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About Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health plan. Founded in 1945, it is a not-for-profit; group practice prepayment program headquartered in Oakland, Calif. Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of more than 8.7 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Today it encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their subsidiaries, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups. Nationwide, Kaiser Permanente includes approximately 156,000 technical, administrative and clerical employees and caregivers, and more than 13, 000 physicians representing all specialties. For more Kaiser Permanente news, visit the KP News Center at: http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter.

About Discovery Health CME

Since its launch in 2004, Discovery Health CME has offered innovative, flexible opportunities for physicians and licensed health professionals to earn free continuing medical education credit. The program incorporates the production quality and expertise of Discovery Communications, the clinical expertise of the nation's leading authorities on some of today's most relevant CME topics, the reach of the Discovery Health Television network, and a user-friendly website for physicians and health professionals, DiscoveryHealthCME.com.

Discovery Health Media includes the Discovery Health and FitTV television networks and online assets including http://www.discoveryhealth.com, as well as its Continuing Medical Education (CME) business and Discovery's first stand-alone VOD service, Discovery Health On-Call. Discovery Health Media is part of Discovery Communications, the number-one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 170 countries. Through TV and digital media, Discovery's
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