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Kaiser doctors forgot to read x-ray, patient dies

March 22nd, 2007 at 7:19 am » Comments (5)

Kaiser Doctors Forgot to Read X-Ray, Delayed Treatment For 18 Months Leading to Patient Death
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. — A New Carrollton woman is suing a Kaiser health plan and its doctors saying they first neglected to read her husband’s chest x-rays for eight months and then delayed needed treatment for nearly a year, resulting [...]



New advocacy site for Kaiser Permanente victims

March 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am » Comments (5)

Please join us in welcoming KaiserVictims.org to the growing ranks of web sites dedicated to exposing the egregious, and oftentimes deadly abuses of power and patients at Kaiser Permanente (gazillion dollar Thrive campaign notwithstanding). From the site’s introduction:
This is a collaborative community project that intends to provide a public record of serious medical [...]



Kaiser May Face Fine Over Infant’s Death

March 12th, 2007 at 6:59 pm » Comments (9)

[kaiserthrive.org editor's note: We're sure the family of the baby who was killed will find great comfort in the fact that Kaiser might be fined for ending this child's life forever, before it ever began. We'll believe it when we see it, but any slap on the wrist the State might impose won't [...]



Medication error kills infant at Kaiser Santa Clara

March 9th, 2007 at 6:31 pm » Comments (5)

Medication Mistake? Infant Dies At Kaiser
At Kaiser Hospital In Santa Clara
KGO By Karina Rusk
Mar. 9 - KGO - An infant has died at a Kaiser hospital from what appears to be a medication mistake.
The death of a newborn child at Kaiser Santa Clara happened within the past week.
Kaiser Permanente issued the following statement to ABC7: [...]



Happy Birthday Lehna Jordann Brewer

March 4th, 2007 at 6:20 am » Comments (106)

[April 28, 2008: It was a little over two years ago that Beth Stover's daughter, Lehna Brewer, was stillborn at Kaiser Walnut Creek. We're spotlighting this post again this week to coincide with an article in USA Today about the alarming national trend of missing records in medical error cases, in which Beth's story is [...]



Police probe death in organ donation case

March 2nd, 2007 at 6:53 am » Comments (4)

From the Los Angeles Times:
Authorities investigate allegations that a Kaiser surgeon in San Luis Obispo hastened a possible donor’s demise.
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
February 28, 2007
Police are investigating whether a Kaiser Permanente transplant surgeon attempted to hasten the death last February of a 26-year-old San Luis Obispo man on life support [...]