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National Feature Stories — 2010

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12/30/10 Watch slideshow now! Celebrating Kaiser Permanente’s Community Benefit Work in 2010
12/22/10 The Holidays Can be Stressful for Those Who Try to do Too Much
12/17/10 Kaiser Permanente Doctor Blogs about Recent Trip to Haiti
12/15/10 Philip Fasano Promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Kaiser Permanente
12/10/10 Bernard Tyson Promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer of Kaiser Permanente
12/7/10 Denver B-cycle Finishes Successful First Season with 102,981 Rides
12/7/10 Kaiser Permanente Reaped 136 Percent ROI with Performance Improvement System
12/3/10 Smoking Widespread Among Youth with Diabetes, Raising Heart Disease Risk
12/1/10 Key Medicare Changes: How to Choose the Right Medicare Plan for You
12/1/10 Watch slideshow now! Study Finds Medical Device Registries Enhance Patient Safety and Quality of Care
12/1/10 16 Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Dominate ‘Leapfrog Top Hospitals’ of 2010
11/30/10 Kaiser Permanente Announces Major Investment in Oakland Community and its Children
11/18/10 Hormone Therapy Use May Increase or Decrease Dementia Risk Depending Upon Timing
11/11/10 Kaiser Permanente Announces 2011 Medicare Plans
11/10/10 Listen Now! An Interview with Dr. Ernie Bodai, Creator of the Breast Cancer Stamp
11/5/10 Physician Alerts Reduce Unnecessary Blood Testing in Elderly Patients
11/3/10 Watch slideshow now!  60 Sustainable Seconds with Karl Hickethier, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco
11/3/10 New Evidence Supports Kaiser Permanente’s Environmental Approach to Obesity Prevention
11/2/10 Watch slideshow now!  Kaiser Permanente Awards Approximately $16 Million in Community Benefit Grants
10/28/10 Exposure to BPA Associated with Reduced Semen Quality
10/27/10 Watch now! Kaiser Expert on Early Puberty Appears on ‘Dr. Oz Show’
10/27/10 Kaiser Permanente Acknowledges HIV/AIDS Prevention Work at 33rd Annual National Diversity Conference
10/25/10 Heavy Smoking Doubles Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia Risk
10/25/10 Heart Disease Prevention Program Saves Lives and Reduces Costs, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
10/21/10 Watch now! Kaiser Permanente Colorado Is One of the Top Medicare Plans in the Nation
10/21/10 Kaiser Permanente Medicare and Medicaid Health Plans Among Nation’s Elite
10/13/10 Kaiser Permanente Hosts ‘Food For Health Forum’ Featuring Sustainable Food Experts and Innovators
10/13/10 Kaiser Permanente’s ALL/PHASE Initiative Wins 2010 Care Continuum Alliance Quality Impact Award for Greatest Impact on Health
10/12/10 Metabolic Status Before Pregnancy Predicts Subsequent Gestational Diabetes
10/11/10 Kaiser Permanente Leads the Nation in 12 Quality Measures
10/7/10 Report on Future of Nursing Holds Up Kaiser Permanente as Model
10/5/10 Five Questions for … Nurse Christine Collins, Creator of ‘Blue Wrap’ Recycling Program
10/1/10 Innovative Web-Based Tool Helps Doctors Improve Care
10/1/10 Watch now! Kaiser Permanente Supports International Safe Routes to School Day on Oct. 6
9/29/10 Watch now! Kaiser Permanente Opens Access to Internal Medical Terminology to Help Others Meet U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Goals for Better Use of Health Information Technology
9/24/10 Kaiser Permanente Speakers Offer Insight on Health Care Reform and Workforce Health at Benefits Forum and Expo
9/23/10 Kaiser Permanente’s Sharon Levine, MD, Appointed to Board of Governors for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
9/21/10 Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Preston Maring Featured in New York Times Profile
9/20/10 Kaiser Permanente Health Plans Among Nation’s Best in ‘NCQA’s Health Insurance Plan Rankings 2010–2011 — Private’
9/17/10 Watch now! Kaiser Permanente Colorado Is One of America’s Top Private Health Plans
9/15/10 Northern California Surgeon Who Conceived Breast Cancer Stamp Nominated for Congressional Gold Medal
9/1/10 Watch now! Kaiser Permanente Highlights the Importance of Integrated Health Care with New Ads Debuting in September
8/23/10 New Book, Connected for Health Examines Kaiser Permanente’s Groundbreaking Electronic Health Record System
8/19/10 Northern California Pediatrician Blogs from Remote African Village
8/18/10 Watch now! Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Consultancy Featured in Harvard Business Review
8/16/10 Kaiser Permanente’s 2009 Annual Report Now Available Online
8/13/10 Kaiser Permanente’s Care Delivery and Research Support Breastfeeding to Promote Healthy Families
8/12/10 Watch now!  Budding Rembrandts’ Collection Shows Children’s Perspective on Wartime
8/4/10 Kaiser Permanente Issues $13 Million in Community Benefit Grants
7/30/10 Kaiser Permanente’s 2009 Community Benefit Report Now Available Online
7/27/10 The More Frequently You Log On, the More Weight You Can Keep Off
7/26/10 Watch slideshow now!  60 Sustainable Seconds with Robert Gotto, Kaiser Permanente Procurement and Supply
7/22/10 Kaiser Permanente Demonstrates Success of Large-Scale Total Joint Replacement Registry
7/20/10 Shopping, Cooking and Snacking: Kaiser Permanente Dietitian Shares Healthy Tips for Families
7/16/10 Kaiser Permanente and La Maestra Community Health Center Celebrate Ribbon Cutting of Innovative ‘Green’ Clinic
7/12/10 Women with a History of Gestational Diabetes Have Increased Risk of Recurrence in Subsequent Pregnancies, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
7/9/10 Kaiser Permanente Speakers Address Strategic HR Issues, Workforce Health at Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference
7/9/10 Extremely Obese Children Have 40 Percent Higher Risk of Reflux Disease of Esophagus
7/7/10 Use of Health Information Technology Leads to Improved Care Quality
7/1/10 Watch video now!  For the Holiday Weekend: Tips on Staying Safe While Having Fun in the Sun
6/28/10 Combination MMRV Vaccine Associated with Two-Fold Risk of Febrile Seizures Compared with Separate MMR & Varicella Vaccines
6/25/10
6/24/10 Automated Telephone Reminders Increase Colon Cancer Screenings
6/21/10 Watch video now!  CEO George Halvorson Interviewed on CNBC
6/21/10 Kaiser Permanente Recognized By Three Publications As A “Best Place to Work”
6/9/10 Watch video now!  Heart Attacks Declined 24 Percent in Kaiser Permanente Northern California Since 2000
6/7/10 Kaiser Permanente Named the First Health and Hospital System to Earn a Perfect Rating on the Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index
6/4/10 Listen now! Kaiser Permanente Researchers Creating Largest Ever Cohort to Study the Experience of People with Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation
6/2/10 Kaiser Permanente Honored for Health Information Technology Innovation with CIO 100 Award
6/2/10 Community Interventions and In-Home Visits May Slow Excess Weight Gain In American Indian Children
5/27/10 Increasing BPA Levels In Urine Associated with Worsening Male Sexual Function
5/24/10 Kaiser Permanente History Champion Receives National Park Service Award
5/21/10 Home Health Monitoring May Significantly Improve Blood Pressure Control, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
5/19/10 Limited Health Literacy Increases Safety Risks for Patients with Diabetes
5/17/10 Kaiser Permanente Wins Awards for Commitment to Environmental Health
5/13/10 Care Coordination and Electronic Medical Records Aggressively Lower Patient’s Cholesterol, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
5/12/10 Kaiser Permanente Among Health Care Systems to Launch the Healthier Hospitals Initiative
5/11/10 Kaiser Permanente Simulation Training Featured on CNBC and Fox
5/10/10 Listen now! Kaiser Permanente Physician Touts Importance of Fitness and Exercise for a Healthy Workforce
5/7/10 Kaiser Permanente Employees, Physicians Return to Gulf Coast, Renew Annual Commitment to Help Rebuild
5/4/10 Kaiser Permanente Launches Sustainability Scorecard for Medical Products
5/4/10 Watch video now!  Pneumonia Vaccine Does Not Protect Against Heart Attacks or Strokes
5/3/10 Kaiser Permanente Funds Resource to Help States, Local Agencies Respond to Increased Need for Food Assistance
4/30/10 Kaiser Permanente Rates High in San Francisco Business Times’ ‘Best Places to Work’ Poll
4/27/10 Kaiser Permanente Approves $7 Million in Community Benefit Grants
4/22/10 Denver Launches First Large-Scale Citywide Bicycle Sharing Program in the United States
4/22/10 Watch video now!  Kaiser Permanente Makes the Link Between Sustainability and Health
4/20/10 Kaiser Permanente Comments on President Barack Obama’s Choice of Donald Berwick, MD, to Lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
4/20/10 Kaiser Permanente Colorado Becomes Founding Funder of Nation’s First Large-Scale Bike Share Program
4/16/10 Michelle Obama Promotes ‘Let’s Move!’ Campaign in San Diego
4/16/10 Kaiser Permanente Wins Clean Air Award for Environmental Leadership Efforts
4/9/10 Kaiser Permanente Ranked No. 1 in Diversity Leadership for Second Consecutive Year
4/2/10 First Lady Michelle Obama Announces Executive Leadership for the Partnership for a Healthier America
4/2/10 Kaiser Permanente Receives High Marks in 2010 J.D. Power and Associates Study
4/1/10 Short-Term Program for Binge Eaters Has Long-Term Benefits
3/30/10 Watch slideshow now!  60 Sustainable Seconds with John Kouletsis
3/30/10 Kaiser Permanente to Energize 15 California Facilities with Solar Power
3/25/10 Kaiser Permanente Statement on Verdict in Neurontin Case
3/24/10 Healthy Life Expectancy Should Be Adopted as Outcome Measure in U.S., Study Says
3/22/10 Kaiser Permanente Comments on House Passage of the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
3/21/10 Risky Drinkers Less Likely to Take Good Care Of Themselves and Seek Medical Care
3/21/10 Statement by Kaiser Permanente About March 21 Associated Press Article
3/18/10 Watch now! Extreme Obesity Affecting More Children at Younger Ages
3/11/10 Kaiser Permanente Ranks No. 4 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity®
3/9/10 Kathy Gerwig Highlights Kaiser Permanente’s Focus on Safer Chemicals, Healthy Environments in Senate Testimony
3/9/10 Starting Treatment Early Doubles Chance of Success for People with Diabetes
3/3/10 Kaiser Permanente Completes Electronic Health Record Implementation
3/2/10 Coffee Drinking and Caffeine Associated With Reduced Risk of Hospitalization for Heart Rhythm Disturbances
3/2/10 Kaiser Permanente Honored for Electronic Health Record Implementation
2/24/10 Kaiser Permanente Experts Advise on Improving Employee Health in Book About Workplace Wellness
2/22/10 Watch now! Pregnancy Weight Gain, Especially in 1st Trimester, May Increase a Woman’s Risk of Gestational Diabetes
2/22/10 John H. Cochran, MD, Talks Transforming Health Care Delivery with Nation’s Governors
2/18/10 Kaiser Permanente Named on Fast Company 2010 World’s Most Innovative Companies List
2/11/10 Kaiser Permanente Approves $170 Million in Community Benefit Grants in 2009
2/9/10 Statement on the Let’s Move Campaign and Partnership for A Healthier America
2/8/10 Social Services Agency and Kaiser Permanente Work to Address Childhood Obesity in Washington, D.C.
2/5/10 Watch now! Kaiser Permanente Employees, Physicians Celebrate MLK Jr. Day with a ‘Day On’
2/3/10 Kaiser Permanente Director of HIV/AIDS Appointed to Presidential Council
1/28/10 Thousands of Denver Children to Receive Immunizations in School
1/20/10 Janice M. Beaverson, MD, Appointed to Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
1/15/10 Kaiser Permanente Donates $500,000 to Agencies on the Ground in Haiti
1/14/10 Kaiser Permanente Raises Obesity Prevention to a New Level in Baldwin Park, Calif.
1/13/10 Mail-Order Pharmacy Use Could Improve Patients’ Medication Adherence
1/12/10 Statement by Kaiser Permanente on Report of Funding of Negative Advertising Campaign
1/7/10 Listen now! Podcast Previews SVP Christine Paige’s Feb. 3 Keynote at 2010 Employer Health and Human Capital Congress
1/6/10 Veterans Affairs and Kaiser Permanente Share Electronic Health Information to Improve Care for Veterans
1/4/10 Refusing Immunizations Increases the Risk of Varicella Illness in Children, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds

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