Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente reopened two medical office buildings in Santa Rosa, Calif., and Rohnert Park, Calif., following wildfires that broke out across Northern California last week. However, the area hospital — Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center — remains closed, The Press Democrat reports.
Officials reopened the office buildings at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday after wildfires engulfed nearby areas. The medical office building in Santa Rosa will offer urgent walk-in care, family medicine and pediatric services, with additional services becoming available throughout the week. The Rohnert Park medical office building will offer urgent care and walk-in appointments. The main pharmacies at both locations will also reopen Tuesday.
More than 100 Kaiser employees, including physicians and nurses, lost their homes to the flames, according to the report. Kaiser officials assisted staff by transferring them to the health system's other Northern California locations in Rohnert Park and San Rafael, Calif., so they could focus on providing care to patients rather than on what they lost.
"It feels good to be back in my regular building," Kelly Bastoni, MD, a family medicine physician who works in the Santa Rosa office building, told The Press Democrat. "There's something about [the facility] having been so close to the fire but having survived. It feels like a resilient place."
Kaiser officials have not slated a date to reopen the hospital. The nearby Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital revealed plans to reopen at 7 a.m. Tuesday. The facility will offer full inpatient and emergency care, with elective procedures to resume "at a later date," according to the report.