Another busy week wraps up at the Center for Total Health. We welcomed inspiring visitors and conversations ranging from telehealth to heart health, focused both on our own members and the community at large.
On Wednesday, Kaiser Permanente’s Community Benefit team hosted a convening for community practitioners to share our ALL/PHASE protocol, which is a simple, inexpensive, evidence-based regimen of medications that dramatically reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke among diabetics. The ALL/PHASE program was a winner of the 2010 James A. Vohs Award for Quality and is one of the innovative ways Kaiser Permanente shares information and tools to measure disparities and promote equitable care. The attendees also very literally walked the walk of heart health by joining the CTH team for a 30 minute walk before lunch.
On Tuesday, the Connected HealthCoalition hosted an in-person meeting featuring a presentation from the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Center for Telehealth (@UMMCTelehealth). Michael Adcock, FACHE, the Administrator of the Center for TeleHealth, shared the amazing work going that organization is leading across the state to increase access for all residents to medical care, health education and public health services through telehealth.
We were also honored to host an event focused on the transgender community. The “Transgender Health Meet and Greet,” included physicians, nurses, and health leaders from Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, and The Southeast Permanente Medical Group. Our physicians and clinicians hosted two surgeons, along with representatives from the LGBTQ community from Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia to talk about surgical care for people who are transgender or gender non-conforming. A full post about that event can be found here.
Another thrill for the week – to meet the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group’s summer interns. These future health care leaders had great ideas about total health, and enjoyed our newest exhibit – a virtual reality tour of Baltimore.
As always, these are just a few of the pictures from the week. The full set can be found here.
