Kaiser Comes to Diamond Bar

Kaiser building medical office facility
By Rodney Tanaka Staff Writer Wed-June 20, 2007

DIAMOND BAR - Kaiser Permanente is expanding within the San Gabriel Valley, building a 31,050-square-foot medical building in Diamond Bar.

The Diamond Bar Medical Offices, at 1336 Bridge Gate Drive, will house 12 physicians and medical care providers in family medicine, pediatrics and ob/gyn, along with laboratory, radiology and pharmacy services.

Work began in April and is expected to take about a year to complete. Kaiser Permanente held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday.

"The groundbreaking ceremony enables us to celebrate the long-awaited start of our Diamond Bar Medical Offices. We are proud to partner with the city on this project and look forward to its completion, which is projected for April 2008," Dr. John Bigley, area medical director of Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, said in a written statement.

"The new medical offices will enable us to better serve our growing membership in this area."

Diamond Bar residents go to Brea, West Covina, Baldwin Park or other Kaiser Permanente offices for service.

"This is an opportunity for people to get medical care closer to home," Diamond Bar Mayor Steve Tye said.

Kaiser Permanente, founded in 1945, serves the health care needs of 3.3 million members in Southern California.

Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region includes about 50,000 technical, administrative and clerical employees and caregivers and more than 6,000 physicians.

Diamond Bar residents and others will benefit from this quality medical center being built in the city, Tye said.

"We're excited that Kaiser has chosen Diamond Bar," he said.

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