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Feb 27, 2024 · As he had at Grand Coulee Dam, Kaiser brought in Dr. Sidney Garfield to implement a Health Maintenance Organization to keep workers healthy and on the job as much as possible.
Oct 17, 2023 · Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and his construction company at Grand Coulee Dam needed high-quality care for workers and families. Dr. Garfield agreed to visit the site and evaluate the situation.
May 3, 2024 · The Grand Coulee Dam project led to the first partnership between Kaiser and Dr. Garfield. Dr. Garfield sits in front of Contractors General Hospital in 1935. His ideas of prepayment and preventive care laid the foundation for Kaiser Permanente’s future health plan.
Oct 5, 2003 · Kaiser helped construct some of the nation’s great bridges and dams -- Hoover, Bonneville, Shasta, Grand Coulee and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Henry J. Kaiser developed an extensive and complex industrial empire. During the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, he began an association with Sidney Garfield, MD, that resulted in the prototype of the modern health maintenance organization.
Grand Coulee impounds a reservoir, Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, named for the president who authorized construction of the dam, which began in 1933 (see construction photos). Lake Roosevelt backs up the river almost to the Canadian border, a distance of 151 miles.
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Aug 15, 1993 · Visitors may arrive at Grand Coulee Dam by several routes, each of which tells it own story of how wind, erosion and ice carved and shaped this vast expanse of gullies, canyons and cliffs....
