The Kaiser Permanente James A. Vohs Award for Quality is presented each year to honor programs that advance quality of care and demonstrate transferable, innovative techniques and knowledge. This year's award was presented to Kaiser Permanente's Northern and Southern California Regions for their Community Implementation and Translation of KP’s ALL/PHASE Program that reduces heart attacks and strokes in diabetic patients.
See a showcase of the extraordinary and inspirational efforts of the 2008 David Lawrence Community Service Award Winners--Kaiser Permanente employees and physicians who exemplify our commitment to improving the health of our communities. To learn more about their work, visit our Get Involved page.
A Kaiser Permanente-supported weekly farmers market in the LA's Watts neighborhood brings fresh fruits, vegetables, and tips on healthy eating to community residents. Features scenes from the market and the voices of local public health officials.
John McLaughlin explores health disparities on his "One on One" program. Guests are Dr. Ray Baxter, Kaiser Permanente's senior vice president for community benefit, and Dr. Donald Wilson, Dean Emeritus, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Kaiser Permanente's short video on health disparities shows some of the causes and costs of differences that result in poor health outcomes, and offers solutions to this nationwide problem.
A short preview of this groundbreaking PBS documentary that explores how the social conditions in which Americans are born, live, and work profoundly affect health and longevity, even more than medical care, behaviors, and genes.
John McLaughlin explores health disparities on his "One on One" program. Guests are Dr. Ray Baxter, Kaiser Permanente's senior vice president for community benefit, and Dr. Donald Wilson, Dean Emeritus, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
At Kaiser Permanente, we are here to make lives better. In 2007 and again in 2008 a group of people from Kaiser Permanente headed to Mississippi and Louisiana to honor the pledge we made to help with the long-term Hurricane Katrina recovery and rebuilding efforts. There, they worked on a series of community building projects organized by the Hands On Network affiliates in Biloxi, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2009, Kaiser Permanente will again return to the gulf coast to lead two seven-day service projects to help local residents continue to recover from the devastation that the hurricanes inflicted on the Gulf Coast in 2005.
Winston Wong, Medical Director, Community Benefit and Director, Disparities Improvement and Quality Initiatives, discusses the ALL protocol and how a grant from Kaiser Permanente was instrumental in rolling out this innovative, cost-effective approach to treating diabetes and reducing stroke and heart disease.
Kaiser Permanente partners with community clinics, public hospitals and neighborhood health centers to deliver medical services to low-income residents and provide access to care for those who need it. Features clinic shots and the voices of community health experts.
At the Venice Family Clinic, Kaiser Permanente physician Dr. Hara directs a UCLA/USC residency program that educates doctors at the same time it places them in community clinics to meet the needs of underserved populations.
Ray Baxter, Senior Vice President, Community Benefit, Research and Health Policy explains why ensuring good health extends beyond our doors.
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In East Los Angeles, Kaiser Permanente partners with UMMA, the University Muslim Medical Association to provide financial support and direct patient care to provide a medical home for an impoverished and medically underserved community.
In partnership with the Weingart Center in LA's Skid Row, a team of Kaiser Permanente radiologists reads chest x-rays daily free of charge, ensuring the homeless are scanned for TB and can get a bed and a hot meal. Each year more than 4,000 films are read.
