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About Kaiser Permanente ins.
"As a health care organization in the 21st century, we have a mission--to provide quality care for our members and their families, and to contribute to the well-being of our communities. See how we dedicate ourselves to this mission.
Kaiser Permanente ins is the largest nonprofit health plan* in the United States, serving 8.2 million members in 9 states and the District of Columbia. We are an integrated health delivery system, which means that we provide and coordinate the entire scope of care for our members, including:
- preventive care
- well-baby and prenatal care
- immunizations
- emergency care
- screening diagnostics
- hospital and medical services
- pharmacy services
- providing assistance to the uninsured and special populations
- training new health professionals
- introducing new delivery methods into the health care field
- developing and sharing better ways of caring for patients
A tradition of community involvement
Health care organizations, including Kaiser Permanente, have become a main feature of many political campaigns and have received a great deal of media scrutiny.
As a service to our members and health care consumers in general, we offer these answers to frequently asked questions about medical care. We hope that this provides the information you need about important health care issues, and how Kaiser Permanente provides care.
Enter Harold Hatch, an engineer-turned-insurance-agent. Hatch approached Dr. Garfield with the idea that insurance companies pay a fixed amount per day, per covered worker, up front. This would solve the hospital's immediate money troubles, and also let Dr. Garfield put one of his pioneering medical ideas into practice: emphasizing prevention. By keeping people healthy and treating them early on to prevent more serious problems later-rather than merely treating illness and injury-Dr. Garfield introduced a new kind of care.
And so, along with preventive care, prepayment was born. For only 5 cents per day, workers received this new form of health coverage. For an additional 5 cents per day, workers could also receive coverage for non-job-related medical problems. Thousands of workers enrolled, and Dr. Garfield's hospital became a financial success. But this was just the beginning.
At Kaiser Permanente, we understand that traditional health care-treating illness-isn't enough. We encourage our members to thrive, no matter what stage of life they are in. Whether it's preventive care, health education classes, or appropriate treatment, we support good health by providing personalized care every step of the way. We want our members to receive the kind of care that we would expect for ourselves and our families. That's why we work hard to design programs that measure the quality of the health care we provide. " - kaiserpermanente.org