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Group Health Cooperative
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Group Health Cooperative is a major nonprofit healthcare system, based in Seattle, Washington. Group Health Inc. was established in 1947. It is a consumer-governed nonprofit system, which deals with healthcare and serves more than 540,000 people in Washington and Idaho. Group Health Cooperative is one of the largest private employers in Washington.
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Group Health Cooperative provides healthcare nationwide with the help of its agreements with Beech Street and First Choice Health Network. The research arm of Group Health Cooperative works in institutions such as the University of Washington and the National Institutes of Health.
Group Health Cooperative can take pride in being the national leader in clinical information systems and electronic patient records. Group Health Cooperative excels in care and high quality service. This nonprofit health care system has made care and insurance their top priority. The healthcare system of Group Health Cooperative comprise the following:
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Northwest’s largest health maintenance organization (HMO)
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Point-of-service (POS) plan
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A charitable foundation
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Group Health Center for Health Studies
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An associated 1,217-physician group practice
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State-of-the-art hospitals
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Medical centers
Group Health Cooperative is known to be the nation's second largest consumer-governed, health care system. Group Health offers health care through 25 primary care medical centers, 6 specialty units, and 2 hospitals and a number of other facilities. Besides this, 39 other major institutions, which have affiliations with Group Health, provide care when there is a need for selected services unavailable at Group Health. It is also required in locations where Group Health has no facilities.
Group Health is also in contact with 9,100 independent doctors and group practices. The service provided by Group Health Cooperative includes a pre-paid primary, specialty, hospital, and home health care. Those who are enrolled with Group Health Cooperative have the option of choosing a primary care medical center and a personal physician within that medical center.
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