Kaiser Permanente provides care throughout eight regions in the United States. Two or three (four, in the case of California) distinct but interdependent legal entities form the Kaiser system within each region. This

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Early years
The history of Kaiser Permanente dates to 1933 and a tiny hospital in the town of Desert Center, California.

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In the California Healthcare Quality Report Card 2013 Edition, Kaiser Permanente's Northern California and Southern California regions, KP received four out of four possible stars in Meeting National Standards of Care. KP North and South also received three out of

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Kaiser Permanente announced its plan to start a medical school in December, 2015, and the school welcomed its inaugural class in June, 2020. The

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Mandatory arbitration
In order to contain costs, Kaiser requires an agreement by planholders to submit patient malpractice claims to arbitrationrather than litigating

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• Kaiser Family Foundation

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Kaiser operates a Division of Research, which annually conducts between 200 and 300 studies, and the Center for Health Research, which in 2009 had more than 300 active studies.

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