Kaiser Permanente’s new Redwood City Hospital is “about 98-percent complete” say construction officials, and a recent brief tour of the new building reveals a welcoming environment for KP members and the Kaiser Permanente doctors, nurses, and staff.
The new building opens in December, 2014.
All throughout the building, large floral graphics cover walls, frame nurse stations, highlight patient doorways and rooms, and act as space-dividers in the elevator lobbies.
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Extra-large windows provide natural light, and walls are painted in warm, soothing colors designed to enhance patient recovery.
Nurse work stations and reception areas are largely complete, bordered in grays and wood tones. Private patient rooms include wall-mounted panels for medical devices at the head of the bed, private baths, and pull-out guest beds for overnight visitors.
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Diagnostic and surgical equipment is in place or being activated for KP Redwood City’s high-level neuroscience-neurosurgery center; workstations are being completed in the expanded Emergency Department, which has 24 private treatment rooms, and occupies a large portion of the hospital’s first floor.
When construction work finishes, there will be several months of staff training before the new hospital opens for patients.
