On July 21, 1945, Henry J. Kaiser and Dr. Sidney Garfield offered the health plan to the public, changing how families experienced preventive and integrated care.
Throughout his career, Dr. Van Brunt applied computers and databases in medicine and health research, supporting new investigators and new areas of research.
Experiencing the Kaiser Permanente health plan led labor unions to support and promote the health plan after World War II for accessible and preventive care.
Medicaid recipients should have high-quality care, high levels of satisfaction, and manageable costs. Kaiser Permanente’s integrated model of health care and coverage can help achieve these goals.
The last published work of Morris F. Collen, MD, one of Kaiser Permanente’s original founding physicians, was published almost exactly a year after his death at age 100.
In a desert hospital during the Great Depression, Betty Runyen overcame challenges and help shaped Kaiser Permanente’s values of patient-centered care.
The Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing sculpture near Kaiser Oakland hospital is a reminder of its legacy of disruptive innovation by 1,065 nurse graduates.
In 1946 Henry J. Kaiser Motors purchased half a square block in downtown Oakland to distribute Kaiser and Frazer automobiles and Graham Paige farm equipment.
Shortened in the 1970s led Kaiser Permanente to offer prenatal classes and encouraged father participation in a family-centered care program when hospital stays.