How to pronounce“davita”in English

DaVita Redwood Program which is a program Kent's put in place that sounds phenomenal where I guess now over 50 Harvard and Stanford MBAs have joined

DaVita in a leadership track that helps develop Harvard and Stanford MBAs in line environments to grow their leadership skills.

At DaVita people sometimes say, well what matters more keeping the profits up and the stock price up, or the village?

At DaVita people some times say, well what matters more keeping the profits up and the stock price up or the village?

at DaVita anymore.

and also for DaVita Health, which is developing kidney dialysis equipment.

to be a DaVita leader.

Every executive at DaVita, whenever you're any place where there's more eight teammates, you have to do a town hall.

But I believe that the DaVita village has made me a better human being.

Do you want to go adopt the legacy DaVita vision, mission and values?

And two of the quotes that we use at DaVita where we try to grow not only business leaders but life leaders, one was already cited by

John: I remember that decision when you decided to go to DaVita.

of the new company, DaVita, which means he or she gives life.

assumption, unspoken assumption among lots -- among the DaVita people is that we would never devest one of our centers, we would only devest from the company

And we -- but we had to customize things that when I took over DaVita, my wife said, we're not gonna move to L.A. and the company was

So, what's one thing we do at DaVita is it's a rule.

So we are very open about it, that we don't get to create the DaVita University that our people love, with a tremendous emphasis on personal reflection and

But since he does have a 700 slugging percentage, the stock of DaVita has gone up 26 fold since he's taken on this -- the role of CEO.

Now, we have a saying at DaVita that we wanna be a community first and a company second, that we wanna be a community that just happens to be

friend, inspiration and for those -- you all that work for DaVita know, he's also probably the most exceptional leader I've ever seen in terms of just hands on

be saying that to get -- there'll come a day when you say you're not gonna work at DaVita anymore maybe because you're retiring, or 'cause your spouse is

Umm, back when I -- when I first came to DaVita it was a company that had lost 90 percent of its market value, was functionally bankrupt,

Not many people ever think of a dialysis company, so for DaVita, on behalf of our 29,000 teammates, thank you for giving us a chance to

And I think it's a better way to have a shot at retaining, and at DaVita, with 30,000 people spread across about 1800 locations,

So, when we started at DaVita seven years ago, we went out and remember, this is a turnaround.

I personally do lots and lots of town halls everywhere, all over DaVita every year.

We have wonderful people in our company, health care partners, they have wonderful people in legacy, DaVita.

So, still on the subject of exporting the culture, you've taken DaVita now internationally.

And when you do the divestitures, what the FTC requires, is that you either divest all of the legacy Davita centers or all of the new companies'.

If the other company that we're buying has got a group that's on the ascendancy, that is a clear long-term winner, then we will divest the legacy DaVita centers.

That often, for me the most special ones, and often the remarks of the people who get it will say that I've been at DaVita six years and I'm a better daddy.

And of course people in a community what their village, which is what we're called, the DaVita Village and I'm the mayor, they want it

And because, uh, because we had -- we were such a tight culture, the DaVita village, the teammates and citizens of the village that the

I will have to say one thing, though, to the dean that within DaVita, if you call the musketeer clothing a costume instead of

And so, just as a village, which is what we call ourselves, the DaVita Village, just as in a village, it doesn't do you any

So the name, the logo, the core values all came from the people of DaVita.