Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is expanding in Sonoma County, Calif. The HMO leased and renovated approximately 30,000-sf in Rohnert Park to house offices for primary-care physicians and a pharmacy; the facility opened Feb. 20, 2003. In Santa Rosa, Kaiser has constructed a 60,000-sf medical office building on an 18-acre site north of Kaiser's existing campus. The facility will house pediatric and ophthalmology services and is expected to open by year-end.
Kaiser is planning to build an ambulatory care surgery center including occupational and sports medicine clinics. The emergency department of Kaiser's Santa Rosa hospital will be expanded and the hospital will increase its bed count with 60 additional beds. In Petaluma, Calif., Kaiser is building a second medical office providing specialty care that will total approximately 60,000 sf. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Kaiser is seeking 85,000 sf for a call center. Additionally, Kaiser recently leased two facilities in Catellus' Regatta Business Park in Richmond, Calif., a 50,885-sf reference lab and a 29,812-sf training facility.
