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- Well, welcome back everybody.
I’m Tony Gale, Senior Project Manager
here at Capital Projects,
for Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center.
We’re in our fourth and final installment of
growing a healthier South Bay.
It’s exciting to see all the changes
that have occurred this past few months.
You can see that we’ve put in finishes,
we’ve got tile, and glass, and light fixtures.
It’s really, really, really exciting to see,
and I can’t wait to open it for the public.
I recently caught up with our
Executive Director, Lesley Wille,
and our Chief Administrative Officer, Bob Blair,
to learn more about what this hospital will mean
to our growing South Bay community.
We’re in The Wave Cafe right now,
where it has oceanic themes with surfboards
and waves on the walls, - [Lesley] It's really beautiful.
and I'm really excited about seeing this come to fruition.
I’m joined with Bob Blair, our Chief Administrative Officer,
and Lesley Wille, our Executive Director.
Welcome you guys.
- Thank you Tony.
- So, what we would like to know is
how this new replacement hospital
will affect our communities.
- You know, it’s exciting.
I mean, one of the things we’re really proud of
is that this facility is environmentally safe,
it’s environmentally friendly.
We’re excited about the materials we've used
in the building that are good for the environment.
I think it’s earthquake safe,
which is great for our patients and for our staff.
As amazing as this hospital is,
this is only part of our modernization efforts
in the South Bay, as you know, I mean,
we’ve got the Carson Medical Offices,
we’ve got a new Beach Cities Medical Offices in Manhattan Beach
that’s coming, and we're just so excited
about this facility and opening it. - That's great.
- Thank you very much, Bob.
- Lesley.
- One of the other great things about this community
is the number of jobs that
it’s actually provided in the community.
So many of the employees who actually helped build
the facility live locally,
so that’s just so wonderful for the community.
In addition, Kaiser Permanente continues,
and particularly in South Bay,
continues to provide community benefit grants
and funding to really improve the overall total health
of the community that we serve.
So, we’re very proud of that.
- Well that is wonderful on how it all comes together
to serve our communities.
- Thank you very much Lesley. - Thank you Tony.
- Thank you Bob.
- Thank you and your team, it's been great.
- Well, this project was possible
due to the magnificent team we had,
and the collaboration that took place.
Our team consisted of McCarthy, as the general contractor,
and HMC as the architect of record.
National Facilities Services represented Kaiser Permanente.
Together, we collaborated and really brought
together this magnificent hospital.
That type of teamwork is something
that will continue to translate into patient care
when we open this new building.
That patient-doctor relationship is truly a partnership,
and recently I met up with Dr. Barbara Carnes,
our Area Medical Director here at South Bay,
to hear a doctor’s perspective about what our patients
and visitors can expect from this new building.
Well, I’m joined by Dr. Barbara Carnes,
Area Medical Director here at South Bay.
We’re sitting right now in our new healing garden
for our new replacement hospital.
Dr. Carnes, could you tell us a little bit about
what excites you with our new facility?
- You know, there’s so many things that I'm excited about,
but probably the thing I’m most excited about Tony,
is the design.
The design of the hospital intentionally puts
our members front and center.
What I mean by that is,
we don’t have centralized nurses’ stations anymore.
Our nurses are going to be distributed
and much closer to the patient rooms.
They’ll have full visibility of the patient rooms.
The other thing I’m really excited about is,
and this is for our members,
as well as their families,
is that we're going to be demolishing the old hospital,
and with that we will be adding over 200 new parking spaces.
- Oh wow, that's great.
That is great, I'm sure the members are going to enjoy that.
Well, thank you very much, Dr. Carnes, for your time,
and joining me out here in our healing garden.
- Thank you.
- Well, there you have it.
Our new North Hospital tower is almost ready.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
We can't wait to open our doors and welcome you
to our new North Hospital, February 2015.
In the meantime, I’d like you to join me
in saying, "Be well and Thrive."
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