Kaiser Permanente Health Care
13652 Cantara St
Panorama City, CA 91402
Phone: (818) 375-1737
This a picture of the new hospital in Panorama City. It’s been open since March 08′. While the quality of care is excellent, the building itself has many faults.
- The rooms for extended stay have local television only, plus some random local tv stations.
- This made me extremely angry as a family member has been bed-ridden for over a week. It’s just not acceptable to expect people to watch the channel 9 news all day. If someone is sick, trying to recover, you should want to make their day enjoyable (as much as you can).
- While the floors are large, they have many blind spots.
- Talk about the architects use of the classic “Square”, this guy/girl really goes to town on the floors. Nearly every room, turn, and hallway is a sharp 90 degree turn. I’ve already heard nurses complain about it.
- Three Elevators for the building. If your not happy about waiting for an elevator, good luck! Not only do the elevators run slowly, but they make an incredible “BEEP!” on each floor. So much so, that you can hear it between floors just waiting in the lobby. And when I say BEEP, think 1980’s buzzer BEEP; not the digital beep we know and love.
- Food. I think this might tie in with #1, but really you need to make the patient’s stay AND their families stay enjoyable! The cafeteria is the worst i have seen in a long time. The food is old and prepackaged, much like if you went to prison (not that I would know). They do open the grill on weekdays near lunch time, which is actually very good. But if you get sick… god-forbid.. on a weekend, you’ll be running to IN-N-OUT, Carl’s, Macdonald’s, etc. They can’t hire someone to flip some burgers on the weekend? You got to be kidding me.
- One last note, most might not think about. Lighting and Sinks. They installed these sinks that motion detect your hands when you place an object in front of them. Good idea right? NOPE!, they did it all wrong, the sensor is too high, so when the water comes out it sprays all over the place. They didn’t install enough water heaters either! Showers are luke-warm at best. Also in the bathroom there is only 1 light. Why is this a problem? How about when you close the certain and want to see some shampoo go into your hand before you place it on your head…
Bad build, but great care. By the way, a 1 night stay at this hospital costs $11,000 a day. I’ll post the bill shortly. American health care, at 11k a day, you can see why it’s broken.
