OUT OF THE OLD, INTO THE NEW: KAISER CLOSES DOORS AT KIELY BOULEVARD FACILITY.

Byline: Leslie Griffy

Aug. 8--Doctors, patients and staff said a happy farewell to Kaiser Permanente's 40-year-old Santa Clara hospital Tuesday in a well-orchestrated move.

Nearly 100 patients -- from infants in the intensive care unit to adults admitted a few days before -- moved into Kaiser's new digs, a $700 million facility about a four-minute drive away from the old Kiely Boulevard site.

Ambulances -- 18 of them -- were parked in a staggered pattern in what was once the arrivals area of the old hospital. One ambulance took the first patient, an infant, at 6:35 a.m. The transfers continued until about 1 p.m.

Everything had been planned …