LANCASTER – Antelope Valley Hospital and Kaiser Permanente recently announced a 10-year contract extension under which Kaiser Permanente doctors will continue to serve Kaiser Permanente members at Antelope Valley Hospital.
“We are pleased that Kaiser Permanente agreed that Antelope Valley Hospital can meet the hospital services needs of their members and the community by building on the relationship we’ve forged together rather than building a new hospital,” stated Michael Wall, CEO of Antelope Valley Hospital. “With a new decade-long agreement, we can build on our success and continue this journey together to provide stability, confidence and commitment to expanding access for quality healthcare at Antelope Valley Hospital.”
The collaboration will allow Antelope Valley Hospital and Kaiser Permanente to maximize their resources and technologies to serve patients and families in the Antelope Valley.
“Extending our agreement in the Antelope Valley is part of Kaiser Permanente’s mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services where our members live and work, and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve,” stated Payman Roshan, senior vice president and area manager, Kaiser Permanente Panorama City and Antelope Valley.
Both organizactions will jointly tackle the Antelope Valley’s most pressing health issues – including hypertension, cancer and mental health – and will address the social, economic and environmental factors that contribute to one’s wellness.
“We are thrilled to have access to the best practices, quality data and resources of a premier health system like Kaiser Permanente,” Wall added. “We look forward to using these tools to benefit patients throughout Antelope Valley and believe this relationship can serve as a model for transforming healthcare delivery in the region.”
(Information via news release from Antelope Valley Hospital.)
Annette says
… the Kaiser Permanente wields more market power concentration, than Henry Ford or Bill Gates during they heyday. What KP execs are doing is, driving up the cost of healthcare premiums by competing for, and asserting control over local resources, and by crowding-out access of those who pay KP its “premium” (e.g., everyone with incomes under US$40k). And, when KP does decided upon flanking AV Hospital, it enjoys a bountiful, endless stream of cash reserves for lavish duplication of assets sufficient, to swipe 90% of AV Hospital’s semi-affluent demographic, and leave AV Hospital bankrupt, rummaging for KP’s table-scraps (e.g., bottom tier Medi-Cal & Medicare). What KP intends to do with AV Hospital is, soften it up, weaken it as much as it can, assert its dominance by subverting AV Hospital’s dependence upon KP, before pulling out the rug, leaving it high and dry. What the AV policy community sorely needs is, a local ordinance formally expelling KP, and all its employees, from the Southern Antelope Valley for the until 2040 –
Alby says
It’s like having extra tools in the tool box so that the job can be done more efficiently. I’m glad. Hopefully insurance politics don’t step on those life saving tool toes.
Heather says
… bless their hearts, by no means sharpest pencils in the cup, hoodwinked by the hospital corporations on Measure H, so much for mean policy IQ of the Antelope Valley electorate.
Ricky says
The question of the day: “How many Lancaster residents does it take, to screw in a light bulb?”
– CLUE: “Though, it’s a pretty big number, it’s one less than Palmdale.”
AV 4 Life says
Lancaster residents elected someone who thinks bird sounds lower crime and Bangladesh will be wiped out by a cyclone in his lifetime.
No wonder practically every new business the comes to the AV goes to Palmdale.
William says
The Answer of the Day>
It only takes 1. The rest of Lancaster drinks till the room starts spinning.
Alexis says
The Democrats are responsible for the uranium deal, not the Republicans. When you just throw in some random lie about a subject you know nothing about, then you don’t know the truth like you say you do.
Alexis says
That’s O.K. Bill, the truth shall set you free from confusion. I’m happy to share the facts with you.
William says
Okay, Barbara, er, Alexis. You remind me of Birther Barbara, a old acquaintance best forgot.
You might want to get off your high horse regarding facts without listing your source. How do you know those are accurate? Was it in a forwarded right wing email to you?
But, that’s you.
I’ll treat your ‘facts’ the way you treat mine and others. How ’bout that?
You just can’t win Barbara what with the skills you have.
Matt K. says
This is ridiculous! Kaiser just needs to get their act together and build a REAL hospital in the A.V. ! We have 500,000 people living here and we should have more than 2 hospitals.
JPB says
Why would they? Rexie just got his Measure H passed and he’ll see to it that a $600 million dollar hospital ends up at this Medical Main Street on some property probably owned by Visco, Gilley or the two of them combined.
Kaiser will contract with them and save millions.
That’s how it goes in Lancaster.
Are you new to town?
JPB says
Let’s hope Rex doesn’t get control of the new hospital board. His track record is nothing to write home about. Failed Ecolution and bird sounds in the BLVD, LEAPS boondoggle, Traction Seal debacle, DOJ lawsuit, Starwood, Quartz Hill Walmart, Antelope Acres solar farms, suing neighboring cities for districts he refuses to implement, and so on.
Imagine the damage he could do to our hospital.
Tim Scott says
Hospital coverage is measured by beds per thousand people, not numbers of hospitals. That said, I suspect we aren’t doing all that well by that measure either.
Stephanie says
… sad truth of it, Lancaster residents were outsmarted. Exactly what we didn’t want with Measure H, for AV Hospital to become another Kaiser Permanente. Like squirrels, hiding nuts, NPOs are notorious, for laundering profit through administrative cost. Top NPO execs spend more time in country clubs, than hospitals. And, what we’ll inevitably wind up with is, just another hospital corporation with better accountants, than doctors. Lancaster residents just got royally screwed. The hospital corporations effectively swiped AV Hospital, right out from under our nose –
Irena says
Kaiser is only providing doctors to see Kaiser members. Unless you are a member, you aren’t seen by Kaiser staff. it has been this way for years and the contract is an extension of the already existing agreement.
I am pretty sure Kaiser has no intentions of taking over an aging poorly rated hospital.