'We don't need to be bigger for the sake of being bigger'.

Abstract

Kaiser Permanente features basketball star Steph Curry in a new mental-health ad campaign that illustrates how even the Golden State shooting phenom must overcome doubts about his game. Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest Integrated health system, has made mental-health awareness a priority this year as It seeks to promote the total health of the Individuals and communities It serves, according to Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson. Earlier this year, Tyson sat down with Southern Bureau Chief Dave Barkholz in San Francisco, just across the bay from Kaiser Permanente's Oakland headquarters, to discuss mental health, the social determinants of health and Kaiser Permanente's always-active expansion strategy. The following is an edited transcript.