A more than 30-year health care industry veteran, Kerry Kohnen will serve as Kaiser Permanente of Georgia’s new president.

Kohnen has been with Kaiser for 35-plus years, recently serving as senior vice president of operations for Kaiser Permanente of Georgia.

Kaiser, the largest nonprofit health plan in Georgia, has more than 240,000 members with 28 medical facilities and affiliated hospitals in a 28-county metro Atlanta service area.

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