Northwest Permanente Archives

Leong Koh, MD, speaks on the importance of recruiting and retaining primary care physicians

April 10, 2023

Northwest Permanente’s president and CEO discusses the pivotal role primary care physicians play in an integrated, value-based, multi-specialty health system.

PermanenteDocs Chat on climate change and its impact on human health

April 3, 2023

Northwest Permanente physician Anne C. Toledo, MD, discusses the impact of climate change on health and how physicians can help.

Colin Cave, MD, on treating climate change as a public health crisis

October 18, 2022

Northwest Permanente physician leader Colin Cave, MD, talks about the actions physicians and health systems can take to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on public health, especially vulnerable communities.

Colin Cave, MD, discusses Northwest Permanente’s leadership in becoming a sustainable health care company

April 25, 2022

Physician leader Colin Cave, MD, shares how the medical group is making measurable improvements in its environmental and equity practices.

Mary Giswold, MD, gives in-depth look at advanced-care-at-home programs in webinar

March 21, 2022

The Northwest Permanente chief operating officer shares how hospital-at-home programs work and their potential to change the future of health care in a recent Permanente Live webinar with industry experts.

Ruth Chang, MD, shares advice for promoting physician wellness in AMA Q&A

June 14, 2021

The Northwest Permanente family medicine physician and chief people officer discusses 4 pillars that helped her medical group set an impressive standard for employee well-being.

Pandemic reveals critical need to unite health care with social care

August 23, 2020

By employing a targeted network of community-based partnerships, Permanente physicians can address patients’ social health and begin to achieve health equity.

Imelda Dacones, MD, writes on KevinMD.com that COVID-19 could catalyze a reimagining of health care

June 5, 2020

Despite its massive human toll, the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as a catalyst for reimagining the future of health care delivery, Imelda Dacones, MD, wrote in a recent opinion piece posted on KevinMD.com.

Imelda Dacones, MD, honored by Modern Healthcare among 2020’s Top 25 Minority Leaders

February 19, 2020

Imelda Dacones, MD, president and CEO of Northwest Permanente, has been named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Top 25 Minority Leaders in health care for 2020.

Northwest Permanente’s Matthew H. Richards, MD, discusses Thrive Local

January 14, 2020

Matthew Richards, MD, chief of resource management for Northwest Permanente and regional physician lead for Care Without Delay at Sunnyside Medical Center in Oregon, delved into social determinants of health and Kaiser Permanente’s Thrive Local initiative on a recent edition of “What They’re Watching” on the State of Reform site.