Kaiser Permanente Expanding in Duluth

Kaiser Permanente of Georgia announced a $52-million expansion at its Gwinnett medical office in Duluth that will create a state-of-the-art comprehensive medical center (CMC). The Duluth CMC is scheduled to be completed by spring 2012.

The Kaiser Permanente expansion will include a 66,000-square-foot, three-story addition to its existing 37,000-square-foot office at 3650 Steve Reynolds Blvd.

The Duluth CMC will offer internal medicine, pediatrics/adolescent medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, dermatology, behavioral health, cardiology, nuclear medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, pulmonology and podiatry, as well as imaging and diagnostic services. A 240-space, two-story parking deck will also be built.

The outpatient facilities will provide Kaiser Permanente members with access to primary care, a full range of specialties, and expanded hours for urgent care.

“In the past 18 months we’ve opened 11 new neighborhood medical offices, bringing the number of Kaiser Permanente medical facilities to 28 in metro Atlanta,” said Rob Schreiner, MD, executive medical director for Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, in the June 3 announcement. “These new CMC’s complement those locations by providing hubs for the expanded number of specialties Kaiser Permanente members can access through the Southeast Permanente Medical Group (TSPMG).”

TSPMG, which treats only Kaiser Permanente members, has added more than 100 physicians in the past two years and plans to continue growing through 2014. For inpatient care, Kaiser Permanente will continue to partner with leading hospitals in metro Atlanta.