CITY FUNDS FOR KAISER? PALMDALE MEDICAL CLINIC MAY OBTAIN $750,000 ASSIST.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - Palmdale city officials are considering providing a $750,000 assistance package to help Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. develop its $16.7 million east Palmdale medical center. Mayor Jim Ledford said he favors helping Kaiser because of the medical services and good-paying jobs the clinic will bring Palmdale. Any industry bringing in 100 jobs would get similar city help, he said. ``They're bringing nurses, doctors, jobs to our city,'' Ledford said. The assistance package will be considered by the City Council at its meeting tonight. The assistance package includes forgiving $550,000 in various city development fees and $200,000 toward street, sidewalk A Microsoft service that was launched in 1997 to provide online arts and entertainment guides on the Web for major cities worldwide. In 1999, Microsoft sold Sidewalk to Ticketmaster, which continued to provide guides, ticketing and other information to the MSN network. and other improvements for the property at Avenue S and 45th Street East. The medical center is expected to be open in 2003. Kaiser Permanente is building a 48,000-square-foot medical center that will be staffed with 24 full-time physicians and will employ more than 100 people. The medical center will offer family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics pediatrics (pēdēă`trĭks), branch of medicine dedicated to the attainment of the best physical, emotional, and social health for infants, children, and young people generally. , pharmacy, laboratory, radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. , mammography mammography, diagnostic procedure that uses low-dose X rays to detect abnormalities in the breasts. The early diagnosis of breast cancer made possible by the routine use of mammography for screening women increases a woman's treatment alternatives and improves her and ultrasound ultrasound or sonography, in medicine, technique that uses sound waves to study and treat hard-to-reach body areas. In scanning with ultrasound, high-frequency sound waves are transmitted to the area of interest and the returning echoes recorded services. It also will contain a health education center consisting of a library, a health store, three family education rooms and four conference rooms, all in a space measuring 2,003 square feet. The medical center will occupy five acres of a 14-acre site, leaving plenty of room for expansion, Kaiser Permanente officials said. Although Palmdale has no hospital, the medical center will be the second major health facility to be established in the city. Earlier this year, Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital opened a clinic at Palmdale Boulevard and 40th Street East. The city provided an assistance package of $1 million to Antelope Valley Hospital to help with that project. CAPTION(S): map Map: Kaiser Permanente Clinic |
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