Cudahy : Kaiser Begins Building New $8-Million Outpatient Clinic

Construction began last week on Kaiser Permanente’s new outpatient clinic at Elizabeth Street and Atlantic Boulevard in Cudahy.

The $8-million project in the city’s redevelopment area calls for a two-story, 59,000-square-foot clinic, said Lydia Becerra, Kaiser Permanente spokeswoman. The clinic will house 32 physicians whose specialties will include family practice, pediatrics, nutrition, obstetrics and gynecology. The clinic also will include a pharmacy and X-ray laboratory, she said.

Kaiser has operated a similar clinic in Huntington Park for 25 years, Becerra said, but unlike its other facilities, the company does not own the building. Once the Cudahy clinic opens sometime next summer, the Kaiser clinic in Huntington Park will be closed, she said.

City leaders said they are pleased that Kaiser is building in Cudahy because the property tax generated by the sale of the property will bolster the coffers of the Redevelopment Agency, and the presence of the clinic could revive Atlantic Boulevard as a main commercial strip. “I think it’s going to bring people to Cudahy who will use Cudahy’s businesses,” Councilman Joseph Fregeau said. “We look forward to a lot of good things coming to Cudahy because of Kaiser.”