Nary a mention of it’s been made in the California media, but Francis J. Crosson (you can call him Jay) is resigning as head of The Permanente Federation, effective September 30. Jack Cochran, a plastic surgeon who currently heads up the Permanente Medical Group in Colorado, will be “elevated to [the] national role” of [...]
You could be forgiven for wondering why the name Benjamin Chu seems to appear whenever there is some questionable organization breaking the boundary that is supposed to exist between not-for-profit and for-profit healthcare. Ben Chu, who reports to George Halvorson, serves as the Southern California regional president for the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
Tammy Faye Messner passed away yesterday. She was 65.
Growing up in southern West Virginia, I can’t remember not knowing Tammy Faye Bakker. I remember when everyone [...]