Kaiser Permanente has proposed building a major new hospital in San Francisco that, if approved, would replace its current medical center and be the health care giant’s first new hospital in the city in more than 70 years.
If the project gains city and state approval, it would convert the existing Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center at 2425 Geary Blvd. in the Anza Vista neighborhood to medical office buildings and build a new hospital across the street, at Geary and Divisadero Street, by 2033.
The facility would mark a major expansion in real estate and capacity, with 300 private patient beds in roughly 623,000 square feet, an expanded emergency department and a new parking garage at 350 St. Joseph’s Ave. The current facility, which opened in 1954, has 239 semiprivate beds in about 367,000 square feet…