Kaiser Permanente Leading the Industry In Meeting New California Nurse Staffing Ratios.Business Editors/Health/Medical WritersOAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 2003 Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. is leading the way for California hospitals in implementing the nurse staffing ratios just finalized today by the California Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
DHS Department of Human Services DHS Department of Health Services DHS Demographic and Health Surveys DHS Dirhams (Morocco national currency) .) The 19 Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern Kaiser Permanente hospitals are meeting and in some cases exceeding the state mandate of one nurse per six patients in medical surgical units. That standard will become mandatory for all California hospitals beginning Jan. 1, 2004. As the leader in the industry, Kaiser Permanente is committed to and moving toward achieving a more ambitious goal of one nurse to four patients in medical surgical units. Here are some examples of how Kaiser Permanente is addressing the need to recruit and retain nurses in California: -- Providing educational and career development opportunities through special programs co-sponsored by Kaiser Permanente labor partners, helping to establish the Coalition for Nursing Careers in California (www.choosenursing.com), and awarding scholarships, grants and loans to nursing students. -- Improving the working environment for nurses by increasing salaries and instituting groundbreaking policies which, among other enhancements, do away with mandatory over time for nurses. -- Hiring 1,000 nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals statewide in the last year, while also reducing job vacancies by half and decreasing the number of nurses who leave jobs by one-third. A Kaiser Permanente expert is available to discuss nursing issues. For help in developing a story about this please contact Lea Rubio at 510-987-3900. Kaiser Permanente is a non-profit, prepaid, group practice health maintenance organization (HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, ), founded in 1945. The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region has almost 3.2 million members. It includes 4,451 physicians in The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG TPMG The Permanente Medical Group TPMG Tout pour Ma Gueule (band) TPMG Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group TPMG The Provost Marshal General TPMG Test Platform Management Group ) and approximately 46,000 Kaiser Foundation The mission of the Kaiser Foundation is to assist individuals and communities in preventing and reducing the harm associated with problem substance use and addictive behaviours. External links
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