A sad ending and very mixed feelings.
Pros
The best reasons to work for Kaiser Permanente-West Los Angeles would be the following: you like following rules, you enjoy structure and stability (after your first three years of uncertainty of course when you can be fired for any reason), and you crave certainly. Once you make partner anything short of a felony conviction cannot get rid of you. As long as you show up for work and do the bare minimum (and you don't mind the scorn of your peers and the occasional talking to) you can stay until retirement and finish with a cushy pension and retirement account. The number of sick days allowed are enormous, as are the number of vacation days. Bad behavior is not punished but rather rewarded as long as it does not cross over the line legally. If you have no conscience and want to practice medicine of least resistance, by all means, join this company..... Compensation is generous however if you add up the insurance and the sick/vacation leave. Work life balance is touted but is quite the joke. The pay structure for primary care is such that you are paid for 8 hours of clinic a day no matter how long you work. I generally worked 10-11 hours and was uncompensated so my real pay was much lower. The specialists are paid differently ( I know this because I was married to one and he would be paid for every moment he stepped into the building, and at higher and higher rates depending on the lateness of the hour).
Cons
Please see above. Somehow my pros devolved into cons. Upper management was so top heavy that it could barely balance. After 5-7 years there few people wanted to do the actual work of doctoring and tried to make the jump into administration with varying results. The overarching result however was that there were too few people seeing patients and too many people giving presentations.