Trish Rodriguez
Senior Vice President, Clinical Services
Northern California Region Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals
Trish Rodriguez is the Senior Vice President, Clinical Services for the Northern California region of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. She works across the delivery system to ensure access to healthcare services by 4.7 million members across all care settings, including care delivery strategy for Medicare and Medicaid, development of new models of care for complex needs and vulnerable populations, and operations oversight of pharmacy, continuum (including SNF, home health and hospice, dialysis, DME, and transport), mental health and other specialty care services, resource stewardship, e-Care, and PACE.
Prior to this role, she served as the Senior Vice President and Area Manager for Kaiser Permanente in South Sacramento and Elk Grove. She oversaw health plan and hospital operations, including Kaiser Permanente’s first Level II Trauma Center and the Geographic Managed Care (GMC) program. She began her career at Kaiser Permanente in 1991 at the Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu as a Staff Nurse in the Emergency Department. She then took on roles with increasing responsibility in the Hawaii Region, ultimately serving as Assistant Hospital Administrator/Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer. In 2008, she transferred to the Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center as its Chief Operating Officer.
Ms. Rodriguez is a Registered Nurse and earned her master’s degree in public health from the University of Hawaii and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta Canada. Trish has also attended the KP Executive Leadership Program at the Harvard Business School.