The Workforce AI Index · Healthcare
DaVita Inc. (DVA)
Dialysis provider, one pattern. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-11. Ranked 6 of the 27 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 78,000 teammates with 72% in the U.S. and one business, dialysis care, so one outpatient care pattern carries the workforce (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 32% now, 40% at the end of 2027, 43% at the end of 2028, 45% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 45% desk work, 30% people work and 25% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 55% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 36% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
78,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing states approximately 72% of teammates are located within the U.S.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 78,000 teammates, including our international teammates, with approximately 72% of our teammates located within the U.S.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Outpatient Care Centers | 100% | By description (c): dialysis centers and related services, with its revenue reported as U.S. dialysis and related lab services, and no count by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 78,000 teammates including international, 72% in the U.S.; about 12,000 direct patient care teammates promoted through the clinical career path in 2025; 78% women in the U.S.
What the filing says about AI
13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 13 sentences: AI to be used for personalized development of teammates, evolving laws on AI and machine learning, and AI among the forces that could change clinical practice.
- “In addition, federal and state laws governing the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are evolving.”
- “Amongst these capabilities will be leveraging artificial intelligence to increase access to personalized development for our teammates, ensuring they have resources to support their career objectives.”
- “We are therefore subject to risks relating to potential drivers of changes to these industry averages or utilization rates, including among other things, changes in physician prescribing practices, including in response to the introduction of new drugs, treatments or technologies, changes in best and/or accepted clinical practice, changes resulting from the use of artificial intelligence to sup...”
- “For example, healthcare companies, including our Company and certain of our third-party service providers, strategic partners, consultants and contractors, are increasingly incorporating into information technology capabilities machine learning or automation for real-time prevention utilizing artificial intelligence for anomaly-based detection, among other uses.”
- “Threat actors continue to evolve their methods with ever increasing sophistication, and are also increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence and other technologies as part of their efforts to infiltrate information systems.”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 78,000 | 2026-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 76,000 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 70,000 | 2024-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 70,000 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 69,000 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 67,000 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 65,000 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 77,700 | 2019-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 74,500 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 70,300 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 60,400 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 57,900 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 57,400 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 53,400 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | not read | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | not read | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | not read | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | not read | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 140 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | not read | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | not read | 2006-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | not read | 2005-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | not read | 2004-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | not read | 2003-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 12,700 | 2002-03-01 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 12,200 | 2001-03-20 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 12,300 | 2000-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 12,300 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 8,830 | 1998-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 3,125 | 1997-03-11 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by kind of work; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
- About 28% of teammates are abroad; the pattern applies abroad because the work is the same in kind (rule 7).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000927066-26-000012, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of DaVita Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 32% now and 43% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce DaVita Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does DaVita Inc. employ?
- 78,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 72% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up DaVita Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Outpatient Care Centers; by those patterns the work is about 45% desk work, 30% people work and 25% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does DaVita Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 13 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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