Health Research

Sep 20 2007

Kaiser Permanente Opens New Research Center in Colorado

Kaiser Permanente in Colorado has opened a first-of-its-kind research center dedicated to the task of pushing the latest health research into practice as quickly as possible.

The Center for Health Dissemination and Implementation Research in Denver, which opened this month, will serve as a collaborative learning laboratory and a resource to stimulate, support and evaluate translational research. The center will share its work with Kaiser Permanente units nationwide, and with selected non-Kaiser Permanente institutions as well.

The Center is part of the Denver-based Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Research, which itself is one of seven health research institutions that Kaiser Permanente operates throughout the United States. Groundbreaking research on a variety of topics — ranging from diabetes to the relationship of light alcohol use and heart disease — has reached the forefront of the medical world through Kaiser Permanente’s researchers.

The Center for Health Dissemination and Implementation Research has received project grants from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.

For more information, read this news release. For more about Kaiser Permanente’s research institutions, view this section of kp.org.