"Hospital systems like Tuality are anxious to get out of the landlord business as increasing liability insurance costs and reduced Medicare and Medicaid payments put the squeeze on capital budgets. In response, hospitals are turning over their on-campus office buildings to niche real estate developers like Pacific Medical Buildings."


- National Real Estate Investor

PMB opens Pomerado Outpatient Pavilion on Pomerado Hospital campus


NEW MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING IS COMPLETED IN ONLY 365 DAYS

POWAY, Calif., May 2007 - Pacific Medical Buildings (PMB), a San Diego-based healthcare real estate developer, has completed the development of a new medical office building (MOB) in a very short timeline on the campus of Pomerado Hospital.

The five-story, 172,000 square foot medical office building in Poway, Calif. is located at 15611 Pomerado Road in Poway, Calif.

The project had a number of challenges, including extensive entitlement work and a complex environment impact report. PMB fast-tracked the design, contracting and construction process to deliver the completed facility in just 365 days.

PMB also created a two-part condominium and financing structure that allows the hospital to acquire its outpatient service floors if and when the funding becomes available.

The Centre for Health Care, a multi-specialty medical group, is the 74,000 square foot anchor tenant. The first two floors house a variety of outpatient services operated by the hospital including full-service imaging, a diabetes clinic, a women's center, wound care and an outpatient surgery center.

Pomerado Hospital is owned by Palomar Pomerado Health.

"We are proud of this new facility and proud of the way we fast-tracked the development and construction to meet critical deadlines," says Mark D. Toothacre, PMB President. "Despite a number of challenges this new high quality facility is bringing some very important services to the Poway community."

About Palomar Pomerado Health
Today Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH) is the largest healthcare district serving communities in an 800 square mile area and a trauma center that covers 1,440 square miles of South Riverside and North San Diego Counties. In addition to two hospitals, Palomar Pomerado Health offers home health care, surgery, skilled nursing, ambulatory care, behavioral health services, wound care, and community health education programs. When it comes to health it makes sense that patients come to the area's first and largest healthcare provider - Palomar Pomerado Health.

About PMB
PMB specializes exclusively in the development and management of medical office buildings, outpatient facilities and parking structures for hospitals, medical groups and universities. For more than 37 years, PMB's executives have led the industry in the development and management of medical care buildings, with 75 healthcare facilities constructed to date throughout the Western United States. The firm currently owns and manages more than 30 facilities totaling more than 2.5 million square feet, and has 12 more facilities under development that will total 750,000 square feet with 2,000 structured parking stalls. The total value of the firm's development projects exceeds $250 million. The San Diego-based firm also has offices in Honolulu; Los Angeles; Phoenix; Vancouver, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; and Nevada.

For more information call 800-472-1005.