Risant Health

Risant Health is a private, nonprofit organization formed by Kaiser Permanente based in Washington, D.C.

Risant Health

Company type	Non-profit
Industry	Healthcare
Founded	2023; 2 years ago (2023)
Founder	Kaiser Permanente
Headquarters	Washington, D.C. , United States
Area served	Central North Carolina and northeastern and western Pennsylvania
Key people	Jaewon Ryu (CEO)
Owner	Kaiser Permanente
Number of employees	39,500
Subsidiaries	Cone Health Geisinger Health System
Website	risanthealth.org

Description

Risant was seeded with a $5 billion investment from Oakland, California-based Kaiser to build "a value-based technology platform, a suite of capabilities to improve how and where patients get their care."^[1]

Risant has acquired Cone Health, headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina and Geisinger Health System, headquartered in Danville, Pennsylvania.^[2][3] Each health network will retain its own branding and will not adopt the Risant or Kaiser brand.^[4]

Risant, via Cone Health, serves people in Guilford County, North Carolina, Rockingham County, North Carolina, Forsyth County, North Carolina, Alamance County, North Carolina and surrounding counties in central North Carolina and, via Geisinger Health System, in Danville, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, State College and surrounding counties in northeastern and western Pennsylvania.^[5][6]

Risant's chief executive officer (CEO) is Jaewon Ryu, former CEO of Geisinger.^[7]