California - Southern

Southern California captures the imagination with its sunny beaches and boulevards lined with palm trees. The area is also one of the most vital, vibrant, and culturally diverse areas in the United States, offering exceptional educational, recreational, and professional opportunities.

Kaiser Permanente was established in Southern California in 1943 to serve the workers of the Kaiser steel mill in Fontana. In 1945, program enrollment was opened to the public and in 1950, at the invitation of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime Association, the program was expanded to the Los Angeles Harbor area.

Today, the Southern California Region serves approximately 3 million members. Approximately 3,600 physicians of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group provide care at 11 medical centers and numerous medical offices supporting all specialties and most sub-specialties.

The Southern California Region is exemplary in several ways. Our largest centers enjoy affiliation with research projects at Harvard University, the University of Southern California, and the National Institutes of Health. Innovative programs and special services, including our Rehabilitation Pavilion in Orange County and our Radiation Oncology Center in Los Angeles, also distinguish our medical centers.

We are consistently among the most highly rated health care plans in the United States. Kaiser Permanente Southern California has earned an "Excellent" rating from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)-the nation's leading reviewer of health plan quality for consumers and businesses. Excellent is the top rating granted by NCQA. Overall, we satisfied or surpassed the strict criteria that NCQA uses to evaluate health care in such areas as preventive measures, physician credentialing, member services and improvement initiatives.*

Both our Northern and Southern California regions were the only health plans in California identified by the NCQA in its list of the best health care programs in the Pacific States. (NCQA's The State of Health Care Quality 2003)

For the seventh straight year, no other health plan has earned higher ratings from California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative (CCHRI) on more measures than Kaiser Permanente. The annual ratings measure clinical quality and member satisfaction. (CCHRI Report on Quality 2003) The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has accredited all Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in California.

For more information on career opportunities in Southern California, please contact:

Southern California Regional Recruitment
393 East Walnut Street
LSRS 304
Pasadena, Ca 91188
Phone: (800) 331-3976
Fax: (888) 805-7562

* Commercial HMO and Medicare-contracted product lines: May 2002.