About Us
Kaiser Permanente’s Mission
Kaiser Permanente exists to provide affordable, high-quality health
care services to improve the health of our members and the communities
we serve.
About Us
Kaiser Permanente is America’s leading integrated health plan.
Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit group practice prepayment program
headquartered in Oakland, CA. We serve the health care needs of more
than 8.3 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Today Kaiser Permanente encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation
Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their subsidiaries,
and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups.
Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 142,000 technical,
administrative and clerical employees and caregivers, and more than
12,000 physicians representing all specialties.
Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit
Improving the health of the communities we serve is core to who we
are as an organization. Kaiser Permanente has been fostering the improved
health of the communities we serve since our inception more than 60
years ago. Today we keep that tradition alive by focusing on four, broad
areas of work:
More on Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit
For more about Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit, we invite you
to download our brochure – Toward Total
Community Health. To see our programs in action, we invite you to
watch our videos.
