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Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care — and our more than 28,000 nurses in Northern California play a critical role. Learn more about our vision, leadership, medical centers, and our outstanding legacy of nursing excellence.

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About Us

Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care — and our more than 28,000 nurses in Northern California play a critical role. Learn more about our vision, leadership, medical centers, and our outstanding legacy of nursing excellence.

Learn more Our vision Our legacy Our leadership

Northern California Region

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28,000

Registered nurses

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21

Hospitals

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9,547

Physicians

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4.5M

Members served

Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has a mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and improve the health of our members and communities.

We currently serve 12.6 million members in 8 states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their physicians, nurses, specialists, and caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery, and world-class chronic disease management.

Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education, and the support of community health. Kaiser Permanente believes that total health is more than freedom from physical affliction. It’s about mind, body, and spirit. Delivering total health means our members can enjoy healthy, engaged lives, and our communities can benefit from equal access to high-quality health care.

Our leadership team

Meet the Chief Nurse Executives of our 21 medical centers in Northern California, and our regional and national nursing executives.

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Nursing vision and professional practice model

As leaders, clinicians, researchers, innovators, and scientists, Kaiser Permanente nurses are advancing the delivery of excellent, compassionate care for our members across the continuum and boldly transforming care to improve the health of our communities and nation.

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Our legacy

The legacy of nursing at Kaiser Permanente is captured in the words, experiences and memories of some of our Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing graduates, who share their experiences as nursing students and as Kaiser Permanente nurses, offering insightful and compassionate words of wisdom. They speak to the underlying truth that first and foremost the purpose of nursing is to provide extraordinary, heartfelt care for the patient.

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