Meet 5 outstanding doctors who advanced the practice of medical care with their service at Kaiser Permanente.

Bowers has served as interim leader since February 2025.

She is the oldest national park ranger in the country with a legacy of representing Black shipyard workers on the home front.

Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing students learned a new philosophy emphasizing prevention, wellness, and integrated patient care.

Kaiser Permanente mobile health vehicles brought care to people, closing gaps in access.

Nursing pioneers lay the foundation for the future of Kaiser Permanente and the profession.

Learn how to be notified of earlier availability for certain types of appointments in our new scheduling system.Learn how to be notified of earlier availability for certain types of appointments in our new scheduling system.

The story of Kaiser Permanente's South Bay Medical Center finds its roots in filling care gaps for union members.

New medical offices will enhance the health care experience for members and are being built using environmentally sustainable methods.

This innovation in rooming-in allowed newborns to stay close to mothers while also being under direct medical supervision.

Environmentalism was a common practice at the Kaiser shipyards long before Earth Day.

A doctor shortage in the late 1960s and an innovative partnership helped what was then a novel care profession grow and thrive.

Chef Ann Foundation will use $275,000 grant for Colorado program to convert kitchen operations from processed foods to fresh, scratch-based meals.

Kaiser Permanente nurses have been saving lives on the front lines since 1942.

She served as a role model and inspiration to the women physicians and Asian American physicians and Kaiser Permanente employees who would follow.

Kaiser Permanente grants $100,000 to local food banks.

In Henry J. Kaiser’s shipyards, workers were judged by their abilities, not their disabilities. That spirit lives on today in Kaiser Permanente’s diverse workforce.

Groundbreaking male students diversify the Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing for the first time.

Kaiser Permanente’s co-founding physician spread prepaid care and the idea that doctors should help keep people healthy — not just treat them when they’re sick.

Ellamae Simmons, MD, worked at Kaiser Permanente for 25 years, and to this day plays a central role in how Kaiser Permanente embraces diversity and inclusion.

Third in a series marking Black History Month.

When polio epidemics erupted, pioneering treatments by Dr. Herman Kabat improved quality of life and care for patients nationwide.

Kaiser Permanente's Health Education Research Center and Health Education Library offered literature and audio-visual programs for all patients.

Kaiser was a major figure in the construction, engineering, and shipbuilding industries. In co-founding Kaiser Permanente, he helped transform American health care systems and care delivery.

Sidney R. Garfield, MD, and Henry J. Kaiser came together to pioneer an innovative health care model.