Kaiser Permanente today named Patrick Courneya, M.D., as the new chief medical officer for its Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.
Courneya, who reports directly to Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson, will replace Dr. Jed Weissberg, 61, who is retiring in May, according to Oakland-based Kaiser, one of the nation’s leading integrated health systems.
He’ll also hold the title of executive vice president.
Kaiser said Courneya will work with regional and national leaders of the Permanente Medical Groups, including Dr. Robert Pearl in Northern California, as well as hospital officials at the giant health care system.
It posted $2.7 billion in net income last year, on $53.1 billion in operating revenue, as the Business Times reported in mid-February.
Courneya, a family practice physician by training, has been with Minnesota’s HealthPartners Health Plan for the past decade as medical director and earlier as associate medical director.
Kaiser has more than 9.1 million enrollees in eight states and the District of Columbia, but roughly three-quarters of them reside in California.
Courneya takes office May 5.
Like longtime former Kaiser chairman and CEO George Halvorson, who held those roles at Kaiser from 2002 to 2013, Courneya hails from Minneapolis-based HealthPartners.
Date: Mar 27, 2014