Kaiser Permanente
At approximately $31 billion in revenues, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals (KFHP/H) is America's largest not-for-profit health maintenance organization. Named after Henry Kaiser, the company has grown from a 12-bed hospital into an integrated health-delivery system serving more than eight million members in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Kaiser Permanente operates in eight regions covering Northern California, Southern California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Ohio, Northwest (Oregon and Washington) and Mid-Atlantic States (Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia). Care to Kaiser Permanente health plan members is provided primarily through Kaiser owned-and-operated hospitals (31), medical clinics and over 11,000 physicians who are partners or employees of the Permanente Medical Groups. There are some 136,000 employees nationwide. Kaiser Permanente is a national and internationally recognized innovator in the provision of high quality, coordinated, evidence based health care. A significant volume of services in several regions is also provided through contracted networks of community hospitals, physicians and other providers.
Kaiser Permanente's eight regions are comprised of separate but closely cooperating organizations. These organizations are:
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plans: Nonprofit, public-benefit corporations that contract with individuals and groups to provide HMO and other health benefit plans. Health Plans contract with Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and medical groups to provide services.
- Kaiser Foundation Hospitals: A nonprofit, public-benefit corporation that owns and operates hospitals in California, Oregon and Hawaii; owns outpatient facilities in several states; provides or arranges hospital services; and sponsors charitable, educational and research activities.
- Permanente Medical Groups: Partnerships or professional corporations of physicians - one in each Kaiser Permanente region. The full responsibility for providing and arranging necessary medical care is assumed in each region by the Permanente Medical Groups.
Kaiser Permanente has a long-standing and strong commitment to its employees and to organized labor. The Labor Management Partnership (LMP) involves KP's collaboration with over 30 unions representing over 70,000 KP employees. The LMP is the largest labor management collaboration in the US and involves a commitment to collaboration in the pursuit of employment security, quality care and organizational performance.
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