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News release: Colorado - Denver/BoulderJuly 14, 2004 For more information, call: Big camera requires big construction move at Kaiser Permanente Franklin Street Medical Offices Denver, CO – How do you relocate a three-ton camera from the fifth floor of a medical office building to the first floor? You blow a hole in the side of the building, use a crane and lower it from up in the air to ground level. The move of Kaiser Permanente's nuclear medicine camera required such measures. Contractors with Adolfson and Peterson, Inc. moved the camera Thursday, July 15, 2004. Nuclear medicine is used as a diagnostic tool. A regular x-ray provides one snapshot of a particular part of the body. Nuclear medicine provides a look at how organs are functioning. Patients receive an injection of nuclear material that the organs absorb. That material is then picked up by the camera and gives physicians a better idea of what is happening in the body. The most common uses include bone scans, heart scans, lung scans and thyroid scans. Moving the high-tech camera is part of Kaiser Permanente's $60 million renovation, relocation, and remodeling project of the Franklin Medical Offices. It's also part of the health care provider's expansion plan that includes opening three new medical offices including the Rock Creek Medical Offices in Lafayette and the Ken Caryl Medical Offices this December and the Highlands Ranch Medical Offices in the spring of 2005. The projects are part of Kaiser Permanente's efforts to keep health care convenient for its 416,000 members in metro Denver and Colorado Springs. Traffic around the medical campus should not be interrupted by the move. Kaiser Permanente scores among the top 10 health care organizations in the United States for clinical quality as rated by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. In the Denver metro area, care is provided by a coordinated team that includes physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, mental health counselors and physical therapists. In the Colorado Springs area, Kaiser Permanente cares for its members through an affiliated network of community-based physicians and other health care providers.
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