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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

Permanente Medicine

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. million members. To learn more about Permanente Medicine, visit permanente.org.

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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

Improving access in adult and family medicine at TPMG by reducing appointment booking times by more than 33%. About the Permanente Medical Groups The Permanente Medical Groups are self-governed, physician-led, prepaid, multispecialty medical groups composed of more than 25,000 physicians.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

Incompetent government The doctor-patient ratio of India is one of the worst in the world; we have 1 doctor for 1456 people against the WHO recommendation of 1:1000 [5]. There is only 1 government doctor for a population of 11,000 people and there is only 1 dental surgeon per 175,000 people [6].

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Price Limits, Affordability Boards, Penalties, Oh My: Minnesota Enacts Sweeping Drug Pricing Reforms

FDA Law Blog

Initial appointments to both the Board and advisory council will occur by January 1, 2024. Prescription Drug Affordability Board The law also establishes a nine-member Prescription Drug Affordability Board and an 18-member stakeholder advisory council to provide advice to the Board on drug cost issues.

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Kerala resident doctors’ strike: a must win movement for the doctors and patients

Tiny Physician

The PG doctors strike has entered its 12th day at the time of publishing this article and it has badly affected the patient care at the Government Medical Colleges (GMCs). KMPGA put forward the following demands in front of the state government: 1. How did the Kerala Government react to these demands?

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying. There must be a good reason why, you know, they miss this appointment because they value this, but they have a lot of other things on their plate. Government is not the 51st state.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). We talk about: . Devika: Thank You. Eric: Thank you.