Kaiser Permanente is America's largest not-for-profit health maintenance organization, serving 7.4 million members in 17 states and the District of Columbia. An integrated health delivery system, KP organizes and provides or coordinates members' care, including preventive care such as well-baby and prenatal care, immunizations, and screening diagnostics; hospital and medical services; and pharmacy services.

As a not-for-profit organization, we are driven by the needs of our members and our social obligation to provide benefit for the communities in which we operate, rather than the needs of shareholders. Social benefit activities include assistance to the uninsured and special populations; teaching new health professionals; demonstration of new delivery and financing methods into the health care arena at large; and through our clinical research efforts, developing and sharing better ways to care for patients.

Kaiser Permanente serves members in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.