History
In 1999 DaVita was known as Total Renal Care (TRC), a dialysis company on the brink of bankruptcy. That year, Kent Thiry joined TRC as CEO and the company was restructured and renamed DaVita. The name DaVita – which is Italian for “giving life” – was chosen by the employees who also voted on and selected the company’s core values. DaVita was featured as a Stanford Business School case.
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