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Our 2020 Distinguished Physician Award recipients
At Northwest Permanente, collegiality and collaboration are the foundation of our day-to-day interactions. Every year since 1979, NWP physicians have nominated peers who demonstrate professional...
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Happy World Health Day 2021!
April 7 of each year marks the celebration of World Health Day. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of...
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Perm Pod: Healthy Birth Initiative Program
The team behind the Healthy Birth Initiative. “HBI came into my life at a time when I didn’t feel like I had much support. The encouragement, health and parenting education, and the genuine support I...
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Celebrating Earth Day in the work we do every day
We know that Earth Day should be a mindset we live in all year round, and as a B Corp and an environmental leader in the health care industry, we at Northwest Permanente have done our best to do just...
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Perm Pod | Equity, Inclusion and Diversity: Building an inclusive workforce
“It certainly starts at the top. Organizations and leadership teams have to be intentional about how they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.” – Orlando Williams One of our core values...
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Women in medicine: We’ve got you!
At Permanente Medicine, we’re committed to advancing equity, purpose, and joy in the practice of medicine. Recently, we were thrilled to host Permanente Women In Medicine, an inter-regional event...
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Thank you and farewell to Dr. Imelda Dacones
Thank you and farewell to Dr. Imelda Dacones This week, we bid farewell to Imelda Dacones, MD, who has served as Northwest Permanente’s President and CEO for the last six years and has spent the...
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Are you a CRNA looking to join a dynamic, supportive team? Come chat with us!
Are you a CRNA looking to join an awesome and dynamic supportive team? Come chat with us! Who we are: Northwest Permanente is the largest self-governed, multispecialty medical group in Oregon and...
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‘This is the doctor who saved you’
Lisa Denike, MD Lisa Denike, MD, is the Chief of Pediatrics here at Kaiser Permanente Northwest, and in that role she sometimes fills in for other physicians on her team. That’s what happened one day...
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Find NWP doctors on Instagram, talking about climate change and health, and...
Host Alex McDonald, MD, top, chats with NWP EM physician Edward Lew, MD. Our physician leadership doesn’t stop at the doors of our clinics. Recently a couple of Northwest Permanente physicians had...
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Telling her story: One NWP physician’s life during the pandemic
Sasha Mallett, MD, a Northwest Permanente physician whose primary care practice has become 100 percent virtual since the start of the pandemic, has just published an essay in the New England Journal of...
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Are you an Occupational Medicine physician looking to join a collaborative...
Our Occupational Medicine Department has openings! Northwest Permanente is the largest physician-led, multispecialty medical group in Oregon and Southwest Washington, with an 80-year history of...
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Salud en Español team re-engineers the diabetes care visit
Within Kaiser Permanente Northwest, our Latino/a/x patients are at high risk for diabetes mellitus (DM), and in fact are one of our populations having the highest risk. This population also experiences...
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Congratulations to our 2022 Top Docs and Nurses
As they do every year, Portland Monthly has once again published their list of Top Medical Providers, which includes physicians and other clinicians. KPNW clinicians had a strong showing of 215...
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New podcast by NWP physician explores mindset and healing
In her 15-year career at Northwest Permanente, Katie Deming, MD, has helped care for thousands of patients who have cancer. As a physician, she’s noticed that some patients do better with their...
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NWP clinicians honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Shaw, Dr. Sailler, and Dr. Sorweide at the Salem Free Clinic From Salem, Oregon, to Longview, Washington, our Northwest Permanente physicians and clinicians delivered both medical treatment and...
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NWP Innovation in action: Telehealth for prenatal care
A smart phone. A scale. A blood pressure cuff. And a fetal heartrate doppler monitor. With the carefully coordinated and Bluetooth-enabled technology of Northwest Permanente’s newest innovation, that’s...
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Register now! Webinar to focus on acute care at home
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the possibility, and the necessity, of acute-level care at home. With challenges such as hospital capacity and an aging population, the health care industry must...
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NWP announces TFME scholarship winners
At Northwest Permanente, we’re committed to diversity in our workforce and proudly support medical education and the workforce of the future. That’s why we’re excited to partner again with the...
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Our 2021 Company Impact Report: How we showed up
Welcome to our annual impact report, which tells the story of our medical group through a year we won’t soon forget. From the spring’s All4Oregon vaccine center that facilitated a half a million shots...
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