The gist: Yogi Berra perhaps knows something about where Kaiser Permanente is now heading under George Halvorson: “We’re lost. But we are making good time.” Mr. Halvorson has taken to devoting his time to writing weekly email messages to remind Kaiser Permanente employees that he is still in charge, and his book tour has [...]
The gist: The bad news George Halvorson seemed to be preparing for is in today’s Los Angeles Times: the parents of seven-week-old Andrew Balaka-Long are trying desperately to have their baby transferred to a non-Kaiser Permanente hospital. Baby Andrew is a triplet, but his two other siblings passed away. His parents obtained a [...]
The gist: Diminishing the seriousness of the work that is done at Kaiser Permanente may seem fine to George Halvorson, but it’s another example of his misleadership of an organization that once was led by a man, Dr. Sidney Garfield, who would have been horrified at the thought of a non-physician nonchalantly excusing medical errors. [...]