Kaiser Permanente, the Glossary

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1. 128 relations: ABC News (United States), African Americans, American City Business Journals, American Medical Association, Arbitration in the United States, Associated Press, BBC News, Bernard Tyson, Biobank, Black Mountain (near Los Altos, California), Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Blue Shield of California, Business, California, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Colorado, Colorado River Aqueduct, Cone Health, Consortium, Consumer Watchdog, Corporate spin-off, COVID-19 pandemic, Crain Communications, Cupertino, California, Delaware, Department of Health and Social Care, Desert Center, California, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Downtown Oakland, Ebola, Epic Systems, Family medicine, Fee-for-service, Fontana, California, Form 990, Fortune (magazine), Foundation (nonprofit), Geisinger Health System, George Halvorson, Georgia (U.S. state), Grand Coulee Dam, Group Health Cooperative, Hawaii, Health care, Health maintenance organization, Health policy, Henry J. Kaiser, Hospital, IBM, ... Expand index (78 more) »

2. American companies established in 1945
3. Health maintenance organizations
4. Healthcare in California
5. Healthcare in Colorado
6. Healthcare in Georgia (U.S. state)
7. Healthcare in Hawaii
8. Healthcare in Los Angeles
9. Healthcare in Oregon
10. Healthcare in Washington (state)
11. Henry J. Kaiser
12. Kaiser Permanente hospitals

ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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American City Business Journals

American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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American Medical Association

The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.

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Arbitration in the United States

Arbitration, in the context of the law of the United States, is a form of alternative dispute resolution.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bernard Tyson

Bernard J. Tyson (January 20, 1959 – November 10, 2019) was an American health executive.

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Biobank

A biobank is a type of biorepository that stores biological samples (usually human) for use in research.

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Black Mountain (near Los Altos, California)

Black Mountain is a summit on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains of west Santa Clara County, California, south of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, and west of Cupertino; it is within the Palo Alto city limits though not near the developed part of the city.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, also known as BCBS, BCBSA, or The Blues, is a United States-based federation with 34 independent and locally-operated BCBSA companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 115 million people as of 2022. Kaiser Permanente and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association are health maintenance organizations.

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Blue Shield of California

Blue Shield of California is a mutual benefit corporation and health plan founded in 1939 by the California Medical Association. Kaiser Permanente and Blue Shield of California are health insurance in the United States.

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Business

Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Division of Occupational Safety and Health

The Division of Occupational Safety and Health of California (DOSH, but more commonly known as Cal/OSHA) is an agency of the Government of California established by the California Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1973.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado River Aqueduct

The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).

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Cone Health

Cone Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Kaiser Permanente and Cone Health are hospital networks in the United States.

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Consortium

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

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Consumer Watchdog

Consumer Watchdog (formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights) is a non-profit, progressive organization which advocates for taxpayer and consumer interests, with a focus on insurance, health care, political reform, privacy and energy.

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Corporate spin-off

A corporate spin-off, also known as a spin-out, or starburst or hive-off, is a type of corporate action where a company "splits off" a section as a separate business or creates a second incarnation, even if the first is still active.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Crain Communications

Crain Communications Inc is an American multi-industry publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with 13 non-US subsidiaries.

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Cupertino, California

Cupertino is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Department of Health and Social Care

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Desert Center, California

Desert Center is a census designated place in the Colorado Desert in Riverside County, California.

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Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O., or in Australia DO USA) is a medical degree conferred by the 38 osteopathic medical schools in the United States.

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Downtown Oakland

Downtown Oakland is the central business district of Oakland, California, United States.

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Ebola

Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses.

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Epic Systems

Epic Systems Corporation (commonly known as Epic) is an American privately held healthcare software company.

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Family medicine

Family medicine is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body.

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Fee-for-service

Fee-for-service (FFS) is a payment model where services are unbundled and paid for separately.

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Fontana, California

Fontana is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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Form 990

Form 990 (officially, the "Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax") is a United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form that provides the public with information about a nonprofit organization.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Foundation (nonprofit)

A foundation (also referred to as a charitable foundation) is a type of nonprofit organization or charitable trust that usually provides funding and support to other charitable organizations through grants, while also potentially participating directly in charitable activities.

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Geisinger Health System

Geisinger Health System (GHS) is a regional health care provider to central, south-central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger Health System are hospital networks in the United States.

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George Halvorson

George Halvorson (born January 28, 1947) is a retired American healthcare executive who was CEO of Kaiser Permanente.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Grand Coulee Dam

Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.

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Group Health Cooperative

Group Health Cooperative, formerly known as Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, later more commonly known as Group Health, was an American nonprofit healthcare organization based in Seattle, Washington. Kaiser Permanente and Group Health Cooperative are healthcare in Washington (state).

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Health maintenance organization

In the United States, a health maintenance organization (HMO) is a medical insurance group that provides health services for a fixed annual fee. Kaiser Permanente and health maintenance organization are health maintenance organizations.

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Health policy

Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".

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Henry J. Kaiser

Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known for his shipbuilding and construction projects, then later for his involvement in fostering modern American health care.

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Hospital

A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.

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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury.

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Integrated delivery system

An integrated delivery system (IDS), also known as integrated delivery network (IDN), is a health system with a goal of logical integration of the delivery (provision) of health care as opposed to a fragmented system or a disorganized lack of system.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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Kaiser Family Foundation

KFF, which was formerly known as The Kaiser Family Foundation or The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, is an American non-profit organization, headquartered in San Francisco, California. Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Family Foundation are Henry J. Kaiser.

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Kaiser Oakland Medical Center

Kaiser Oakland Medical Center is a hospital in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Oakland Medical Center are Kaiser Permanente hospitals.

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Kaiser Permanente Arena

Kaiser Permanente Arena is an indoor arena located in Santa Cruz, in the U.S. state of California.

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Kaiser San Jose Medical Center

Kaiser San Jose Medical Center, also known as Kaiser Santa Teresa, is a Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Jose, California, located in the Santa Teresa district of South San Jose. Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser San Jose Medical Center are Kaiser Permanente hospitals.

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Labor dispute

A labor dispute is a disagreement between an employer and employees regarding the terms of employment.

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Liaison Committee on Medical Education

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is an accrediting body for educational programs at schools of medicine in the United States and Canada.

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Limited liability company

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles General Medical Center

Los Angeles General Medical Center (also known as LA General and formerly known as Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, County/USC, County General or by the abbreviation LAC+USC) is a 600-bed public teaching hospital located at 2051 Marengo Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States. Kaiser Permanente and los Angeles General Medical Center are healthcare in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Malpractice

In the law of torts, malpractice, also known as professional negligence, is an "instance of negligence or incompetence on the part of a professional".

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Managed care

The term managed care or managed healthcare is used in the United States to describe a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing American health insurance while improving the quality of that care ("managed care techniques").

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Mark Hopkins Hotel

The InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco is a luxury hotel located at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Medical software

Medical software is any software item or system used within a medical context, such as reducing the paperwork, tracking patient activity.

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Mercy Health (Ohio and Kentucky)

Mercy Health, formerly Catholic Health Partners, is a Catholic health care system with locations in Ohio and Kentucky.

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Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.

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Micromanagement

Micromanagement is a management style characterized by such behaviors as an excessive focus on observing and controlling subordinates and obsession with details.

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Mid-Atlantic (United States)

The Mid-Atlantic is a region of the United States located in the overlap between the Northeastern and Southeastern states of the United States.

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Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert (Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.

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National Health Service (England)

The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Northeastern United States

The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States located on the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Northern California

Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's 58 counties.

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Not-for-profit organization

A not-for-profit or non-for-profit organization (NFPO) is a legal entity that does not distribute surplus funds to its members and is formed to fulfill specific objectives.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Oahu

Oahu (Hawaiian: Oʻahu) is the most populated and third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Occupational medicine

Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), previously called industrial medicine, is a board certified medical specialty under the American Board of Preventative Medicine that specializes in the prevention and treatment of work-related illnesses and injuries.

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Office of Inspector General (United States)

In the United States, Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal or state agency aimed at preventing inefficient or unlawful operations within their parent agency.

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Oracle Cerner

Oracle Cerner or Oracle Health, formerly Cerner Corporation, is a US-based, multinational provider of health information technology (HIT) platforms and services.

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Ordway Building

The Ordway Building (also known as One Kaiser Plaza) is a skyscraper located in downtown Oakland, California.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Organ transplantation

Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.

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Patient

A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals.

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Patient dumping

Patient dumping or homeless dumping is the practice of hospitals and emergency services inappropriately releasing homeless or indigent patients to public hospitals or on the streets instead of placing them with a homeless shelter or retaining them, especially when they may require expensive medical care with minimal government reimbursement from Medicaid or Medicare.

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Permanente Creek

Permanente Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Permanente Quarry

The Permanente Quarry and cement plant is in an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County, California, just west of Cupertino.

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Preferred provider organization

In U.S. health insurance, a preferred provider organization (PPO), sometimes referred to as a participating provider organization or preferred provider option, is a managed care organization of medical doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who have agreed with an insurer or a third-party administrator to provide health care at reduced rates to the insurer's or administrator's clients. Kaiser Permanente and preferred provider organization are health insurance in the United States.

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Preventive healthcare

Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.

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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.

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Regional Oral History Office

The Oral History Center is part of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Reserve (accounting)

In financial accounting, reserve always has a credit balance and can refer to a part of shareholders' equity, a liability for estimated claims, or contra-asset for uncollectible accounts.

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Ross–Loos Medical Group

Ross–Loos Medical Group was a comprehensive prepaid health services plan with 29 medical offices throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties in California and a large multi-specialty hospital located on Temple Street, Los Angeles. Kaiser Permanente and Ross–Loos Medical Group are health maintenance organizations and healthcare in Los Angeles.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

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Sicko

Sicko is a 2007 American political documentary film by filmmaker Michael Moore. Kaiser Permanente and Sicko are health insurance in the United States.

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Sidney Garfield

Sidney R. Garfield (April 17, 1906 – December 29, 1984) was an American physician and a pioneer of health maintenance organizations.

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Sole proprietorship

A sole proprietorship, also known as a sole tradership, individual entrepreneurship or proprietorship, is a type of enterprise owned and run by only one person and in which there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business entity.

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Southern California

Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Press Democrat

The Press Democrat, with the largest circulation in California's North Bay, is a daily newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Trefethen Vineyards

Trefethen Family Vineyards is a winery in Napa Valley.

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U.S. Steel

United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations primarily in the United States of America and in Central Europe.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.

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University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California.

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Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, located in Clark County.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Workers' compensation

Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

American companies established in 1945

• Airlift International
• Arlan's
• Ashley Furniture Industries
• Associated Grocers of Florida
• Athletic Model Guild
• Big Time Wrestling (Detroit)
• Bonanza Air Lines
• Cantor Fitzgerald
• Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative
• Charlton Comics
• Congressional Quarterly
• Do It Best
• Electronic Associates
• Ertl Company
• Exquisite Form
• Fisher Electronics
• Flying Tiger Line
• Helicopter Air Transport
• J.J. McDonnell & Co, Inc.
• JanPak
• Jeep
• Kaiser Permanente
• Kaiser-Frazer
• King's Seafood Company
• Kinney Parking Company
• Leewards Creative Crafts
• Mac's Steak in the Rough
• Manheim Auctions
• Mattel
• Minute Maid
• Mohawk Airlines
• Morris Communications
• Motorette Corporation
• Mutual of America
• Rich Products
• Schuman Cheese
• Southern Company
• Stanley Stores
• Transatlantic Pictures
• U-Haul
• United Hardware Distributing Company
• United States Television Manufacturing Corp.
• Victory Auto Wreckers

Health maintenance organizations

• Aetna
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
• BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
• CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
• Clalit Health Services
• Delta Dental
• Diversified Pharmaceutical Services
• Elevance Health
• EmblemHealth
• Fallon Health
• Hawaii Medical Service Association
• Health Insurance Plan of New Jersey
• Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973
• Health Net
• Health maintenance organization
• HealthPartners
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
• Independence Blue Cross
• Kaiser Permanente
• Kupat Holim Meuhedet
• Leumit Health Care Services
• MDVIP
• Maccabi Healthcare Services
• Molina Healthcare
• Paul M. Ellwood Jr.
• Ross–Loos Medical Group

Healthcare in California

• AHMC
• Abortion in California
• CalOptima
• California Department of Managed Health Care
• California Health Care Foundation
• California Uninsured Patient Hospital Pricing Litigation
• California WIC program
• Chumash traditional medicine
• Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
• Dignity Health
• Eugenics in California
• Healthcare in California
• Hoag (health network)
• Kaiser Permanente
• Lompoc Healthcare District
• Marlton Square
• Medi-Cal Access Program
• Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons v. California Medical Ass'n
• Sutter Health

Healthcare in Colorado

• Abortion in Colorado
• Boulder Community Health
• Camp Harding, Colorado
• Connect for Health Colorado
• HealthOne
• Intermountain Health
• Kaiser Permanente
• Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act
• Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center

Healthcare in Georgia (U.S. state)

• Abortion in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Emory Healthcare
• Georgia Hospital Association
• Kaiser Permanente
• Piedmont Macon North Hospital
• Ty Cobb Healthcare System
• Wellstar Health System

Healthcare in Hawaii

• Abortion in Hawaii
• Hawaii Health Connector
• Hawaii Pacific Health
• Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act
• Kaiser Permanente
• Straub Medical Center

Healthcare in Los Angeles

• Adventist Health Glendale
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles
• Children's Institute Inc.
• Encino Hospital Medical Center
• Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center
• First 5 Los Angeles
• Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District
• Healthy Way LA
• Kaiser Permanente
• Keck School of Medicine of USC
• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
• Los Angeles County Health Agency
• Los Angeles General Medical Center
• Los Angeles Jewish Home
• Motion Picture & Television Fund
• My Health LA
• Northridge Hospital Medical Center
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
• Ross–Loos Medical Group
• UCLA Health
• UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
• UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
• UMMA Community Clinic
• Venice Family Clinic
• West Los Angeles VA Medical Center
• Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute

Healthcare in Oregon

• 2021 St. Charles Bend strike
• Abortion in Oregon
• Coordinated care organization
• InterCommunity Health Network
• Kaiser Permanente
• Oregon Medicaid health experiment
• PeaceHealth
• Samaritan Health Services
• Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center
• ZoomCare

Healthcare in Washington (state)

• 1976 Seattle nurses strike
• Abortion in Washington (state)
• Airlift Northwest
• EvergreenHealth
• Group Health Cooperative
• Health districts in Washington
• Kaiser Permanente
• PeaceHealth
• Providence Health & Services
• Skagit Regional Health
• Virginia Mason Medical Center
• Washington Apple Health
• Washington Healthplanfinder
• Washington Initiative 1029
• ZoomCare

Henry J. Kaiser

• California Shipbuilding Corporation
• Eagle Mountain Railroad
• Eagle Mountain, California
• Edgar Kaiser Jr.
• Edgar Kaiser Sr.
• Fritz Johann Hansgirg
• Hawaiʻi Kai, Hawaii
• Henry J. Kaiser
• Henry J. Kaiser High School (Hawaii)
• Industrias Kaiser Argentina
• Kaiser Aluminum
• Kaiser Broadcasting
• Kaiser Center
• Kaiser Convention Center
• Kaiser Engineering Building
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• Kaiser Motors
• Kaiser Permanente
• Kaiser Shipyards
• Kaiser Steel
• Kaiser-Frazer
• Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation
• Richmond Shipyards
• Swan Island Shipyard
• Vancouver Shipyard
• Vanport, Oregon

Kaiser Permanente hospitals

• Alliance of Health Care Unions
• Bess Kaiser Hospital
• Kaiser Fontana Medical Center
• Kaiser Oakland Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente
• Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital
• Kaiser Richmond Medical Center
• Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center
• Kaiser San Jose Medical Center
• Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center
• Kaiser Vacaville Medical Center
• Kaiser Westside Medical Center
• Marlton Square
• Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Permanente

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