Kaiser Permanente to Open Comprehensive Medical Centers
06/03/2011 - By Trey Ragsdale Kaiser Permanente to Open Comprehensive Medical Centers
The locations in Kennesaw and Duluth will expand specialty care servicesAs it continues to develop a more fully integrated care delivery system in Metro Atlanta, Kaiser Permanente of Georgia has announced major expansions at two of its current medical offices.
Additions to the TownPark and Gwinnett medical offices will create two, state-of-the-art comprehensive medical centers (CMCs). Both are scheduled to be completed by Spring 2012.
These outpatient facilities will provide Kaiser Permanente members with access to primary care and a full range of specialties, as well as expanded urgent care services in both locations. They support Kaiser Permanente’s goals of providing its members with high quality care that is convenient and affordable.
“In the past 18 months we’ve opened 11 new neighborhood medical offices, bringing the number of Kaiser Permanente medical facilities to 28 in Metro Atlanta,” said Rob Schreiner, MD, executive medical director for Kaiser Permanente of Georgia. “These new CMC’s complement those locations by providing hubs for the expanded number of specialties Kaiser Permanente members can access through The Southeast Permanente Medical Group (TSPMG).”
These new facilities will make it easier and more convenient for members in these communities to access the coordinated care that is Kaiser Permanente’s hallmark.
Kaiser Permanente is adding a 78,000 square foot, $47 million addition to its existing, 25,000 square foot TownPark medical office at 750 TownPark Lane in Kennesaw. The completed complex will house a broad range of services. Among those are internal medicine, pediatrics/adolescent medicine, family medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, dermatology, behavioral health, cardiology, nuclear medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, pulmonology and podiatry. It will also offer high end imaging and diagnostic services.
The health plan will build a 66,000 square foot, three-story addition to its existing 37,000 square foot Gwinnett medical office at 3650 Steve Reynolds Blvd. in Duluth. The cost is $52 million. This comprehensive medical center will offer internal medicine, pediatrics/adolescent medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, dermatology, behavioral health, cardiology, nuclear medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, pulmonology and podiatry, along with high end imaging and diagnostic services. Construction will also include a 240-space, two-story parking deck.
Along with adding capacity and access to specialty care, the CMCs will also allow Kaiser Permanente to extend its current evening and weekend urgent care services up to 24-hours at both locations.
To support the expansion and new medical offices, TSPMG, which treats only Kaiser Permanente members, has added more than 100 physicians in the past two years and plans to continue growing through 2014. For inpatient care, Kaiser Permanente will continue to partner with leading hospitals in Metro Atlanta.
