KAISER’S FONTANA HOSPITAL BEING BUILT TO MEET TOUGHER QUAKE GUIDELINES
By John Mugford
Kaiser Permanente recently began construction on a new 314-bed replacement hospital in Fontana, Calif., located about 25 miles east of Los Angeles.
A groundbreaking was held in May for the new hospital, which would have 481,000 square feet of space and be a replacement for the existing Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center.
The new hospital would have two seven-story towers; it is being built on the current campus, just 25 feet away from the existing hospital, which will be converted into an outpatient services building. Also planned for the campus is a 50,000 square foot medical office building (MOB).
The replacement hospital is being designed to meet California’s seismic safety guidelines for hospitals, otherwise known as Senate Bill (SB) 1953. The general contractor is the Southern California office of McCarthy Building Cos. The designer is Los Angeles-based HMC Architects.
The structure of the future hospital would feature a plaster and curtain wall exterior with a structural braced-frame core in order to comply with SB 1953.
The replacement hospital is scheduled for completion in early 2013 and is slated to house a variety of specialty services, including a cardiac surgery department, a 51-bed emergency department, pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit (ICU), an inpatient dialysis unit, pediatrics, a regular ICU, labor and delivery, cardiac cath lab and surgery unit.
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