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Kaiser Permanente Opening New IT Campus

By TechTaffy Desk

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Kaiser Permanente is opening an information technology (IT) campus in Greenwood Village, Colorado, in January 2013. The company has begun recruiting and hiring staff for this campus.

Approximately 500 IT staff will be hired in Colorado by 2015, bringing Kaiser Permanente’s total IT presence in Colorado to about 700 employees. Kaiser Permanente employs approximately 6,000 IT professionals nationwide.

The Kaiser Permanente IT office will be located in a 120,000-square-foot, five-story building at 6560 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard in Greenwood Village.

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