Kaiser Permanente

Corporate includes the Kaiser Permanente national leadership team, as well as staff and program leads who support our regions in a variety of business areas, including quality, finance, brand management, communications, government relations, community benefit, compliance, human resources, health plan operations, hospital operations, legal, and technology

Corporate also supports programs such as our Community Benefit efforts and the Care Management Institute, which synthesizes research and clinical knowledge collected across the organization in order to more effectively manage care.

Corporate fills a crucial role, coordinating and providing critical services and support to our medical centers in order to facilitate the care process. Together, we design the technologies, create the systems, orchestrate the resources, set the policies, and deliver the innovative strategies needed to help Kaiser Permanente save lives and improve the well-being of our members and communities. And it takes every type of person—in every conceivable role—to maintain, support, and grow our mission.

Roles in Corporate include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

* Human Resources

* Information Technology

* Clinical Systems Support

* Compliance

* Health Plan Operations

* Finance, Audit, Procurement

* Communications

* Community Benefit, Research, and Health Policy

* Legal

* Hospital Operations

There has been a particular focus in debate on the KPNC, the largest of the eight regional entities.

This is a consortium of three separate but interdependent groups: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals are integrated with independent physician group practices called Permanente Medical Groups. The health plan is the insurance component of the organisation, while the hospitals and medical groups provide all clinical services.7 To the public these hospitals and general practitioner type facilities are seen as one...