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Back to Health Dashboard- Health Article description.Discusses pacemakers used to treat bradycardia. Discusses various types of pacemakers. Covers how they work and how well they work, risks, and possible side effects.
- Meet the winners of our 2023 David Lawrence Community Service Award. Their generous efforts embody Kaiser Permanente’s values locally and globally.
- Health Article description.Scleral buckling surgery is a common way to treat retinal detachment. It is a method of closing breaks and flattening the retina. A scleral buckle is a piece of silicone sponge, rubber, or semi-hard plastic that your eye doctor ( ophthalmologist) places on the outside of the eye (the sclera, or the white of the eye)...
- Our 2026 National Nursing Excellence Awards recognize nurses who keep learning, adopt new practices, and improve care for patients.
- Health Article description.Looks at a surgery for glaucoma typically used after a trabeculectomy has failed. Covers how it is done and what to expect after surgery. Also covers risks and how well it works.
- Health Article description.Resection is another name for any surgery that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection for colorectal cancer, also called partial colectomy, removes the tumor. To make sure that only healthy tissue is left, the doctor removes a small amount of healthy colon or rectum tissue on both sides of the tumor. The...
- “We managed to ultimately break through that barrier.” — Kaiser Permanente LGBT employee and activist Ellen Leonard
- Health Article description.Explains what a recall of a medical device is. Mentions that failure or recall of cardiac devices is rare. Covers the FDA classes of recall. Explains what to do if your cardiac device is recalled.
- Early nation-wide health care quality assessments and evaluations became inefficient, leading Dr. Sam Sapin to pioneer a new program.
- Health Article description.Recombinant zoster (shingles) vaccine can prevent shingles. Shingles (also called herpes zoster, or just zoster) is a painful skin rash, usually with blisters. In addition to the rash, shingles can cause fever, headache, chills, or upset stomach. Rarely, shingles can lead to complications...
- Women who worked in the Kaiser shipyards helped lay the groundwork for a new era of greater employment opportunities and child care options.
- Health Article description.Covers surgery (osteotomy) to remove a wedge of bone near a damaged joint. Looks at why it is done and what to expect after surgery. Covers physical therapy. Includes info on how well it works and the risks of surgery.
- Our award-winning nurses put patients first and contribute new knowledge and innovations to the profession of nursing.
- Health Article description.Discusses open surgery and endoscopic surgery to help relieve foot and heel pain from plantar fasciitis. Describes how it is done and what to expect after surgery. Covers how well it works and the risks.
- Early women workers at the Kaiser shipyards diversified home front World War II defense industries and the American workforce.
- Health Article description.Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) uses a special type of pacemaker called a biventricular pacemaker (say "by-ven-TRICK-yuh-ler") to treat heart failure. This pacemaker sends electrical pulses to make the ventricles pump at the same time. A biventricular pacemaker is implanted in the chest, and it connects to three...
- Kaiser Permanente doctors top 5280 Magazine’s count in 23 medical specialties and the overall list.
- Health Article description.Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is a type of heart failure. It happens when the heart's lower left chamber (left ventricle) doesn't pump blood out to the body as well as it should. It's sometimes called systolic heart failure. This is because your left ventricle doesn't squeeze forcefully enough...
- Colorado Springs Magazine listed 5 Kaiser Permanente doctors as Top Doctors. Each was in the top 10% of vote-getters for their specialty.
- Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center celebrates earning its second Magnet designation.
- Health Article description.Rabies vaccine can prevent rabies. Rabies is mainly a disease of animals. Humans get rabies when they are bitten or scratched by infected animals. Human rabies is rare in the United States. Wild animals like bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes are the most common source of human rabies infection in the United…
- Dr. Leonard Rubin and Sam Sapin pioneered and piloted new quality assessment methods, creating the foundation for assessing today's quality of care.
- The history of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and the resilience of early physicians to overcome challenges and establish a high-quality model of care.
- Our principles of diversity and our inclusive care began during World War II when our racially integrated hospitals delivered care to all Kaiser shipyard workers.
- These are answers to common questions about parental access for Kaiser Permanente member accounts.These are answers to common questions about parental access for Kaiser Permanente member accounts.
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