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Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California.Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, the organization was initially established to provide medical services at Kaiser's shipyards, steel mills and other facilities, before being opened to the ...
Kaiser Permanente is an example of a captive group model HMO rather than a staff model HMO, as is commonly believed. An HMO may also contract with an existing, independent group practice ("independent group model"), which will generally continue to treat non-HMO patients.
As a strike gets underway, Kaiser Permanente, one of the United States’ largest not-for-profit medical systems, says it has contingency plans in place so it can continue to provide safe, high ...
Kaiser Oakland Medical Center is a hospital in Oakland, California. It is located at the intersection of Broadway and West MacArthur Boulevard, immediately north of Downtown . It is the flagship hospital of Kaiser Permanente , the largest managed care organization in the United States , through its Kaiser Foundation Hospitals division.
The campus serves about 360,000 health care members in the area.
It is now known as the "French Campus" of Kaiser Permanente. [9] [10] St. Mary’s Hospital opened in San Francisco in 1857, on Rincon Hill at the northwest corner of 1st and Bryant Streets, not the French Hospital. [11] "Rincon Hill was really dubbed "Nob Hill" first, on account of the Nabobs, but of course they went over to Nob Hill" [12]
On Wednesday, thousands of unionized health care employees walked off the job after failed contract negotiations with their employer, Kaiser Permanente, a company whose business model is ...
L.A. Care partners include Kaiser Permanente. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1998, L.A. Care became involved in the Healthy Families program , California's version of the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), and then in 2003 launched L.A. Care's Healthy Kids program for children ages 0–5, funded in partnership with First 5 LA and the Children's Health ...