KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS | PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUPS | KFRI

Kaiser Permanente is a cooperative endeavor among representatives of medicine and management, sharing responsibilities for organizing, financing, and delivering quality health care services to its members on a prepaid basis. Kaiser Permanente is comprised of three entities. They are:

Kaiser Foundation Health Plans.
Nonprofit, public benefit corporations that contract with individuals and groups to arrange comprehensive medical and hospital services. Health Plans contract with Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and the Permanente Medical Groups to provide hospital and medical services. Several of the Health Plans include more than one Permanente Medical Group.

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

A nonprofit, public benefit corporation that: owns and operates community hospitals in California, Oregon and Hawaii; owns outpatient facilities in several states; provides or arranges hospital services; sponsors charitable, educational, and research activities.

Permanente Medical Groups

Partnerships or professional corporations of physicians—one in each of Kaiser Permanente's six regions and the California Division. The full responsibility for providing and arranging necessary medical care is assumed in each region by a Permanente Medical Group. Physicians at Kaiser Permanente work together in self-governed and self-managed multispecialty groups rather than as individuals in widely disbursed private offices. They are, in effect, local medical groups responding to local needs. Permanente physicians devote his or her full attention to providing quality care to Kaiser Permanente members.

KFRI

DOR works closely with Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, a part of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. DOR’s Director reports to the Associate Executive Director for Quality and Inpatient Delivery System, who in turn reports to the Executive Director of the Northern California Medical Group.

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