Verizon Wireless
Hopeline® Corporate Award 2007
Kaiser Permanente—Healthcare Provider

Kaiser Permanente will be honored as the Verizon Wireless Hopeline® Corporate Award recipient for their leadership in violence prevention and health programs. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente is America’s leading integrated health plan and is a nonprofit, group practice prepayment program with headquarters in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia.

With diversity as its dominant characteristic, more than 55,000 employees and 5,000 physicians provide health care services to 3.3 million members at Kaiser Permanente Southern California’s 12 medical centers and 130 medical offices. Kaiser Permanente is Los Angeles County’s largest private employer, and provides employee health benefits as the City of Los Angeles’s largest contractor.

Kaiser Permanente exists to provide affordable, high-quality health care services to improve the health of its members and the communities they serve. To further this mission, Kaiser Permanente extends its clinical care and total health focus through extensive medical and health services research programs and generous Community Benefit funding and services aimed at providing health care for vulnerable populations. This is accomplished by addressing needs and priorities identified through local needs assessments that affect overall community health and the health care system.

In 2006, Kaiser Permanente Southern California spent approximately $302 million or 2.6% of revenue to support community programs designed to improve community health. Peace Over Violence is proud to present Kaiser Permanente with the Verizon Wireless Hopeline® Corporate Award for its many years of service and dedication to the Los Angeles community and beyond. Especially because of corporate sponsored initiatives such as the Family Violence Prevention Program and P.E.A.C.E. Signs programs, Kaiser Permanente is a welcome corporate patron in the struggle to end domestic violence.