Our country's low rate of physical activity compared to other nations is not just laziness. To get Americans back on their feet, we need to make movement once again a natural part of daily life.
When the votes were tallied at the NLRB regional office in Oakland last Thursday, NUHW support in Kaiser's largest bargaining unit had increased by 15 percent -- but SEIU, the vocal opponent of striking and fan of partnership, won again with 18,844 votes versus NUHW's 13,101.
Kaiser Permanente's evaluation has shown promising results since it launched its Thriving Schools effort, aimed at helping students, staff and teachers focus on making healthy choices so that schools can become a focal point and beacon of health throughout entire communities.
If SEIU is ousted when ballots are counted in early May, this once fast-growing union will suffer a greater membership loss in a single election than it did all last year when it shrunk by 43,000 members.
The ACA isn't a perfect plan but if fully enacted offers a chance to make changes to the American health care system. Understanding the role technology plays will be an ongoing discussion with advances in technology and its creative application potentially improving care and reducing costs.
Health insurance companies are looking to put off complying with health care reform rules that guarantee basic benefits and consumer protections -- an...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A report released earlier this week by the California Department of Managed Health Care slammed Kaiser Permanente, one of the state's...
All war metaphors must go. You cannot fight for peace. Peace is the path. You cannot win a war on cancer or violence against women or anything else you don't want. Fighting something always makes it bigger.
Two major health care worker unions entered into a formal affiliation in California on Thursday, arguing that they could better fight concessions soug...
Food banks have worked to change their stocks from any old leftovers to food that’s more nutritious and fresher, and a new collaboration hopes to ce...
You don't need a study to tell you that good friends and a close family can help boost the morale of a women facing breast cancer. But arguing convinc...
We need all business sectors to man the barricades and take positions. Setting a 30 percent absolute GHG reduction goal by 2020 is in line with what scientists tell us we need to do, and it's unusually aggressive.
At Kaiser Permanente, we have a wonderful level of diversity among our caregivers and staff, and among our patients and members. Our diversity gives us the sensitivity and the connectivity that we need to serve our members respectfully and well.
Obamacare haters try to make us believe that the law will reduce "choice and competition" -- that insurers are competing vigorously to sign up Americans. But the world of health insurance doesn't operate that way -- and it never will without intervention.
DENVER -- Insurance company Kaiser Permanente Colorado is offering cash to Coloradans to lose weight and keep it off. Companies have been making simi...
Kaiser Permanente, one of the country's largest health care organizations, is providing rushed and sloppy mental health treatment in California by an ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Nurses in red union shirts carried signs and chanted slogans outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals into the nig...
Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Nurses at nearly three dozen hospitals in Northern and Central California are set to go on strike over benefit cu...
More than 20,000 nurses and hospital workers will likely go on strike throughout California later this week, in one of the largest such work stoppages...
While millions of Americans work jobs with stagnating wages, poor job security and no union representation, two labor unions are waging a turf war ove...
Does that chic new restaurant create situations that leave minor children home alone? Often hourly workers can't arrange suitable care at such short notice, so they get fired a lot.
Despite strong profits and robust executive compensation at Kaiser Permanente, workers for the Calfornia-based health care giant say they're facing do...
The health insurance industry's long-term strategy is to move all Americans into high-deductible plans, and they're well on their way to achieving that goal. Once there, you can bet the rates will be hiked up.
Nowhere are health insurers working harder to thwart reforms that could save consumers billions of dollars than in California, where a proposed bill that give state regulators the authority to reject rate increases that were excessive or discriminatory.
In the mid 1980s one of Jacki Gethner's oldest girlfriends was badly injured in a car accident, and grew addicted to her IV pain medication. Jacki tal...
