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Celebrating Being in a Diversity League of Our Own

George Halvorson | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Diversity in Workplace, Kaiser-Permanente, Diversity at Kaiser Permanente, Kaiser Permanente, Diversity in Business, Kaiser-Permanente-Medical-Foundation, Workplace Diversity, Business News

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.

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Mitt Romney's Health Care Fantasy World

Wendell Potter | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Obamacare, Bain Capital, Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente, Aetna, Health Care, Politics News

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.

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Coloradans Can Now 'Weigh And Win'

AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Weigh and Win Colorado, Video, Weigh and Win Program, Kaiser Permanente, Kaiser Permanente Weigh and Win, Lose Weight Make Money, Denver News

DENVER -- Insurance company Kaiser Permanente Colorado is offering cash to Coloradans to lose weight and keep it off. Companies have been making simi...

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Health Care Company Makes Billions In Profits While Overburdening Its Staff: Report

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Psychotherapy, Video, Therapy, Unemployment, Mental Health, California, Group Therapy, Foreclosure, Health Care Providers, Kaiser Permanente, Hmos, Health Care, Health Care Company, Business News

Kaiser Permanente, one of the country's largest health care organizations, is providing rushed and sloppy mental health treatment in California by an ...

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'Some Cuts Don't Heal': Nurses Protest In Droves Across California

AP | By SUDHIN THANAWALA | Posted 11.23.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Nurses in red union shirts carried signs and chanted slogans outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals into the nig...

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23,000 Nurses To Strike Over Benefits Cuts

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: California Nurse Strike, Video, Benefits, Nurse Strike, Sutter Health, California Hospitals Strike, California Nurses Association Strike, Health Insurance, California Nurses Strike, Benefits Cuts, Kaiser Permanente, Health Benefits, Business News

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Nurses at nearly three dozen hospitals in Northern and Central California are set to go on strike over benefit cu...

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Health Care Costs At Center Of California Labor Disputes

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Video, Labor, Nurses, Health Care Costs, National Union of Healthcare Workers, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care, Unions, Labor Unions, Nuhw, California Nurses Association, Business News

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...

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Turf War Betweens Unions Like 'The Crew Fighting While The Titanic Is Sinking,' Critics Say

Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Nlrb, National Union of Healthcare Workers, Seiu, American Labor Movement, Kaiser Permanente, Seiu Nuhw, Nuhw, Labor Unions, Unions, Business News

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...

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Professional Flexibility for Hourly Workers

Joan Williams | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Workers, Lynn Woolsey, Wages, Childcare, Elder Care, Kaiser Permanente, Hastings Law School, Unions, San Francisco News

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.

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As Kaiser Workers Face Cuts, Execs Have Enjoyed Lavish Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Labor, Health Care Costs, Nonprofits, Kaiser Permanente, Executive Compensation, Nuhw, Health Care, Unions, Labor Unions, Business News

Despite strong profits and robust executive compensation at Kaiser Permanente, workers for the Calfornia-based health care giant say they're facing do...

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Insurers' Bait and Switch

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: California, Unitedhealth, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Anthem Blue Cross, Cigna, Hmos, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, John Garamendi, Wellpoint, Business News

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.

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Nonprofit Insurers: Reaping Profits at the Expense of the Consumer

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Consumers Union, Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Business News

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.

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Promoting AIDS Awareness In Women Over 50

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Civic Ventures, Jacki Gethner HIV, Massage, Jacki Gethner, Jacki Gethner AIDS, HIV Over 50, Kaiser Diversity Award, Reflexology, Kaiser Permanente, Civic Ventures Purpose Prize, AIDS Conferences, Massage Therapy, Women of a Certain Age, Impact News

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...

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Why We Strike

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Union of Healthcare Workers, Strike, Nuhw, Nurses, Uaw, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, Strikes, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Unions, Labor Strikes, Unions, Politics News

If today's labor movement is going to reverse decades of decline, union leaders are going to need to forget the habits of the last 30 years and learn something new from the rank and file: You don't win a fight by not fighting.

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Kaiser 'Woefully Unprepared' At Meeting With Nurses On Strike

LAist | Andy Sternberg in News on March 11, 2011 9:00 AM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strikes, Kaiser Permanente La Medical Center, Unions, Nurses Strike, Nuhw, Kaiser Permanente, National Union of Healthcare Workers, Los Angeles News

Nurses at Kaiser Permanente LA Medical Center left frustrated after meeting with hospital management one week after staging a protest on Sunset Blvd. ...

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Hunger, Obesity and Innovation in the Emergency Food System

Nicole Skibola | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Let's Move, Food Pantries, Mazon, Poverty, Obesity, Food Banks, Kaiser Permanente, Healthy Options Healthy Meals, Hunger, Impact News

Innovative partnerships like Healthy Options, Healthy Meals may just be the missing link that can change the way that the poorest in our country eat.

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wheat Prices, General Electric, Russian Drought, Renewable Energy, Pakistan Floods, Green Business, Tropicana Orange Juice, Kaiser Permanente, China, Zero-Waste, Pepsi, Data, Gm, Bowman Design, Climate Adaptation, Ibm, Cancun Climate Summit, Panasonic, Biomimicry, Unilever, Biofuels, Wal-Mart, Canadian Oil Sands, Trade Barriers, Cotton, Supply Chain, Marks & Spencer, Sony, World Trade Organization, Local Food, Water, Matt Kistler, Rare Earth Elements, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, US Navy, Climate Bill, P&G, Nissan Leaf, Electric Cars, Green News

Here's my attempt to capture the most important stories that affected the greening of business in 2010 and my predictions for the future.

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4 Habits That Revolutionize A Doctor's Visit

Riva Greenberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Patients, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Kaiser Permanente, Empathy, Health Care, Health, Healthy Living News

Medical training tends to emphasize biomedical knowledge. Research shows that a physician's interpersonal skills need to be as strong as their technical expertise.

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Kaiser Permanente Launches Initiative To Standardize Electronic Health Data

hhs.gov | Posted 11.17.2011

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Kaiser Permanente today donated its Convergent Medical Terminology to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation so t...

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Kaiser workers make national headlines in historic NUHW vote

Shirley Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kaiser, Seiu-Uhw, Kaiser Permanente, Nuhw, Sal Rosselli, Seiu, Healthcare Workers, Politics News

On September 13, the biggest private sector union election in more than 70 years began. 43,500 Kaiser healthcare workers across California began to re...

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Majority of Kaiser Workers Pledge to Support SEIU-UHW in Next Week's Election

Erica Boddie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seiu-Uhw, Kaiser Permanente, Nuhw, Politics News

Next week, a majority of 43,000 Kaiser healthcare workers across California will begin voting in a mail ballot election to affirm our union, Service E...

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SEIU Uses Fear, Lies, and Million$ to Sway Kaiser Workers

Randy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Labor, Ufw, Labor Day, Kaiser Permanente, Nuhw, Labor Unions, Seiu, Politics News

SEIU is not promoting its efforts at Kaiser hospitals for good reason. Its campaign is taking a page from the playbook of professional union-busters by avoiding public debate, instead seeking to sway workers through lies and fear.

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NUHW vs. SEIU: Kaiser Workers Prepare to Make History

Shirley Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seiu-Uhw, Labor Day, Nuhw, Healthcare Workers, Kaiser Permanente, Sal Rosselli, Seiu, Kaiser, Politics News

Nearly 30,000 of us signed petitions telling the government that we want NUHW to be our union and we wanted this election to make it official -- the biggest private sector union election in more than 70 years.

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Entire SEIU steward council steps down in order to choose NUHW

Shirley Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seiu-Uhw, Kaiser Permanente, Nuhw, Seiu, Home News

This week, 48 SEIU-UHW stewards at Kaiser Santa Rosa Medical Center sounded the first note of our historic union election campaign at Kaiser Permanent...

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The Case for Managed Health Care - And Why Americans Reject It

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Managed Health Care, Health, Health Care Costs, Health Care HMOs, Healthy Living News

American employers increasingly want to cap escalating health care costs through "managed care," similar to the way costs are controlled in the UK -- who spend half as much annually as us.

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