San Francisco Nurses Protest the Zuckerberg Hospital's Name California Today

The entrance of the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is seen in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The entrance of the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center is seen in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Photo: Laura Morton / Special To The Chronicle Photo: Laura Morton / Special To The Chronicle Image 1 of / 33 Caption Close San Francisco Nurses Protest the Zuckerberg Hospital's Name 1 / 33 Back to Gallery

It has not been a good year for the Mark Zuckerberg name, as Facebook has fallen deep into a series of privacy scandals over allowing millions of users’ personal data to be improperly exploited.

And in San Francisco it’s become a particular flash point. Here, the Zuckerberg name is visible on one of the city’s most iconic institutions and one where privacy is part of the compact: the 146-year-old general hospital. After a record-setting $75 million gift from Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, in 2015, the general hospital was renamed Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

Now, in light of Facebook’s recent controversies, a group of nurses are saying the name makes patients wary. And they have renewed their efforts to have it removed.

“We are in charge of keeping our most vulnerable people private and protected,” said Heather Ali, who works at the hospital in nursing administration. “Now people wonder, ‘How much is my privacy protected at a hospital with that name on it?'”

Megan Brizzolara, a nurse at the hospital, said the Zuckerberg name “scares” patients.

Renaming the hospital was one of the conditions of taking the $75 million gift and was approved with a vote by the city’s Board of Supervisors.

“Look it’s a double-edged sword, and I totally get the loyalty to the name as it was historically, but this is a thing that’s between the donors and the Board of Supervisors completely,” said Brent Andrew, the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s chief communications officer.

Some on the board at the time now question their decision.

“Had we known what we know now, perhaps we wouldn’t have accepted the funds from Zuckerberg,” said John Avalos, the former supervisor.

On Saturday, about a dozen current and former nurses held a small demonstration outside the hospital, led by Sasha Cuttler, a nurse.

Guy Vandenberg, another nurse, came down in scrubs and on one placard wrote a diagnosis (“malwareberg”) and on another sketched out a fake prescription: “Uninstall Zuckerberg.”

At the end, Cuttler walked to the front of the driveway, where a metal sign welcomes guests to the hospital. With a roll of blue masking tape, piece by piece, they taped over the “Zuckerberg.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.