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Kaiser Permanente is America’s largest not-for-profit health plan. It was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente is composed of Kaiser Foundation Health Plans (nonprofit corporations), Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation), and the Permanente Medical Groups (for-profit professional organizations).
For nearly 60 years, Kaiser Permanente has led and shaped improvements in the quality of American health care. Its voice has been at the national public policy table in every administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of more than 8.2 million members in California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente employs more than 140,000 technical, administrative, and clerical employees and 12,000 physicians representing all specialties.
Operating revenues for 2003 were $25.3 billion.
