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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / ckojima@staradvertiser.com
@Caption1:Jolaine Hao, Kaiser Permanente nursing supervisor, stands in the new
reception area of the Kaiser clinic at Pearlridge Center.
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Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is unveiling its new $12 million clinic today at Pearlridge Center in Aiea.
The 7,000-square-foot center will open Oct. 4 and offer family medicine and pediatrics, as well as a pharmacy and laboratory services. Kaiser eventually plans to expand the clinic to 12,000 square feet.
A dozen full-time employees will staff the clinic in Pearlridge Uptown at 98-1005 Moanalua Road.
The state’s largest health maintenance organization, which serves nearly 222,000 members at the Moanalua Medical Center and Clinic and 18 clinics statewide, is investing roughly $320 million over five years to expand its facilities across the islands.
In addition to Pearlridge, Kaiser is also opening this month a Maui Rehabilitation Specialty Center for occupational and physical therapy and neurology, as well as expanding the Koolau Clinic in Kaneohe, slated for completion in October.
The company also is building a 40,000-square-foot medical office building in North Kona scheduled for completion in mid-2014. And it recently expanded the Mauka Tower at Moanalua Medical Center.
The HMO said reinvestments into its facilities contributed in part to losses of $820,000 in the second quarter of this year.
