Kaiser Opens State-of-the-Art Hospital in Oakland

OAKLAND, Calif. — Kaiser Permanente opened a new medical center on Tuesday in central Oakland, the headquarter city where the nonprofit health care system was founded nearly 70 years ago.

The new, 12-story, 349-bed Oakland Medical Center is directly across the street from the medical center it replaces. The hospital sits on the corner of Broadway and MacArthur Boulevard.

“This new building culminates a year-long capital program to keep our hospitals and medical offices state of the art,” said Gregory A. Adams, group president and regional president of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan Inc. in Northern California, in a statement. “The new medical center continues the long history we have had with the city of Oakland and renews our commitment to enhance and improve the health and well-being of our members, and of the community at large.”

The hospital features all private rooms with room service, Wi-Fi and pullout guest beds. It also contains a 24-hour ER with 52 private treatment bays, eight labor and delivery rooms and 14 inpatient operating rooms.

A special aspect of the new hospital is the full-service children’s hospital that operates within the general hospital. The hospital provides pediatric sub-specialty services and has a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and gathering areas specially designed for children.

Oakland Medical Center is the first in Northern California to have an intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging system, an advanced imaging technology that pediatric neurosurgeons use during brain surgery.

Patient rooms in the hospital will include the Get Well Network, an interactive electronic patient care board connected to a 42-inch plasma screen where patients can view television and patient-education videos, find the names of doctors and nurses, and read a care schedule.

The new facility joins a specialty medical office building next door, which opened Jan. 6 and offers 102 provider offices, six outpatient operating rooms, seven outpatient procedure rooms, a new parking garage, a lab and pharmacy. The medical campus is complete with five other medical office buildings nearby.

“Kaiser Permanente is the quality and service leader in Northern California today, and this state-of-the-art hospital will allow us to expand the excellence of our medical care,” said Robert Pearl, MD, executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, in a statement. “Offering cutting-edge adult and pediatric services, this facility will set the standard for technologically advanced hospital care in the East Bay.”