michael green
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Quality time: Keeping new moms and babies safe

Cheri Lowre, MD, assistant chief of Ob-Gyn at Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center, and Marianna Volodarskiy, MSN, RN, NE-BC, discusses a new Kaiser Permanente Southern California program that reduces C-section rates among pregnant women.
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World-class care for athletes of all kinds

Kaiser Permanente’s integrated care model provides patients – from elite athletes to everyday fitness enthusiasts – with state-of-the-art sports medicine care to get them back in the game.
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Kaiser Permanente physician leaders pen perspective piece on firearm injury prevention

Kaiser Permanente’s Firearm Injury Prevention Task Force co-leads David Grossman, MD, MPH, and Bechara Choucair, MD, co-authored an article recently published in Pediatrics on the role health systems have in preventing firearm injury. The article states that in order for health professionals to be effective in protecting patients from firearm injury, they must know how to identify high-risk individuals and have the tools necessary to intervene effectively.
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Kaiser Permanente researchers weigh in on algorithm that predicts risk of H.I.V. infection

A recent article in The New York Times examines an that doctors can use to assess patient risk for H.I.V and recommend a daily pill to prevent infection – a strategy referred to as PrEP. The idea to use data from electronic health records to determine if patients are at high risk for H.I.V. infection was borne from researchers at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Northern California and Harvard.
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