Kaiser Permanente is enhancing its Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, Oregon, with a new hospital tower. It will be the first fully electric hospital in Oregon. Being fully electric will reduce the carbon footprint of the facility while limiting the amount of fossil fuels burned, resulting in improved air quality in the immediate vicinity of the hospital. The tower is expected to open in 2029.
Construction of the new facility will begin in early 2026, with site-clearance work starting in late 2025. The current hospital building will remain in use until the new hospital tower is built and open on the east side of the Sunnyside Medical Center campus, ensuring a seamless transition for patient care. The A Wing, which houses the Brookside Center, a residential mental health and addiction medicine treatment facility, will remain.
Key features of the planned 7-story, 615,000-square-foot hospital tower include:
- 100% private patient rooms
- In-room telemedicine capabilities, advanced robotics and image-guided surgical equipment
- Greater emergency room capacity
- Easy navigation and wayfinding
- An emphasis on natural lighting, green spaces, walking paths and healing gardens
