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KP Santa Rosa receives below average marks for 3 different health outcomes

September 18th, 2009 at 8:32 pm » Comments (15)

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Thank you to Paul Payne of the The Press Democrat, for his report today on the ratings of seven Sonoma County Hospitals, by the non-profit Niagara Health Quality Coalition. The report cards were based on California Department of Health records for 2007, and covered 36 different procedures and conditions, as well as hospital errors and mortality rates.

A one-star rating indicates worse than average outcomes, two stars for average, and three stars were given for better than average. There was no overall grade.

Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa was the only hospital in Sonoma County to receive three one-star below average ratings, for acute stroke mortality, birth trauma for infants, and post-operative hip fractures.

Queue KP’s PRBS response:[...]



More Kaiser negligence will lead to less medical negligence, says non-Kaiser Kaiser doctor (or something like that)

September 4th, 2009 at 12:12 pm » Comments (17)

First, our apologies for the email alert that went out in error earlier today due to technical issues. This is the correct link to the completed post.

We received an interesting comment today, left by a Kaiser Permanente physician on Donna and Jack Berlin’s post about their son Sean’s death at Kaiser Walnut Creek.

Robert identified himself as a “non Kaiser physician,” despite proof from our traffic logs that he was posting from a KP facility. He then went on to [...]