Beauty Bus is honoring Prime Healthcare and Dr. Kavitha Bhatia

Caring for communities has never been more important than now as we come together to address the COVID-19 pandemic. As Chair of Prime’s National COVID-19 Committee, Dr. Kavitha Bhatia’s steadfast leadership continues to guide Prime through this global pandemic – testing, caring for, and vaccinating nearly a million people across the country and providing humanitarian aid across the world.

Beauty Bus Foundation’s mission to deliver loving kindness, support, and compassion to seriously ill patients and caregivers align with Prime’s commitment to providing compassionate, quality care to every patient in every community. Prime is proud to partner with Beauty Bus Foundation and is honored to join Cedars-Saini, Providence, UCLA Health, and others to provide patients with these meaningful services.

Please consider donating to Beauty Bus Foundation in honor of Prime Healthcare and join us in supporting them and the work they do.

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Learn more about Dr. Kavitha Bhatia

Kavitha Bhatia, MD, MMM, FAAP, FACHE

President and Chair, Prime Healthcare Foundation &

Chief Medical Officer of Strategy, Prime Healthcare

Dr. Kavitha Bhatia is President and Chair of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity dedicated to improving healthcare through its hospitals and educational and charitable initiatives.

Fourteen of Prime Healthcare’s 45 hospitals are members of the Prime Healthcare Foundation that provides quality healthcare, philanthropy, and service to communities. The Prime Healthcare Foundation has provided more than $2 billion in charity care and sponsors local and global initiatives to forward its mission of improving the lives of others through healthcare and education. The Prime Healthcare Foundation, through a $60 million donation, established the California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM) in 2018, a private, non-profit medical school in Southern California with a mission to advance medicine, improve the health of communities, and inspire service in underserved areas. Dr. Bhatia serves as Founding Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at CUSM as well as Associate Professor of Medical Education in the CUSM School of Medicine.

In addition to her role as President and Chair of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, Dr. Bhatia also serves as Chief Medical Officer of Strategy for Prime Healthcare, an award-winning health system with 45 hospitals in 14 states. She develops and implements strategic initiatives that advance the mission and long-term success of Prime Healthcare. Dr. Bhatia works with Corporate and hospital leaders to align goals, prioritize system-wide value creation, and implement strategic initiatives to ensure Prime’s continued operational, financial, and clinical success.

A leader in healthcare, Dr. Bhatia is a pediatrician and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the California Hospital Association and is a member of the American Medical Women’s Association, the American Medical Association, the Los Angeles County Medical Association, the UCLA Medical Alumni Association, the Los Angeles Pediatric Society, and Chief. Dr. Bhatia also serves as a Governing Board Member of the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), and a member of the FAH’s Quality and Emergency Preparedness committees.

Among her academic accomplishments, Dr. Bhatia graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa scholar with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology and Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego. She earned her medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine, ranked #7 in the nation, where she graduated with Honors and Letters of Distinction in Doctoring. Dr. Bhatia also holds a Certificate in Healthcare Strategy from Harvard Business School and earned a Master of Medical Management from the USC Marshall School of Business. She has been a scholar at world-renowned institutions such as Mass General, Boston Children’s Hospital, the All India Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Bhatia’s philanthropic and community endeavors include serving as a member of the Board of Trustees at Curtis School in Los Angeles; Founding Board Member of The Association; a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), and Grand Benefactor at World Children’s Initiative. In service to communities across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bhatia led the Prime Healthcare system as Chair of both the National COVID Committee and COVID 24/7 Command Center.

Committed to improving the health and lives of others, Dr. Bhatia is a dedicated philanthropist. Her experiences include caring for the sick and dying in the slums of Calcutta to teaching inner-city youth. For her work with the Missionaries of Charity, she was awarded a Miraculous Medallion from Mother Teresa. In addition to World Children’s Initiative, Dr. Bhatia has served in advisory roles for national and global causes such as Project Heart Uganda. She is also the Executive Director of the Dr. Prem Reddy Family Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to improving healthcare and providing educational opportunities which include annual scholarship programs for underserved students and educational grants.

An authority in her field, Dr. Bhatia has been recognized among the nation’s physician leaders, earning “100 CMOs to Know” in Becker’s Hospital Review in 2020 and “Top Pediatrician” by Top Women in Medicine. She was also recognized as an “Inspirational Woman” by the LA Times in 2021 and among Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Top Women Leaders in Healthcare” in 2020 and “Top Doctor” and a “Woman of Influence” in 2021.