Kaiser to Build South Bay Hospital
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals is buying 36 acres in the growing suburban area of eastern Chula Vista to build outpatient offices and a 200-bed hospital.
Kaiser now has only one hospital in San Diego County, a 250-bed facility in Allied Gardens near Mission Gorge Road.
Situated in EastLake, a planned community north of Telegraph Canyon Road, the development will consist first of medical offices, to be started in 1993 and completed in 1995. Hospital construction will not begin until 1995, with completion three years later.
The $101-million project will first have to clear the city’s environmental and conditional-use permit process.
But Chula Vista’s city manager was enthusiastic Tuesday about the economic development that the medical center’s 2,000 jobs will mean.
“The community is excited that Kaiser has picked Chula Vista as the home of its new medical center,” said John Goss, city manager.
About 80,000 residents who now belong to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan will be served by the new medical center. Now planned at 500,000 square feet, the facility will be designed for easy expansion later, Kaiser officials say.
Communities that could add to the patient base there are EastLake, Rancho del Rey and the 25,000-acre Otay Ranch being planned by the Baldwin Co.
In June, Kaiser will open 18,000 square feet of medical offices in the EastLake Business Center as an interim step.
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