Permanente Medical Groups
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Permanente Medical Groups are self-governed, physician-led, multispecialty medical groups that contract exclusively with Kaiser Permanente health plans to provide integrated primary and specialty care. The groups are situated within eight separate geographic service areas within the United States: Georgia, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland/Virginia/Washington, D.C., Northern California, Southern California, Oregon and Southern Washington, and Washington state.
Overview[edit]
As of 2022, the Permanente Medical Groups collectively included more than 23,000 physicians that provided or supported care within 734 medical offices, 39 hospitals, and via telehealth.[1][2][3][4]
The Permanente Medical Groups are:
- Colorado Permanente Medical Group, P.C. (Colorado)
- Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (Hawaii)
- Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, P.C. (Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia)
- Northwest Permanente, P.C. (Oregon and southern Washington)
- Southern California Permanente Medical Group (Southern California)
- The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (Northern California)
- The Southeast Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (Atlanta Metropolitan Area)
- Washington Permanente Medical Group, P.C. (Washington state)
The two medical groups in California, Southern California Permanente Medical Group and The Permanente Medical Group (Northern California), are among the largest medical groups in the United States.[5]
History[edit]
In 1933, Dr. Sidney Garfield began providing prepaid medical services to workers building the Colorado River Aqueduct in the Mojave Desert at the cost of a nickel per worker a day.[6] In the early 1940s, Dr. Garfield partnered with industrialist Henry J. Kaiser to open the Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital and Oakland Fabiola Hospital for workers at the Kaiser Shipyards. The hospital was sponsored by Henry Kaiser’s Permanente Foundation with Dr. Garfield as its medical director. Dr. Garfield’s medical group provided health care to the members of the nonprofit trust now known as Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Garfield and Associates evolved into The Permanente Medical Group in the late 1940s. Garfield’s and Henry Kaiser’s idea for a prepaid, integrated care model,[7] along with the efforts of other physician founders of what became Kaiser Permanente, including Ray Kay, MD, and Ernest Saward, MD, led to the creation of other Permanente Medical Groups in succeeding years, first in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest and later in other geographies.
Notable Permanente Medical Group physicians and accomplishments[edit]
Morris Collen, MD, a founding partner of The Permanente Medical Group, pioneered the use of computers to improve medical care. His work marked a major milestone for medical data and led to the creation of the field of health informatics.[8][9]
Ellamae Simmons, MD, was the first Black female physician in the United States to specialize in immunology. She was also the first Black female physician hired by Kaiser Permanente.[10]
Vincent Felitti, MD, published the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1998. The study found that traumatic events experienced in childhood are linked to chronic health issues, mental illness, and substance use problems later in life.[11]
In 2010, the Southern California Permanente Medical Group introduced a comprehensive initiative to reduce opioid drug prescribing. The initiative, developed and led by Michael H. Kanter, MD, helped Kaiser Permanente reduce opioid prescribing across all outcomes it tracked.[12][13]
The Permanente Federation[edit]
The Permanente Federation LLC represents the collective interests of the Permanente Medical Groups. Dr. Richard S. Isaacs and Dr. Ramin Davidoff serve as co-CEOs of The Permanente Federation.[14]
References[edit]
- ↑ Muoio, Dave (2021-08-02). "Kaiser Permanente requiring all 240K employees, physicians to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19". Fierce Healthcare. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
- ↑ "Kaiser Permanente medical offices and facilities number 2007-2021". Statista. 2022-06-20. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ Berg, Sara (2020-03-24). "How Permanente uses telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic". American Medical Association. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ Reed, Mary; Huang, Jie; Graetz, Ilana; Muelly, Emilie; Millman, Andrea; Lee, Catherine (2021-11-16). "Treatment and Follow-up Care Associated With Patient-Scheduled Primary Care Telemedicine and In-Person Visits in a Large Integrated Health System". JAMA Network Open. 4 (11): e2132793. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.32793. ISSN 2574-3805. PMID 34783828 Check
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- ↑ Smillie MD, John C. (2000). Can Physicians Manage the Quality and Costs of Health Care? The Story of The Permanente Medical Group. McGraw-Hill Companies. p. 5. Search this book on
- ↑ Bernstein, Paul (2008). Courage to Heal. Sunbelt Publications. Search this book on
- ↑ Yardley, William (2014-10-04). "Morris Collen, Pioneer in Computerized Medicine, Dies at 100". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ Colliver, Victoria (2014-09-30). "Dr. Morris Collen dies, was pioneer in medical computing". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
- ↑ "Historical marker honors life and legacy of Dr. Ellamae Simmons". Knox Pages. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ↑ Felitti, Vincent; Anda, Robert; Nordenberg, Dale; Williamson, David; Spitz, Alison; Edwards, Valerie; Koss, Mary; Marks, James (1998-05-01). "Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 14 (4): P245–258. doi:10.1016/S0749-3797(98)00017-8. ISSN 0749-3797. PMID 9635069. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Finnegan, Joanne (2018-03-01). "These 4 strategies helped Southern California Permanente Medical Group reduce opioid prescriptions by 30%". Fierce Healthcare. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ Losby, Jan; Hyatt, Joel; Kanter, Michael; Baldwin, Grant; Matsuoka, Denis (2017-12-21). "Safer and more appropriate opioid prescribing: a large healthcare system's comprehensive approach". Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 23 (6): 1173–1179. doi:10.1111/jep.12756. ISSN 1356-1294. PMID 28707421. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Permanente Federation LLC". Permanente Medicine. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
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