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Website. www .ghc .org. 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. [1] It was acquired by Kaiser Permanente in 2017 and now serves as the Kaiser Washington region. [2]
Kaiser Permanente ( / ˈkaɪzər pɜːrməˈnɛnteɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation ...
Formed an alliance with the University of Washington in 2011. Virginia Mason Hospital. Seattle. King. 336. Virginia Mason Health System merged with Franciscan Health (CHI Franciscan and Virginia Mason merger) [14] Wenatchee Valley Medical Center. Wenatchee.
Oct. 30—Health care giant Kaiser Permanente and its Washington workers have reached a tentative contract just days before a scheduled strike statewide. Details of the four-year labor contract ...
Washington Healthplanfinder. Washington Healthplanfinder is one of the fourteen health insurance marketplaces in the United States and was created in accordance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare. Washington Healthplanfinder is a state-operated website that allows residents of the state of ...
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. Prior to World War II, Kaiser was involved in the construction industry; his company was one of those that ...
The Oakland Medical Center was the first of the Kaiser Permanente hospitals, and opened in 1942 as a result of the acquisition of the Fabiola charity hospital (which operated from 1887 to 1932 before being sold to Samuel Merritt Hospital) by the Permanente Foundation, founded by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.
Kaiser Richmond Medical Center. Kaiser Richmond Medical Center is a large Kaiser Permanente hospital in downtown Richmond, California which serves 77,000 members registered under its medical plans. [1] It opened in 1995 replacing the historic 1942 Richmond Field Hospital that serviced Liberty shipyard workers and thus gave birth to the HMO.