Construction of new Kaiser Permanente Fontana Replacement Hospital is 95 percent complete

The new 490,000-square-foot Kaiser Permanente Fontana Replacement Hospital is now 95 percent completed and is in the home stretch of final exterior and interior construction.

The hospital, which is scheduled to open in 2013, is being built by McCarthy Construction and is designed by HMC Architects.

The new hospital will be a cutting-edge acute care medical facility which will serve the Inland Empire with 314 beds and a 51-bed emergency department.

On the heels of the opening of Kaiser Permanente's Ontario Medical Center last fall, the Fontana Replacement Hospital will have similar patient-centric design features to create a healing environment for patients in which to heal in, Kaiser officials said.

Every patient room will be private with a window for natural sunlight, there will be a beautiful outdoor courtyard and patients will enjoy room service-style meal delivery, giving them the flexibility to order food when they are actually hungry.

Additionally, medical specialty services will include: Cardiac Surgery Services, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Inpatient Dialysis, Intensive Care Unit, Labor & Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, NICU level III, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics and Surgery.

"The new Fontana Replacement Hospital will allow us to care for patients in a new environment which patients will find comforting and healing at a first-class, medical facility with the latest healthcare innovations and medical technologies," said David Quam, MD, area medical director for the Fontana & Ontario service area. "The Fontana Medical Center is a flagship provider of compassionate and quality healthcare to residents in the Inland Empire and is led by expert physicians and medical staff who are committed to providing the best care."

Looking ahead to 2013, one way that the new Fontana Replacement Hospital will celebrate its grand opening is with a commemorative historical look at its early humble beginnings, which started in the high desert as a prepaid health plan for Kaiser Steel employees and then moved in 1943 to the Kaiser Steel Corporation in Fontana. An historical book accounting the medical center's many milestones in patient care will be published when the new hospital opens.

"We will be celebrating 70 years of care to this community when the new

Fontana Medical Center opens in 2013," said Greg Christian, executive director for the Fontana and Ontario Medical Centers. "Fontana is really the birthplace of Kaiser Permanente's prepaid integrated care delivery system. Mr. Henry Kaiser's Health Care partnership with Dr. Sidney Garfield has led to the nation's largest Health Maintenance Organizations and a measured leader in quality, service, technology and innovation. We are excited and honored to keep this legacy moving and in a direction that provides on-going award-winning and affordable care."

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