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Kaiser Permanente still denying kidney patients were harmed

December 14th, 2006 at 6:55 am » Comments (1)

From the Los Angeles Times:
Discipline meted out to Kaiser — Transplant oversight group drops ‘good standing’ rating seven months after the HMO closes kidney program in San Francisco.
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
December 14, 2006
TUCSON ? Seven months after Kaiser Permanente announced that it was closing its problem-plagued kidney transplant program in [...]



Kaiser San Francisco criticized over kidney transplants

December 13th, 2006 at 6:28 pm » Comments (2)

From CBS5.com:
(AP) SAN FRANCISCO — A national organ transplant association criticized Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center Wednesday for mismanaging its kidney transplant program.
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network declared the medical center to be a “member not in good standing” because it “effectively denied patient access to kidney transplantation and threatened safety for patients [...]