Kaiser Permanente (KP), the nation's largest not-for-profit health plan, is an integrated health delivery system that organizes and provides or coordinates members' care, including preventive care, hospital and medical services, and pharmacy services. Among the various managed care models, KP is considered a traditional group model HMO in that it is a not-for-profit healthcare system with its own staff and facilities, and with active involvement of physicians in the decision-making process that affects patient care.
KP's mission is to provide affordable, high-quality healthcare services to improve the health of its members and the communities it serves. KP serves 8.2 million members in nine states—California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia, Washington—and the District of Columbia.
KP serves the TriCentral area in Southern California through its medical centers in three communities: Bellflower, Baldwin Park, and Harbor City. KP TriCentral serves an estimated 630,000 members who reside in the area; its palliative care and hospice programs are available to an additional 300,000 members who reside in neighboring communities.
For more information about the TriCentral Palliative Care Toolkit visit www.growthhouse.org/palliative/. All content is Copyright © 2002, 2003 by Richard D. Brumley, M.D. All rights reserved. No part of this toolkit may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the publishers. This guide to developing home-based outpatient palliative care services was developed through a grant to the Kaiser Permanente TriCentral Service Area from The Project on Death In America. The Kaiser Permanente TriCentral Palliative Care Program is a Sustaining Member of the Inter-Institutional Collaborating Network On End-of-life Care (IICN) which links major organizations internationally.
