SAN JOSE — Kaiser Permanente has proposed a brand-new hospital in San Jose with nearly 300 beds that could sprout atop a parking lot a short distance from the healthcare titan’s existing medical center.
The new medical center would be built at 284 Hospital Parkway, a site that is currently a surface parking lot, according to a proposal on file with San Jose city planners.
“Kaiser Permanente is continuously looking for opportunities to best meet the needs of our members in San Jose and support our community, while working to keep high-quality care affordable and offering our employees an outstanding work environment,” Kaiser said in comments emailed to this news organization.
The very preliminary proposal was filed with municipal planners to obtain feedback on the concept of the new hospital and how it might be developed.
The medical center is being described as a “replacement hospital,” according to a summary of the proposal that was filed with city officials.
The hospital would accommodate 297 beds in a building that would total 250,000 square feet, the preliminary proposal states.
For more than a year, the parking lot has been used to administer COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, as well as flu shots.
The site is a short distance from a long-time Kaiser medical center at 250 Hospital Parkway.
This existing medical center contains 247 licensed beds, according to a post on the state Health Care Access and Information Department website.
In 2007, Kaiser opened a 373-bed new hospital in Santa Clara. In 2014, Kaiser opened a 315-bed new hospital in Oakland.
The timing of the construction of the new hospital proposed for south San Jose wasn’t immediately available.
“We can confirm that evaluating potential new or replacement sites is part of our normal business operations,” Kaiser Permanente stated in the email. “We have no further information to offer at this time.”
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