Simi Valley Hospital of California has celebrated the opening of the Thakkar Family Emergency Pavilion, a $41 million expansion project. It is named for the hospital’s husband-and-wife medical team of Dr. Umakant Thakkar and Dr. Irma Harriman, who has donated $1 million to kick off the fundraising effort for the ER expansion project.
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The largest element of the project, the emergency pavilion adds 5,500 square feet to the existing Emergency Department and increases the number of patient rooms from 10 to 18. The department has a two-bay triage area, a family room and a paramedic radio room.
Adventist Health, the hospital’s parent company and donations from the community helped fund the expansion. Thakkar and Harriman had made the pledge in July, 2010.
Thakkar leads one of the largest nephrology groups in Southern California and has several successful Kidney Dialysis centers. He has recognized the business opportunities in the field of nephrology and developed a business model that has brought him success while practicing medicine in a way that provides clinical benefit.
Thakkar worked hard and was accepted into an accredited program in Internal Medicine at the Jersey City Medical Center. He worked with the doctors in the field of nephrology – a subspecialty of internal medicine which studies and treats disorders of the kidneys.
Thakkar continued his research at the Sepulveda VA hospital in Los Angeles. In 1980 he became an Asst. Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine and was made Chief of Nephrology at the affiliated Olive View Medical Center. In 1981, he started private practice in Simi Valley. In 1982, Tucker approached Simi Valley Hospital with the idea of building a chronic renal dialysis center across the street from the hospital.
Soon his medical practice was thriving, Dr. Irma Harriman joined him in practice and then in marriage. He started a new life with a new home he has renovated to serve as headquarters for his growing business. With the help of his wife and extended family, new dialysis centers were established, more nephrologists joined his medical group and he continued to expand his business.
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Kidney Center, Inc. was born, the head quarters moved from his garage to a modern facility in Simi Valley – offering management services to the medical group, chronic dialysis centers, acute inpatient hemodialysis-plasmapheresis business.
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