Kaiser Permanente

As any country Germany does have some setbacks whereas the U.S. have been able evolve at a faster rate. Since there are no physician networks or a set of providers that the German population are tied to, the continuity of care is not substantial. The German population suffers setbacks from physician and clinician inconsistency. Also, this makes the previous medical records non accessible since none of the providers are linked. Redundancy of care becomes a big issue because physicians order…

top of their work, it does help aid in staying organized when you have a busy schedule and many other classes and other assignments that are due. Other than that, the quick email and DB responses are always a plus/positive. I am also interning at Kaiser at GSAA (Fremont, Union City, Hayward,…

The documentary Food Choices: How Our Diet Affects the Environment produced by Michal Siewierski and Kaiser Permanente, a non-for-profit health plan, while different non-fiction forms of communication that share a common mission of providing important information on the effects of the food we eat and how changing our diet can improve our lives. The documentary Food Choices advocates the benefits of eating a plant-based diet and begins by discrediting long believed myths about eating land animals…

deliverable, I attended a free health care seminar /workshop/ conference/webinar or professional association meeting. On March 30, 2016, the Kaiser Permanente Learning (KP Learn) department offered a seminar based on the book and educational series by Dr. Steven R Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The seminar was held at the Kaiser Permanente Franklin Medical Office from 8am to 5pm. I chose to go to this seminar as they are a good way to network with others in the same field…

consistenly surpasses all the quality measures set by CMS and is ranked 19th in California and #1 in Riverside metro area, according to the U.S. Health News. ARMC is currently not ranked. Kaiser Permanente is a well-recognized organization that is known for its quality care and is always ahead of the innovative curve. Kaiser Permanente’s integrated system and robust primary care system has been proven very successful for them and very challenging for their competitors. KPMC’s payor mix is very…

there have been significant changes to trans-specific healthcare coverage, which can be attributed to the clarification of Senate Bill 2 and the state and federal mandates. In this paper I will discuss the laws more in-depth, how they affect Kaiser Permanente specifically, and some recommendations on how to support fully inclusive healthcare. Background In 2007 a law to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender…

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Kaiser decided to implement a system that was not designed for such a large-scale organization, so basically they pushed the program to its fit the size of the organization. It is expensive to maintain and eventually it will tiptop its value at one point…

After watching the movie “Sicko” by Michael Moore and reading Understanding American Politics by Stephen Brooks I seem to be baffled about what a lot of foreigners are when referring to American politics and society. One being, our government and how hypocritical they are for instance, The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement And Modernization Act passed in 2003, In “Sicko”, the legislation allowed drug companies the freedom to charge what they deemed fit. Looking at it from every angle…

organizations University of Washington (UW) Medicine, Providence St. Joseph Health, and Kaiser Permanente formerly Group Health Cooperative. These three organizations who are fighting over market shares in Seattle have all faced budget shortfalls in recent years which have lead to waves of layoffs, high leadership turnover, clinic closures, and in the case of Group Health, an acquisition by Kaiser Permanente which essentially dissolves the iconic cooperative, founded nearly 70 years ago with the…