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Excerpt from Ascending the Ranks of Management, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 1957-1992: Oral History Transcript
The Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program recently observed its fortieth anniversary. Today, it is the largest, one of the oldest, and certainly the most influential group practice prepayment health plan in the nation. But in 1938, when Henry J. And Edgar F. Kaiser first collaborated with Dr. Sidney Garfield to provide medical care for the construction workers on the Grand Coulee Dam project in eastern Washington, they could scarcely have envisioned that it would attain the size and have the impact on medical care in the United States that it has today.
In an effort to document and preserve the story of Kaiser Permanente''s evolution through the recollections of some of its surviving pioneers, men and women who remember vividly the plan''s origins and formative years, the Board of Directors of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals sponsored this oral history project.
In combination with already available records, the interviews serve to enrich Kaiser Permanente''s history for its physicians, employees, and members, and to offer a major resource for research into the history of health care financing and delivery, and some of the forces behind the rapid and sweeping changes now underway in the health care field.
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The Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program recently observed its fortieth anniversary. Today, it is the largest, one of the oldest, and certainly the most influential group practice prepayment health plan in the nation. But in 1938, when Henry J. And Edgar F. Kaiser first collaborated with Dr. Sidney Garfield to provide medical care for the construction workers on the Grand Coulee Dam project in eastern Washington, they could scarcely have envisioned that it would attain the size and have the impact on medical care in the United States that it has today.
In an effort to document and preserve the story of Kaiser Permanente''s evolution through the recollections of some of its surviving pioneers, men and women who remember vividly the plan''s origins and formative years, the Board of Directors of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals sponsored this oral history project.
In combination with already available records, the interviews serve to enrich Kaiser Permanente''s history for its physicians, employees, and members, and to offer a major resource for research into the history of health care financing and delivery, and some of the forces behind the rapid and sweeping changes now underway in the health care field.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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James A. Vohs
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ISBN - 9780267217687
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Page Count - 309
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James A. Vohs
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Page Count - 311
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