Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

May 22, 2025 — The Permanente Federation has appointed Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA , to the National Permanente Leadership Team as executive vice president and chief quality officer and co-chair of the Kaiser Permanente National Quality Committee. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008. million members. million Kaiser Permanente members.

Appointment 52

Appointment Board-Certified Patient-Centered Integrated Care 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). See Sachs write up about setting up this clinic in JPSM. What is harm reduction and how can we implement it in practice? Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? Who will prescribe the buprenorphine then? Oh, my goodness.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. Before we do, I think, Joe, you have a song request for Alex. Joe: I do. And the other reason is that you remind me of David Bowie. Eric: Wait, which version? The Labyrinth version or? Eric: David Bowie was in Labyrinth.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73