Kaiser Permanente recently opened a new 12-story, 349-bed hospital in Oakland, Calif.,  directly across the street from the medical center it replaces, according to an article on the Medical Construction & Design website.

The Oakland Medical Center has all private rooms with room service, Wi-Fi and pull-out guest beds. It has a 24-hour emergency department with 52 private treatment bays, eight labor and delivery rooms and 14 inpatient operating rooms. 

The facility is the first in Northern California to have an intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging system, an advanced imaging technology that pediatric neurosurgeons at the hospital will use during brain surgery, the article said.

Patient rooms feature the “Get Well Network,” an interactive electronic patient care board connected to a 42-inch plasma screen. Patients can view television programs and patient-education videos, find the names of doctors and nurses and read a care schedule. They can also order room-service meals using the small bedside keyboard.

On the first floor entrances and in each elevator lobby, an electronic “way-finding” board helps members and visitors find people and destinations in the hospital, in English, Spanish and Chinese.

Read the article.