Kaiser

Introduction Kaiser Permanente (Kaiser) was founded in 1945. Also operating as Kaiser Foundation and The Permanente Medical Groups, this organization has an operating revenue of almost $51 billion. With over 9 million health plan subscribers, 37 hospitals, 611 medical offices, and 176,000 employees, Kaiser is an industry leader in integrated healthcare. In 2003, after several attempts to implement an information system (IS), Kaiser elected to hire a company to build an integrated set of systems

For the last five weeks research has been done on Kaiser Permanente, an organization that contains Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Permanente Medical Groups in eight regions. Since its inception in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has become the largest not-for-profit, integrated health care delivery system in the United States, serving 8.6 million members in eight regions: Northern and Southern California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, the Mid-Atlantic States, Ohio, and the Northwest

Introduction Kaiser Permanente is a unique healthcare organization. To call it an insurance company would only be telling half the truth and to call it a hospital would also be telling half the truth. What is unique about Kaiser is that it is an integrated system. What this means for their members is that can receive coordinated care. When a member sees a doctor, they can many times get labs, or x-rays, and even prescriptions in the same building. Kaiser controls ever aspect of care. What this means

1. Kaiser Permanente starting in 1945 when Sydney Garfield and Henry Kaiser came together to form the healthcare system still used today. During the Industrial Revolution, many workers were found to have healthcare needs and not all were insured. In collaboration to help these members, Kaiser and Garfield created a system in which employers paid a set monthly premium and physicians joined a prepaid group practice in efforts to ensure care for all employees. This evolved Kaiser Permanente into the

Kaiser Permanente s a company that was registered to deliver healthcare services to individuals who are geographically distributed. The organization is dedicated to increasing the medical quality for its members and their immediate environment. The firm has been operating for sixty years, it evolved from programs that were operating in the industrial sector especially shipyards, construction, and steel mill workers in the late 1930s (Kaiser, 2015). In 1945 it was opened for the enrolment of the public

their website. For the sake of this assignment, I will analyze Kaiser Permanente’s website and I will briefly explain why I chose Kaiser.

Kaiser Permanente as a System Introduction Kaiser Permanente (KP) was founded in California in 1945. It is one of the largest non-profit healthcare organizations in the United States, made up of three entities: the Kaiser Foundation Hospital, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and the Permanente Medical Groups. It currently serves about 9.1 members within the following states: California, Colorado, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and Georgia. With a few

the not for profit Kaiser Permanente health-care company on February 1, 2017 for 1.8 billion dollars. Although Group Health is a cooperative and Kaiser Permanente is a nonprofit healthcare company, they have similar views on how they run their companies because both have missions to put their members and employees first. This is something that the articles stressed because this merge is going to affect thousands of members and employees. I plan on focusing on the process Kaiser Permanente had when

Henry J. Kaiser and Sidney R. Garfield founded Kaiser Permanente in 1945 after the derivation of Kaiser industrial companies insurance consortium called Industrial Indemnity in the 1930s. The industrial heath care program was put into place for construction, shipyard, and steel mill workers for the Kaiser industrial companies as a workers’ compensation obligation. Dr. Sidney Garfield saw the construction of the Colorado River Aqueduct Project as an opportunity to treat sick and injured construction

nonprofitmaking organization dedicated to health care. This paper discusses the readiness of Kaiser Permanente as a health care organization to respond the future health care needs of citizens. This paper also contains its strategic plan that addresses issues relating to network growth, nurse staffing, resource management and patient satisfaction. Addressing the Health Care Needs of Citizens in Next Decade Kaiser Permanente was established at the time when there was challenge of delivering medical care