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Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

Most transactions are largely focused on size, scale, and finance. Dr. Ansari also serves as co-CEO of The Permanente Federation, the national leadership and consulting organization for the Permanente Medical Groups, which, with the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, comprise Kaiser Permanente.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. My question is, why this study, and why now?