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

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Alex: Yeah, we talk a lot about de-skilling in geriatrics and palliative care, because so much of what we do is a consultant role. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. And then, this little mini consultant.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so one of the patients that we mentioned in that article is a gentleman who lived four hours away who was unable to come to chemotherapy appointments because his pain was so debilitating once we gave him not a huge amount of opioids, he was actually able to come get chemotherapy and then live for much longer. Go ahead Eric.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73