Griffin|Schake Works With Kaiser Permanente to Launch its Largest Hopsital
March 31, 2009
Kaiser Permanente opened its largest hospital today, a $600 million, 800,000-square-foot hospital complex in Los Angeles. The new Los Angeles Medical Center replaces the hospital next door that has served the Los Angeles community for more than 50 years.
This flagship hospital is a cutting-edge facility that will treat 750,000 patients annually and be home to the largest cardiac surgery center in the Western United States, a Level IIIc Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and an all electronic patient information and records system known as Kaiser HealthConnect. In this way, the hospital is an answer to President Obama’s call for all Americans’ health care information to be digitized in five years.
The hospital will serve as a showcase for Kaiser’s model of care, which focuses on prevention and new technologies to keep people healthier, thus creating an efficient system where maximum resources are directed to patients who do require care.
Media were invited to cover the day-long, multi-staged transition from the circa-1950s hospital to the new hospital next door.
>> Watch the KCBS 2/KCAL 9 story here.
>> Listen to KPCC’s coverage here.Â
>> Read the LA Times story here.
>> Read the Contra Costa Times story here.
