Slide 1: Hi Good morning class welcome to our presentation on Obesity Management at Kaiser

Permanente.

Slide 2: In today’s presentation we’re going to discuss:

 History and Background of Kaiser Permanente (KP)
 Investment into Obesity
 Goals of Obesity Management Programs and Investments
 Class Connection

Slide 3: Let’s begin! Kaiser Permanente was founded in 1945 by both Henry J. Kaiser and Dr.
Sidney R. Garfield. In collaboration, the two worked together to create a pre-payment
healthcare model to provide services to individuals who needed healthcare.

The pre-payment model influenced the HMO Act of 1973 which led insurance providers to
create a fixed annual fee premium in exchange for healthcare services. Additionally, Kaiser is a
fully-integrated healthcare system headquartered in Oakland, California.

Kaiser is comprised of the Kaiser Health Plan Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and The
Permanente Medical Groups. Today Kaiser is located in 8 states with 12.5m members, 39
hospitals and 734 medical offices. The Kaiser workforce is made up of approximately 23.6
thousand physicians, 65 thousand nurses and approximately 217.3 hundred thousand
employees.

Slide 4: Kaiser is a huge integrated healthcare network that has a care and coverage model that
has proven to work. The model focuses on:
 Health quality
 Value based care
 Innovation
 Community Impact
 Affordability

Slide 5: With this model in mind, our case focuses on Obesity Management at Kaiser
Permanente.
 Obesity is a common chronic condition that impacts approximately 2 million adult
Kaiser patients that are defined as obese and over 350,000 adult patients that are
defined as morbidly obese.
 Furthermore, Kaiser is an organization that prides itself on prevention, community
and outcomes. With that in mind I am going to let Dejah and Cydney share more
about Kaisers investment in obesity