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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 ...
Kaiser Permanente broke ground on their Sunset Medical Office on 50 acres (20 ha) in what was then unincorporated Washington County in August 1986. [1] [2] The facility, a 41,000-square-foot (3,800 m 2) two-story brick building designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, was built at a cost of $5.2 million and opened in 1987.
The NPI is a 10-position, intelligence-free numeric identifier (10-digit number). This means that the numbers do not carry other information about healthcare providers, such as the state in which they live or their medical specialty. The NPI must be used in lieu of legacy provider identifiers in the HIPAA standards transactions.
University of Utah [16] 660 Huntsman Mental Health Institute: Salt Lake City: University of Utah: 173 Intermountain Medical Center: Murray: Intermountain Healthcare [1] 504 Jordan Valley Medical Center: West Jordan: Steward Health Care System [13] 133 Jordan Valley Medical Center West Valley Campus: West Valley City: Steward Health Care System [13]
The company's headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. Colorado-based SCL Health and Intermountain Health merged in 2022. Colorado-based SCL Health and Intermountain Health merged in 2022. The combined system employs more than 64,000 people.
As of 2017, 11 insurance companies offer plans through Covered California, however depending on the county in which an individual lives, the number of insurers can vary from two to seven. [32] A 2015 California Healthcare Foundation study found that the number of hospitals in an insurance network did not significantly affect the quality of care ...
Following heavy competition with California e-Health Collaborative (CAeHC) for designation as California's statewide HIE entity, both organizations were turned down by the state government in December 2009; [16] large stakeholders such as Medicity Inc. and Kaiser Permanente subsequently followed suit and withdrew financial support.
The largest hospital networks headquartered in the United States are included in the table below. The name, headquarters location, number of hospitals, funding type and founding year are given for each network. [38] There were 6,146 hospitals in the United States in 2020, of which 2,240 were managed by the largest 45 hospital networks. [39] [40]