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DENVER, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Most people who have diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol have difficultly managing all three conditions; indeed, success is fleeting for those who do manage all three, according to a Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Research study that appears online in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The study of close to 29,000 individuals enrolled at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and...

PORTLAND, Ore., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleven integrated health systems, with more than 16 million members, have combined de-identified data from their electronic health records to form one of the largest, most comprehensive and most geographically diverse diabetes registries in the nation. According to a new study published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Preventing Chronic Disease, the SUPREME-DM DataLink provides a unique and powerful resource to...

OAKLAND, Calif. May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente has been honored with a System for Change Award from Practice Greenhealth, the national membership organization for health care organizations committed to environmentally responsible operations. The System for Change Award recognizes health systems that are working to gather data, set system goals, benchmark and share successes in environmental performance. "This award recognizes the tremendous efforts by Kaiser Permanente...

PORTLAND, Ore., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente Northwest announced today the appointment of Jay Gusick as executive director of Brand Strategy, Communications and Public Relations. In this new role, Gusick will be responsible for brand management, corporate communications, public relations, media relations, community events, and creative services functions, including the expansion of social media and mobile communications strategy. Gusick comes to Kaiser...

State-of-the-Art Facility Features over 30 Medical Specialties under One Roof ROCKVILLE, Md., March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, a leading not-for-profit health plan and care provider, opens the doors to its new Gaithersburg Medical Center today, March 19, 2012, offering Montgomery County, Maryland members more medical services conveniently located under one roof. "The new Gaithersburg Medical Center is Kaiser Permanente's...

DENVER, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente Colorado, the state's largest non-profit health plan, has announced the locations of its new medical office buildings opening this fall in Fort Collins and Loveland. Kaiser Permanente medical offices in Fort Collins will be located at 2950 Harmony Road, on the northwest corner of Harmony and Ziegler Roads. In Loveland, medical offices will be located just east of the intersection of I-25 and Highway 34, at 4901 Thompson...

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Less than one year after announcing a new initiative to securely exchange electronic health data, the five innovative and leading health systems that make up the Care Connectivity Consortium, will demonstrate their data exchange technology and process at the 2012 Annual Health Information Management Systems Society Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Feb. 20-24. The Care Connectivity Consortium, which consists of Geisinger Health System (Penn.),...

OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth straight year, Kaiser Permanente is the only health plan in California to earn a four-star rating--the highest possible--for overall quality of care in the Healthcare Quality Report Card from the California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA). Kaiser Permanente in both Northern and Southern California also received four stars--the highest possible rating--in the "Members Rate their HMO" category, which measures patient...

OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grants totaling $29.4 million were awarded by Kaiser Permanente in the fourth quarter to 725 organizations that are bringing meaningful and timely solutions to the communities they serve. This brings total grantmaking to $68 million for 2011. "There is a deep connection between Kaiser Permanente and the communities where our members, physicians and employees make their homes," said Raymond J. Baxter, senior vice president, Community...

Scoring above the state average in 14 of 22 measures ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States is the highest scoring health maintenance organization (HMO) in the Maryland Health Care Commission's (MHCC) 2011 Health Benefit Plan Performance Report: Measuring the Quality of Maryland Commercial Health Benefit Plans. Kaiser Permanente had the highest number of top rankings, scoring above the state average in 14 of 22...