Kaiser Permanente is a titan of the managed health care industry. Established in 1945, it has grown to enormous proportions, serving approximately 9 million members through the efforts of 180,600 employees. Such gigantic proportions and wide arrays of services necessitate complex management. The organization has succeeded in establishing management that works "from the top down" with mixed results. Assessment of the Various Management Levels and Their Role in Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente

In Georgia, close to forty of Kaiser Permanente members are African-American, in Hawaii over half of Kaiser members are either of Asian or Hawaiian descent, and in Southern California twenty-four percent of members are Latino, with an additional twelve percent of members in the region identifying as African-American (Chong 2002). This diversity demonstrates a strong commitment to cultural awareness and the respect for each individual patient that Kaiser holds

Introduction Kaiser Permanente represents the biggest not-for-profit integrated healthcare network in the US, having a membership of more than 11.8 million within Washington D.C. and 8 other states. Instituted in the year 1945, Kaiser Permanente -California covers Southern and Northern California. It is a triple-entity pre-paid holistic system; the 3 entities, which are distinct though interlinked, are: a healthcare scheme which covers insurance risk, a system of hospitals, and clinical physician

WHY WAS IT A SMART Management MOVE? There are several reasons that this commitment and plan provided a smart management move on the part of the organization. One of the first things the HMO did once the plan was announced was to begin challenging other health care foundations and organizations to provide similar services to their communities. Kaiser is large enough that it can provide a $100 million plan to the public

Kaiser Permanente - Marketing Forces and Diversification Kaiser Permanente shares the concerns of other American hospitals regarding competing effectively with other hospitals while constantly improving quality of care. Kaiser is unique, however, in that its scope and resources allow it to mount an aggressive, nationwide marketing campaign directed at least theoretically to every American. Though it is difficult to reduce the success of Kaiser's marketing activities to numbers, Kaiser certainly shows

Kaiser Permanente (N. California) NCQA Accreditation Kaiser Permanente (Northern California) NCQA Accreditation Accreditation is a comprehensive evaluation process in which a health care organization's systems, processes and performance are examined by an impartial external organization -- an accrediting body -- to ensure that it is conducting business in a manner that meets predetermined criteria and is consistent with national standards (Iglehart, 1996). The 2010 federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for use