SAN JOSE — Kaiser Permanente has proposed a brand new San Jose hospital with nearly 300 beds that could spring up atop a parking lot a short distance from the health care 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 that is on file with San Jose city planners.
“Kaiser Permanente is constantly looking for opportunities to best meet the needs of our members in San Jose and support our community, while working to maintain affordable high-quality care and offer our employees an exceptional work environment,” Kaiser said in comments emailed to this email news organization.
The preliminary proposal itself was submitted to municipal planners to get feedback on the concept of the new hospital and how it could be developed.
The medical center is described as a “replacement hospital,” according to a summary of the proposal that was submitted to city officials.
The hospital will accommodate 297 beds in a building with a total area of ​​250,000 square meters, the preliminary proposal states.
For more than a year, the parking lot has been used to set up COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, as well as flu shots.
The location is a short distance from the long-standing Kaiser Medical Center at 250 Hospital Parkway.
That existing medical center contains 247 licensed beds, according to a post on the state Department of Health Access and Information website.
In 2007, Kaiser opened a new 373-bed hospital in Santa Clara. In 2014, Kaiser opened a new 315-bed hospital in Oakland.
A timeline for construction of the new hospital proposed for south San Jose was not immediately available.
“We can confirm that evaluating potential new or replacement sites is part of our normal business operations,” Kaiser Permanente said in the email. “We have no further information to offer at this time.”
Kaiser Permanente eyes big new Bay Area hospital with hundreds of beds
