Alameda County’s COVID-19 mask mandate has expired but these local healthcare providers are still requiring everyone to wear them.
Kaiser Permanente
Update: Kaiser mental health workers reach a tentative agreement
The nearly 2,000 therapists will participate in a two-day ratification vote starting Tuesday evening.
Kaiser medical office building opens in West Berkeley. Here’s what it looks like inside.
Medical services include adult and family medicine, OBGYN and pediatrics.
‘Next-generation’ Kaiser medical center to open in West Berkeley in May
Berkeley has about 58,000 Kaiser members but, until now, has never had a medical center in the city. Ahead of its opening, we look at what it will offer.
Kaiser is building a $14M COVID-19 lab in Berkeley to process 10,000 tests a day
The lab is under construction in a Second Street warehouse. It will open in June.
Kaiser Permanente puts Berkeley carpentry shop to use making face shields
In just two weeks, carpenters who usually make furniture delivered 11,800 face shields for doctors and nurses to use immediately at local medical facilities.
‘This is like a tsunami coming down on us.’ East Bay health workers say they are unprepared as COVID-19 cases climb
Healthcare workers are concerned about a shortage of personal protective equipment, especially N95 masks.
Man, 80, has first lab-confirmed community-spread COVID-19 case in Berkeley
The patient is recovering in isolation, but his experience is another indication that the novel coronavirus is spreading throughout Berkeley.
Berkeley Kaiser Permanente offices could open by 2021 after council vote Tuesday
Officials approved a new Kaiser Permanente medical center on San Pablo Avenue after property owner Wareham agreed to give four months of free rent to several of its struggling tenants who have to move.
Berkeley businesses may get ousted to make way for a parking lot for Kaiser
Wareham Development had plans to raze the businesses to create parking for a planned Kaiser medical office facility. ZAB said that is not the best use of the land and nixed the application.
Developers donate to little-known Berkeley homeless fund
Some of Berkeley’s biggest developers, concerned about homelessness, have donated to the city fund. At least two of them did so while Berkeley was considering their projects.
Kaiser Permanente looks to build new Berkeley medical campus
This week, the Berkeley City Council approved a West Berkeley zoning change for half a parcel that may allow Kaiser to open a new medical facility at Parker and 10th streets.