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Tacoma: Pierce: 205: II Military Health System 1944 Mary Bridge Children's Hospital: Tacoma: Pierce: 72 II [2] MultiCare Health [9] 1955 Mason General Hospital: Shelton: Mason: 25: IV Washington Rural Health Collaborative: Mid-Valley Hospital: Omak: Okanogan: 30 IV 1963 MultiCare Allenmore Hospital Tacoma: Pierce: 130 IV [2] MultiCare Health ...
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California.Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, the organization was initially established to provide medical services at Kaiser's shipyards, steel mills and other facilities, before being opened to the ...
Group Health was officially registered as a corporation in Washington on December 22, 1945. [8] Group Health's founders included Thomas G. Bevan, then president of lodge 751 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at Boeing; Ella Willams, a leader in a local chapter of The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry; Addison Shoudy, R.M Mitchell, and ...
Shorter strikes have grown in popularity in recent years, with occasionally great success, like the 2023 strike at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. That’s opposed to the more traditional ...
Provider-sponsored health plans can form integrated delivery systems; the largest of these as of 2015 was Kaiser Permanente. [30] Kaiser Permanente was the highest-ranked commercial plan by consumer satisfaction in 2018 [31] with a different survey finding it tied with Humana. [32]
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St. Joseph Medical Center was called St. Joseph Hospital when it was established by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia in 1891. [1] As a part of the non-profit and faith-based Franciscan Health System, the mission of St. Joseph Medical Center is "to nurture the healing ministry of the Church by bringing it new life, energy and viability in the 21st century.
The earliest form of HMOs can be seen in a number of "prepaid health plans". In 1910, the Western Clinic in Tacoma, Washington offered lumber mill owners and their employees certain medical services from its providers for a premium of $0.50 per member per month. This is considered by some to be the first example of an HMO.