Achieving Kaiser Permanente quality

Kaiser, Garfield, and Permanente.

Henry J. Kaiser developed an extensive and complex industrial empire. During the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, he began an association with Sidney Garfield, MD, that resulted in the prototype of the modern health maintenance organization. Kaiser Permanente, directed by Garfield, survived a confrontation with organized medicine in the postwar years and then expanded rapidly...

EDITORIAL COMMENTS 1 Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect Crossing the Quality Chasm

The Kaiser Permanente Shoulder Arthroplasty Registry

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2015.1024565 Background and purpose — Shoulder arthroplasty is being performed in the United States with increasing frequency. We describe the med...

Kaiser Permanente Institutes of Preventive Medicine.

I am pleased and honored to be Guest Editor of this special issue of The Permanente Journal. In my 36th year of association with Kaiser Permanente (KP), no one is more surprised than I that I have spent the majority of that time in Preventive Medicine, far from Infectious Diseases, where I started. While physicians readily give lip service to Preventive Medicine, it is often considered a dull, ...

Kaiser Permanente National Hand Hygiene Program.

OBJECTIVE Hand hygiene has historically been identified as an important intervention for preventing infection acquired in health care settings. Recently, the advent of waterless, alcohol-based skin degermer and elimination of artificial nails have been recognized as other important interventions for preventing infection. Supplied with this information, the National Infection Control Peer Group ...