Organization Overview and Culture

Mission statement: "At Kaiser Permanente, our mission is to provide affordable, high-quality health care services and improve the health of our members and the communities we serve."

Kaiser is huge; it has 156,000 employees total, including 13,000 physicians serving 8.7 million members across the nation. Its headquarters are here in California, in Oakland.

The manager of the Surgery department of Kaiser's Terra Linda campus is Meredith Jones, RN, and when she is absent, Ginny McLeod steps in as manager. The leader of the doctors is Dr. Marla Anderson. The management is very streamlined and, although slightly flexible, rules are important and not disregarded (especially HIPPA [medical privacy protocol.])

(Sources)

http://adminfellowship.kp.org/kaiser.html

http://ckp.kp.org/newsroom/national/archive/nat_071220_haart.html