Alva Wheatley | Kaiser Permanente
Channel: Kaiser Permanente
Date: 2017-02-28

Alva Wheatley retired from Kaiser Permanente in 1995 after 31 years of service. She was the first woman of color to serve as a Kaiser Permanente hospital administrator, and was the first female vice president of facilities construction, both for the Health Plan and throughout the building industry. She was the first woman of color on the Northern California Kaiser Permanente regional leadership team and the first black person and first woman to serve as Health Plan national vice president. She was also the first executive responsible for Kaiser Permanente’s diversity program and is co-founder of the Kaiser Permanente African-American Professionals Association established in 1990.