About Kaiser Permanente

Facts and Statistics: Kaiser Permanente of Colorado

 Denver/Boulder Southern Colorado  CPMG  

COLORADO PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP

Colorado Permanente Medical Group, P.C., contracts with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado to form Kaiser Permanente Colorado, the state’s oldest and largest group practice health care organization, founded in 1969.

The Colorado Permanente Medical Group:

• is a corporation of physician shareholders with a board of directors composed of elected physicians. The board oversees the overall function of the medical group and delegates management to physician managers from within Colorado Permanente Medical Group.
  
  
• is Colorado’s largest medical group practice within a health care organization, and employs 844 regular status physicians representing all medical specialties and major sub-specialties. There are 644 specialty care physicians and 200 primary care physicians. Colorado Permanente Medical Group physicians provide care for Kaiser Permanente members.
  
  
• attracts a majority of physicians from established medical practices. Nearly 60 percent of physicians who joined the group in 2008 came from established practices.

CPMG is composed of 43 percent female physicians and 57 percent male physicians. The medical group:

• averages five to six interested and qualified applicants for each opening. It includes physicians who have practiced with Kaiser Permanente for an average of nine years, ranging from one to 33 years with the medical group.
  
  
• includes physicians who are all board eligible in their specialties. As of Dec. 31, 2008, 96 percent of the physicians were board certified. Board certification, which consists of rigorous tests in medical specialties, is required to become a CPMG shareholder.

The Colorado Permanente Medical Group hosts several continuing medical education classes each month for physicians to share and learn best practices. In 2008, the CPMG's education department accredited 250 programs. In fact, nearly 600 physicians attended and returned evaluations for at least one CPMG-accredited CME program last year. Colorado Permanente Medical Group physicians donated nearly 25,000 hours each year to medically related community service programs and teaching medical students, interns, residents, and other health professions’ students.

All affiliated physicians in the Colorado Region are contracted through CPMG and have to meet the same rigorous standards as CPMG physicians.