patients.

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