3 hospitals face audit of profits
By Laura Cutland
SILICON VALLEY/SAN JOSE BUSINESS JOURNAL
Updated: 7:00 p.m. ET Dec. 25, 2005
Three Silicon Valley hospital operators are being investigated by state officials who are looking at their high profit margins and nonprofit tax benefits.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Mills-Peninsula Health Services and Kaiser Permanente are among 15 health care providers [...]

Patient Dumping On Skid Row
The city alerts hospitals of possible legal action if they leave people on skid row against their will.
By Cara Mia DiMassa and Richard Winton, Times Staff Writers
December 22, 2005
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office is warning hospitals across Los Angeles today they are potential targets of an investigation into alleged dumping [...]

Permanente Medical Group CEO, Dr. Robert Pearl, invokes father’s
tragic death by medical error to further the cover up at Kaiser
[editor: Unconscionable, Dr. Pearl; simply unconscionable. We cite Kaiser Permanente Northwest's deliberate failure to report malpractice cases to Oregon regulators as required by law for THIRTEEN YEARS, keeping with Kaiser's policy that no wrongdoing has occurred [...]

Revisiting the case of a woman whose cancer was misdiagnosed, medical regulators decide to censure five more physicians.
November 22, 2005
By Debora Vrana, L.A.Times Staff Writer
The Medical Board of California, reversing an earlier position, has decided to publicly censure all six Kaiser Permanente doctors involved in the death of a Woodland Hills woman whose case has [...]

KGO By Debora Villalon
Nov. 11 - KGO - A doctor who once worked at Kaiser Permanente in South San Francisco claims preventable medical mistakes happened too often at that hospital. He says cost-cutting moves put patients’ lives in danger, and when he tried to warn Kaiser, he was fired.
Dr. Cyrus Safai, former Kaiser doctor: “It [...]

Hospitals blamed in more deaths
By David L. Beck
Mercury News
Kaiser Permanente officials have confirmed the deaths of two more patients caused by staff errors at its South Bay hospitals. The deaths bring to at least four the number of fatal incidents at Kaiser facilities during the past 13 months.
Three of the deaths involved either the wrong [...]

By Julie Sevrens Lyons
Mercury News
Kaiser Permanente officials on Tuesday confirmed a third case in which a patient at a South Bay hospital died after a medication error.
On Christmas Eve, a patient whose identity has not been revealed died as a result of a medication error at the Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center.
Hospital officials raised the [...]

Sunday, November 06, 2005, from The Oregonian:
SUSAN GOLDSMITH and DON COLBURN
Dr. Jayant M. Patel was a surgical star. Just three years after he was hired by Kaiser Permanente Northwest in 1989, the HMO gave him the job of training its young surgeons.
Patel gravitated to the toughest cases, confidently rebuilding colons and removing tumors to [...]

By Julie Sevrens Lyons
Fri, Nov. 04, 2005 - Mercury News
Christopher Wibeto wasn’t the only South Bay Kaiser patient to die this year after receiving the wrong medication.
In July, a 12-year-old girl hospitalized at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Santa Clara was mistakenly given a double dose of epinephrine, which speeds up the heart rate, state records show.
Josephine [...]

November 2, 2005, SAN JOSE (AP) — A chemotherapy patient died after his doctor mistakenly administered medication intended for another patient, state investigators found.
Christopher Robin Wibeto, 21, died three days after a cancer-fighting drug called vincristine was improperly injected into his spine in August, the state Department of Health [...]