Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
Kotaku (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
What better way for insurance company Kaiser Permanente to promote a healthy lifestyle than strapping television monitors playing Wii Sports to the heads of its marketing team? Members of the Kaiser...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Columbian immigrant Cesar Herrera rides his bicycle to and from work every day – not by choice, but by necessity. Herrera is part of a large community of day laborers whose primary mode of transportation is a bicycle. With the increase of cyclists sharing the road with motorists and the recent daylight saving time change, there is a greater need for cyclists...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins. In those five minutes, the 23-year-old California State University, Sacramento, student was hooked up to life support monitors, air pumped into his weakened lungs as he bled on a gurney. Hospital officials said Hawkins was given the highest level of emergency care, with a phalanx...
The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Kaiser Permanente’s health plan and hospital units said late Friday that third-quarter profits soared to $569 million and profits through the first nine months skyrocketed to $1.6 billion.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The results of Ms. Gage Lofgren's hard work have been dramatic; there was a 246 percent increase in positive media news mentions 2006 over 2008, and a 191 percent increase from 2007 to 2008. She established a national speakers' bureau and issues council for Kaiser Permanente, and created an overarching message architecture to ensure consistency across the organization. She encourages the use of social...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
ANNE CHADWICK WILLIAMS awilliams@sacbee.com Workers at Vision Service Plan in Rancho Cordova put walking in their workday. From left, Joanne Luong, Mae Fong, Jeanneane Crabb, Judy Goss and Lydia Alicea. They're taking long walks during their lunch breaks, enjoying healthier food from their cafeterias and commissaries, and keeping body and mind fit with yoga and Pilates. And their employers, familiar...
jobsanger (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Winter is coming on fast and people are starting to get worried about the second round of the H1N1 virus. A few months ago, a vaccine was created. This was good news, but enough couldn't be made in time for everyone to get the immunization at the same time, so the CDC created a list of those who should receive the first batches of the vaccine. The following groups were to receive the vaccine before...
The Sacramento Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Despite continued decline in enrollment, Kaiser Permanente generated net income of $1.6 billion for the first nine months of the year, almost eight times the $202 million in net income reported for the same period last year.
2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Kaiser Permanente. Ezra Klein interviewed Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson this week – and got two fascinating posts out of it so far (with the second part of the interview still to come.) The most interesting post for me was the one that included a number of graphs, including this one. Ezra bills these charts [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The $10-million, 15,000-square-foot building will provide primary care and some specialty care to 80,000 members of the healthcare organization who live in the area. Kaiser Permanente unveiled plans Thursday for a $10-million medical office building that will offer primary care, some specialty care and other services to 80,000 South Los Angeles residents who are members of Kaiser's healthcare plan....
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Furor continues to grow over distribution of the vaccine. State official defends decision to give vaccine to some private providers like Kaiser Permanente and not to others. If H1N1 flu vaccine shortages persist, California may not be able to vaccinate those most at risk by the end of December, public health officials said Thursday, amid furor over how the vaccine has been distributed so far.
The Pacific Business News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is seeking an average 10.7 percent rate hike for approximately 150,000 members next year.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a late night of texting or updating Facebook, it's hardly surprising that many teenagers show up groggy for school, which studies have shown can diminish academic performance. To address this troubling trend, UC Berkeley's Sleep and Psychological Disorders Laboratory -- in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente, Oregon -- has begun recruiting middle and high school students for a...
Ted Eytan, MD (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Below are high quality images of the slides I presented at the Informatics for Consumer Health Summit, at the Bolger Center for Leadership , in Potomac, MD. ... This presentation will probably look familiar; there are new slides that show the very impressive breast cancer screening rates achieved in Kaiser Permanente regions, and most notably, Hawaii, which achieved a rate of 85 %, which ranks it...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local community leaders including Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles City Councilmember Bernard Parks and St. John’s Well Child & Family Center Executive Director Jim Mangia came together today to imprint their hands in decorative tiles that will become a permanent element of the future Kaiser Permanente South Los Angeles Medical Offices. The symbolic...
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