Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente

Headquarters (the Ordway Building) in downtown Oakland
Company type	Consortium of for-profit and not-for-profit entities.
Industry	Healthcare
Founded	July 21, 1945; 78 years ago (1945-07-21) in Fontana, California
Founders	Henry J. Kaiser Sidney R. Garfield
Headquarters	Ordway Building Oakland, California, U.S.
Number of locations	40 hospitals and 618 medical facilities (2022)
Area served	California Colorado District of Columbia Georgia Hawaii Maryland Oregon Virginia Washington
Key people	Greg A. Adams (Chairman & CEO) see section below
Services	Insurance, Hospital, Healthcare
Revenue	$100.8 billion USD (2023)[1]
Operating income	$329 million USD (2023)[1]
Members	12.5 million (2022)
Number of employees	235,785 employees (including 73,618 nurses and 24,605 physicians as of 2023)[1]
Parent	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
Subsidiaries	Geisinger Health System The Permanente Federation, LLC St Dominic's Hospital The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. Avivia Health Buenaventura Medical Group Inc Southern California Permanente Medical Group 1800 Harrison Foundation Kaiser Foundation Hospitals The Southeast Permanente Medical Group, Inc. Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, Inc. Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education
Website	kaiserpermanente.org kp.org

Kaiser Permanente (/ˈkaɪzər pɜːrməˈnɛnteɪ/; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. (KFHP) and its regional operating subsidiaries; Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; and the regional Permanente Medical Groups. As of 2023,^[2] Kaiser Permanente operates in eight states (Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia) and the District of Columbia, and is the largest managed care organization in the United States.^[3]

Kaiser Permanente operates 39 hospitals and more than 700 medical offices, with over 300,000 personnel, including more than 87,000 physicians and nurses.

Each Permanente Medical Group operates as a separate for-profit partnership or professional corporation in its individual territory, and while none publicly reports its financial results, each is primarily funded by reimbursements from its respective regional Kaiser Foundation Health Plan entity. KFHP is one of the largest not-for-profit organizations in the United States.

KP's quality of care has been highly rated^[4] and attributed to an emphasis on preventive care, its doctors being salaried rather than paid on a fee-for-service basis, and an attempt to minimize the time patients spend in high-cost hospitals by carefully planning their stay. However, Kaiser has had disputes with its employees' unions; repeatedly faced civil and criminal charges for falsification of records and patient dumping; faced action by regulators over the quality of care it provided, especially to patients with mental health issues; and faced criticism from activists and action from regulators over the size of its cash reserves.