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Kaiser Permanente Adding Medical Offices

Kaiser Permanente — Panorama City Medical Center is planning to build a new 72,000-square-foot medical office building. The building is slated to be built directly adjacent to the new medical center, which was completed in 2008. The new South Specialty Building will house the 12 clinical departments, including nuclear medicine, mammography, pulmonary and respiratory care, pain management, infusion care, gastroenterology, infectious disease and the blood lab. The project remains subject to the approval of the Kaiser Permanente Board of Directors, which is expected in the spring. The hospital filed plans for the building with the city Planning Department on Oct. 4. Officials were scheduled to go before the Panorama City Neighborhood Council on Thursday, Dec. 1, to make their case for the new building. The outcome of the meeting was not known at press time. Dennis Benton, executive director of the facility, said the four-story building was needed to accommodate the clinical departments that were left in an older facility when the new hospital building was completed. “The idea was to give those departments new space — and as importantly — the right space to meet future demand for services.” The hospital hopes to begin construction in the summer of 2012 and complete the project in early 2014. — Judy Temes

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