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In the N&tter of Congratulating Kamer
Permanente's Walnut Creek Medical )
Center on it 50th Anniversary ) RESOLUTION NO.2003/612
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County has a vital interest in and a variety of responsibilities for supporting
and promoting health care programs and services for Contra Costa residents,including access to
affordable,high-quality medical services;
WHEREAS,Contra Costa County is fortunate to have a number of highly regarded health care facilities
and service delivery programs;
WHEREAS,among those is Kaiser Permanente,a not-for-profit integrated health care organization
established 58 years ago,which provides prepaid health care and a broad variety of medical services to
more than 6.3 million voluntarily enrolled members in California alone,and to millions more in eight
other stAes and the District of Columbia;
WHEREAS,those services are delivered by 29 full-service medical centers,423 medical offices and
11,000 participating physicians,and two of those 29 medical centers are located in Contra Costa
County,specifically,in Richmond and in Walnut Creek;
WHEREAS,Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek Medical Center includes a newly rebuilt state--of-the-art
229 bed hospital,a new integrated Oncology Center,the County's largest Level III Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit,and the only hospital-based midwifery program in the County;
WHEREAS,Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek Medical Center is one of the largest employers in
Walnut Creek,with approximately 3,000 staff members and nearly 300 physicians;
WHEREAS,last year KP devoted more than$9,000,000.00 to provide medical care services for
vulnerable populations and to support a variety of community programs and agencies throughout
Contra Costa County;
WHEREAS,this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Kaiser Permanente's Walnut
Creek Medical Center;and
WHEREAS,on November 5,2003,the Walnut Creek Medical Center will dedicate an expanded Emergency
Department, which will be the largest in Contra Costa County and one of the largest in Northern
California,and which will have cardiac monitoring at every bedside and on-site digital imaging;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors congratulates the Kaiser
Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center on its 50 years of community service and recognizes its
contributions and dedication to the good health of Contra Costa residents as currently exemplified by the
completion of a.new,32,000 square foot Emergency Department.
PASSED by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors members present this 4th day of November 2003.
MARK DeSAULNIER
Chair
District IV Supe
JOHN GIOIA GAYLE IL EMA
District I Supervisor District II Supervis r
MILLIE GREENBERG FEDERAL D.GLOVER
District.III Supervisor District V Supervisor