Kaiser Permanente’s $1.3 billion replacement campus in downtown Oakland includes a 12-story patient tower with 670,000 square feet of space, two medical office buildings (MOBs), a central utilities plant and a 1,219-space parking garage.
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New $1.3 billion Oakland Medical Center replaces system’s original facility
By John B. Mugford
For more than 70 years, the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system and insurance provider has been delivering care at its longtime flagship hospital at Broadway and MacArthur Boulevard, just blocks outside of downtown Oakland, Calif.
Even though the old Oakland Medical Center is now closed and will be decommissioned during the next year or so, the system’s flagship facility remains at the same intersection in the provider’s hometown.
Replacing the 349-bed old Oakland Medical Center is the new 349-bed Oakland Medical Center, which opened in early July. And even though the bed count has remained the same and the location just steps away, the new hospital represents a giant leap forward in the way care is provided to patients, according to Kaiser Permanente officials.
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