Johns Hopkins Medicine and Kaiser Permanente Announce Enhanced Strategic Collaboration

To the Johns Hopkins Medicine community

Dear Colleagues,

Collaboration is one of the key pillars of the Johns Hopkins Promise of Medicine. We are pleased to announce that Johns Hopkins Medicine and Kaiser Permanente have entered into an agreement to strengthen the successful collaboration between our two organizations. We will work together on areas that will significantly advance the quality, safety, access and affordability of health care and enhance the patient experience in the mid-Atlantic region and nationally.

Hospitals and health systems throughout the country face increasing challenges in meeting growing health care needs. The strategic collaboration between Johns Hopkins Medicine and Kaiser Permanente—two forward-leading, innovative and nationally recognized organizations—will focus on  sharing best practices, advancing population health programs, collaborating on education and research endeavors, and exploring how the organizations can work together to create better health care models for consumers and their communities.

This exciting agreement builds on the successful relationship Johns Hopkins Medicine and Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States have had for more than 15 years, including a collaboration with Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where physicians from both care teams already are working side by side to ensure the best patient outcomes.

Working more closely with Kaiser Permanente will escalate medical solutions to provide patients with increased value-based care. Key elements of our collaboration will initially focus on:

• Sharing best practices and leveraging electronic medical records to accommodate the growing need among providers and patients to access clinical information quickly and efficiently.
  Strengthening the relationship between Kaiser Permanente and Suburban Hospital by combining our collective expertise to create an advanced model of care.
• Bringing care into the home to meet the evolving needs of patients by exploring and leveraging technology to deliver personalized medicine.
• Building on the existing collaboration between Kaiser Permanente and Johns Hopkins' Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality to advance the patient experience and improve treatment outcomes while reducing costs.
• Pursuing opportunities to develop educational programs and research-based best practices that benefit the overall health of the people in the communities we serve.

We look forward to working with Kaiser Permanente to combine our respective areas of expertise and further deliver on the Promise of Medicine.

Please join us in celebrating and supporting this exciting collaboration.

Sincerely,
 
Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
 
Ronald R. Peterson
President
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine
 
Brian Gragnolati
Senior Vice President, Community Division
The Johns Hopkins Health System