Kaiser Permanente honors its employees, physicians, and community partners who responded without hesitation to COVID-19, officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020.
Since treating the first patient, Kaiser Permanente has cared for more than 1.9 million COVID-19 patients nationwide and administered 28.5 million vaccines, including to 72% of its members over age 5. In Northern California alone, Kaiser Permanente has performed more than 4.3 million COVID-19 tests.
View a slideshow below of the organization’s response in Northern California to COVID-19 over the past 2 years.
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January 2022: Respiratory therapist Eliana Arroyo, whose department in the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center was named the best in Northern California by the California Society for Respiratory Care, with a Hamilton G-5 mechanical ventilator used to care for acutely ill COVID-19 patients. As of March 2022, the medical center had treated and successfully discharged 3,083 COVID-19 patients.
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