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<br />Welcome to C~on~"..nunity t3rl61 fin g,::: <br /> " ~ ~ <br />Welcome to the first edition of Kaiser to providing affordable, high-quality ,WE' <br />Permanente San Mateo's Community health care services to improve the <br />Briefings, a quarterly update for health of our members and the <br />community leaders serving San Mateo communities we serve. We hope While KP conti on <br />County. This is the area served by the Community Briefings will contribute to well ness, we realize that our <br />Redwood City Medical Center, the South our mission, and help you and your communities face many health <br />San Francisco. Medical Center and Daly constituents stay informed of resources challenges. The cost of providing health <br />City Medical Offices. we offer and trends in health care. We insurance continues to Increase, <br /> welcome your feedback and smaller state budgets offer less <br />As the nation's leading, not-for-profit suggestions. assistance, and Ithere is a continual <br />health care organization, KP is dedicated strain on the public health systems. In <br />Kaiser Permanent1e FigtltS C)beslty addition, physical and environmental <br /> conditions promote inactivity, poor <br /> nutrition and obesity. The results are an <br />A big part of KP's mission is to improve '~l[Jtt;~lr .Childhood upswing in chronic diseases such as <br />the health of the communities we serve. diabetes, asthma and other health <br />A recent example of our commitment to Obesity problems. <br />fulfill that mission is KP's collaboration <br />with the University of California Los KP's Community Benefit (CB) <br />Angeles and San Francisco to produce a encompasses four core areas of work: <br />New York Times insert dealing with the care and coverage for vulnerable <br />very real problem of childhood obesity. populations; partnering with the safety <br /> net; community health initiatives; and <br />The statistics are frightening. Children developing and disseminating health <br />born in 2000 or later will have a 30 Most recently, KP has participated in the knowledge. KP focuses on services, <br />percent or greater lifetime risk of partnerships and funding on these <br />developing diabetes (50 percent for development of San Mateo County's areas because this is where we believe <br />some high risk groups). Unless the Blueprint for Prevention of Childhood we can have thE!! greatest impact to <br />current childhood obesity epidemic is Obesity. By collaborating with San Mateo improve the health of our communities. <br />addressed, '!all the advantages County, we are committed to working on <br />accomplished through medical progress a series of objectives that can be For more information about KP's CB <br />over the past century... will be erased" enacted in our health care settings. programs, go to www.kp.orq( <br />according to Dr. Scott Gee, Medical This is a "crucial response to state and communitybenefit, or contact Stephan <br />Director for Prevention and Health Wahl, Community Health and Benefit <br />Education for KP Northern California. It's national trends," Thomas Nachbaur, MD, Manager for the San Mateo Service <br />a problem that needs to be addressed at a pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente area at (650) 301-4551, <br />multiple levels, from individuals to Medical Center in Redwood City, said. stephan .wahl~:QLg. <br />families to schools to medical providers, "This issue affecting so many of our <br />community agencies, and governments. children clearly requires broad action." <br />kp.org <br />- --------- ---- -- --- ----- - - -------- .-....-.--.-.-.--.-.,.--....".-....--.-..'....-......-.. ,-, .. ,...---..,-.......,......--.-....--.. <br /> iiI.1,! <br />Issue 1, Spring 2006 ~~\"f", <br /> th;l~e <br />