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Amar Desai, M.D., Returns to DaVita HealthCare Partners

DVA | June 13, 2016

Named President for HealthCare Partners' California Coastal Region

PR Newswire

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 13, 2016

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE: DVA), a leading independent medical group in the United States and leading global provider of kidney care services, today announced that Amar Desai, M.D., has returned to the company assuming the role of president for HealthCare Partners' California Coastal region.

Desai returns to DaVita HealthCare Partners after more than two years serving as CEO of the University of Southern California (USC) Medical Group and Ambulatory Services.

"We're thrilled to welcome Amar back to the DaVita HealthCare Partners Village," said Jim Rechtin, HealthCare Partners' California market president. "He brings a wealth of knowledge and leadership experience in driving growth and clinical innovation in health care organizations, including a successful previous tenure with DaVita Kidney Care leading the corporate strategy team."

In his new role, Desai has oversight over group and independent physician association operations in the South Bay, Long Beach and Orange County communities. He also oversees national clinician recruitment efforts.

"I am delighted to be back. This is clearly a dynamic time in health care and few organizations have redefined the platform for delivering compassionate, highly coordinated care in the way HealthCare Partners has," said Desai. "It is an incredible privilege to join this team. I look forward to building the leading medical group in America and making HealthCare Partners the practice of choice for physicians."

Desai earned his bachelor's and medical degrees at Brown University and his master's degree in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed an internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.

Desai has held faculty appointments at the Stanford School of Medicine and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He currently serves as associate clinical professor of medicine at Keck School of Medicine at USC.

About DaVita HealthCare Partners
DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., a Fortune 500® company, is the parent company of DaVita Kidney Care and HealthCare Partners. HealthCare Partners manages and operates medical groups and affiliated physician networks in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, Colorado and Washington in its pursuit to deliver excellent-quality health care in a dignified and compassionate manner. As of March 31, 2016 HealthCare Partners provided integrated care management for approximately 790,000 patients. DaVita Kidney Care is a leading provider of kidney care in the United States, delivering dialysis services to patients with chronic kidney failure and end stage renal disease. As of March 31, 2016, DaVita Kidney Care operated or provided administrative services at 2,278 outpatient dialysis centers located in the United States serving approximately 180,000 patients. The company also operated 124 outpatient dialysis centers located in 10 countries outside the United States. For more information, please visit DaVitaHealthCarePartners.com.