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Last updated on May 22, 2008

Kaiser Permanente exists to provide affordable, high quality health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

Description:
Kaiser Permanente aspires to be the world leader in improving health through high quality, affordable and integrated health care. We will be distinguished by our strong social purpose, physician responsibility for clinical decision making, and our enduring partnership between our health plan and our medical groups.

History:
Briefly, the history of Kaiser Permanente begins in 1933 when Sidney R. Garfield, MD established a prepayment health plan and hospital for workers constructing the Los Angeles aqueduct in the Mojave dessert. In 1938 Henry Kaiser persuaded Dr. Garfield to set up a group-practice prepayment plan for construction workers on the Grand Coulee Dam in Wahington state. Membership is later opened to workers and families.

In 1942 at the request of Henry Kaiser, Dr. Garfield established group practice prepayment plans for workers and their families at Kaiser-managed shipyards in the San Francisco Bay area and Vancouver, Washington, as well as at a Kaiser steel mill in Fontana in Southern California. In 1945 Health Plans were opened for community enrollment. In 1955 Kaiser Permanente is reorganized to make the partnership between the professions of medicine and management more effective, and to provide individual physicians with a financial stake in the program's future. This reorganization created the framework and foundation for Kaiser Permanente's present structure.

In 1995 Kaiser celebrated its fiftieth anniversary as a public health plan.

Contact person: Peggy Hill, Volunteer Manager, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: 510-307-3184

Address:

901 Nevin Avenue Richmond, CA 94801 (See a map)

Web Site: http://richmond.kaiser.org

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