“Kaiser Permanente is a national not-for-profit Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) originally established in response to the need for medical care for employees of WWII shipyards in Richmond, California. Its mission is “to provide affordable, high-quality health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.
Kaiser serves approximately 186,000 San Francisco residents throughout the city. It provides a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services, emergency services, social services and indigent care.“