About Kaiser Permanente

Facts and Statistics: Kaiser Permanente Colorado

 Denver/Boulder Southern Colorado  CPMG  

OVERVIEW

Is an integrated health care delivery system operated by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado and the Colorado Permanente Medical Group, PC, which together have provided comprehensive health care to Kaiser Permanente Colorado members since July 1, 1969. Colorado Permanente Medical Group physicians provide health care for Kaiser Permanente members.

Kaiser Permanente Colorado:

• Is Colorado’s oldest and largest group-practice health care organization. As of May 2011, there are 533,000 Kaiser Permanente members in the six-county Denver/Boulder metropolitan area and the four-county Southern Colorado service areas.
  
  
• Is a major Colorado nonprofit health plan with more than 5,900 health plan employees.
  
  
• Owns and operates 19 medical offices and three behavioral health and chemical dependency offices throughout the Denver/Boulder area. Operates one medical office in Colorado Springs, and one in Pueblo.
  
  
• Stores medical records electronically on its state-of-the-art Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect® system, which gives providers 24-hour secure access to patient information at all medical offices.
  
  
• Provides coordinated, full-service inpatient health care services at these contracted hospitals to Denver/Boulder members: Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital and The Children’s Hospital. In addition to emergency services at its plan hospitals, members may receive emergency care at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Joseph ER, and these HealthONE locations: Sky Ridge Medical Center, Swedish Medical Center, Centennial Medical Plaza and Swedish Southwest ER.
  
  
• Provides care in Southern Colorado at the Briargate Senior Health Center, in Colorado Springs, that provides primary care for Medicare Senior Advantage members as well as laboratory, radiography, optical, pharmacy and audiology services for all Kaiser Permanente members. Also provides care at Pueblo North Medical Offices, in Pueblo. The facility offers primary care, lab, X-ray and pharmacy services for all Kaiser Permanente members.
  
  
• Provides health care in the Southern Colorado service area through a network of more than 800 primary care and specialist physicians. Hospital affiliations include the facilities of Memorial Health System and Penrose-St. Francis Health Services in Colorado Springs; Parkview Medical Center and St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center in Pueblo; and St.Thomas More Hospital in Canon City.
  
  
• In 2010, directed more than $90 million to community benefit programs to improve the health of all Coloradans. The Medical Financial Assistance program provided nearly $16.6 million in care to more than 10,000 patients in need in our medical offices, partner hospitals and safety net clinics.
  
  
• Sponsors educational theater programs providing creative health education in school and community settings for people of all ages. The interactive programs emphasize healthy eating and active living, bullying prevention and positive youth engagement. Nearly two million people have been entertained and educated by Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s Educational Theatre Program presentations since 1985.
  
  
• Works with organized labor unions in the most ambitious Labor Management Partnership of any industry in the United States. Kaiser Permanente’s Labor Management Partnership is designed to deliver high-quality care and service to members, improve organizational performance, and actively involve the unions and individual workers in decisions that affect the workplace.
  
  
• Is one of the regions in a national program serving more than 8.6 million members in California, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Washington — and Colorado.
  
  
• Was founded by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and Sidney Garfield, MD. The pair demonstrated the viability of prepaid group practice health care on projects such as the Los Angeles Aqueduct and Grand Coulee Dam, and during World War II in the construction of Liberty Ships.
  
  
• Kaiser Permanente was opened to community enrollment in 1945.