Raymond Kay was a highly effective physician and medical administrator in Kaiser's Southern California operations. Kay's interview discusses the many trials and tribulations of the Fontana site whose problems were separate from those in Northern California.
Intern, Los Angeles County General Hosp., 1932-1933; friendship with Sidney Garfield; interest in prepaid medical health plans; army medical service, India, 1944-1945; teaching and coordinating residency programs, University of Southern California and L.A. County General Hosp., 1946-1949; medical director, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, 1949-1970; director, Medical Manpower, SCPMG, 1970-present; Fontana Steel Plant hospital; Harbor City hospital; start-up and growth of L.A. KPMCP: program, recruiting physicians, expansion to San Diego, Denver, Hawaii; relations with other KP regions and medical group directors; stresses systemwide; program pioneers; physicians and management personnel.
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Title
Raymond Kay: Kaiser Permanente: History of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
Note
Kay, Raymond . "Raymond Kay: Kaiser Permanente: History of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program." Interview by Ora Huth in 1985. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1987. Interview date(s) 1985
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