A bit about Kaiser:
"Who We Are
A leader in health policy and communications, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations or major media companies.
We serve as a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. Our product is information, always provided free of charge – from the most sophisticated policy research, to basic facts and numbers, to information young people can use to improve their health or elderly people can use to understand their Medicare benefits.
What We Do
The Foundation has many programs and a complex organizational chart, but essentially we do three things:
We are a major producer of policy analysis and research ourselves.
We serve as a trusted and independent expert voice in a U.S. health system dominated by commercial, political, and ideological interests; a place where people can turn for unbiased and non-partisan analysis, basic facts, and explanation of the biggest health policy issues and public opinion shaping them. This is the role for which we are best known in the U.S.
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We are a “go to” clearinghouse of news and information for the health policy community.
We operate a large-scale health news and information service on the web and a series of specialized websites, featuring both data we produce as well as the latest and best data from others, to help to ensure that everyone has the same kind of information and access to events as insiders do. We also make a major effort to assist journalists and news organizations working to inform the public about complex health policy and public health issues.
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Kaiser develops and helps run large-scale public health information campaigns in the U.S. and around the world.
These currently focus on HIV/AIDS, with an emphasis on reaching young people. Kaiser campaigns are based on a new model of public service programming pioneered by the Foundation – direct partnerships with major media companies and a comprehensive “multi-platform” communications strategy that goes far beyond traditional “PSAs.” Current partners in the U.S. include MTV, BET, Univision, Viacom/CBS, and Fox. Together, Kaiser's campaigns reach tens of millions of people annually, and have won mutliple Emmy and Peabody awards in recent years.
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Headquarters
2400 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
phone: (650) 854-9400
fax: (650) 854-4800 Washington, D.C. Office/Public Affairs Center
1330 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
phone: (202) 347-5270
fax: (202) 347-5274
www.kff.org/about/index2.cfmwww.kaisernetwork.org/static/about.cfmBoard of Trustees:
www.kff.org/about/trustees2.cfmKaiser Foundation not associated with Kaiser Permente or Kaiser Industries:
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and his wife Bess established the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in 1948 with the goal of meeting “the unmet health care needs of the citizenry.” One of Henry Kaiser’s favorite sayings was “find a need and fill it,” and that’s what the Foundation has tried to do. While the Foundation was established in 1948, it is in a sense a relatively young organization. Under the leadership of CEO Drew Altman, Kaiser was completely remade from the ground up beginning in 1991, with the mission, expertise, programs, and operating foundation-style it’s known for today.
With an endowment of over half a billion dollars, Kaiser has an operating budget of over $40 million per year. The Foundation operates almost exclusively with its own resources, though we do occasionally receive funds from grant-making foundations, primarily to expand our global programs.
The Foundation’s trustees – including former policymakers and leaders from business, academia, and the non-profit community – serve a maximum of two four-year terms. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.
www.kff.org/about/history.cfmSo, how does Kaiser Permente work?
Board of Directors:
tinyurl.com/2e2hh2"As a frequent lecturer on health care, Dr. Pearl is an advocate for the power of physician-led, integrated medical delivery systems. He believes that organizations like Kaiser Permanente, in which physicians collaborate rather than compete and in which a multispecialty medical group works in partnership with a nonprofit health plan and hospital system, are able to provide superior quality of care over fragmented insurance-based systems. By building on its integrated structure, Dr. Pearl believes that Kaiser Permanente is uniquely positioned to be the leader in implementing Internet technology and redefining the practice of medicine as we know it today."
tinyurl.com/2gvbsuSo, the Foundation is not involved with Kaiser Permente, and Permente is like BCBS, or other HMO's. I see Wellcome trust did not offer to research this. Does anyone know who else may have offered to research and study this?
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