From the L.A. Times:
Two Kaiser Permanente patients filed suit Monday against the giant HMO following the suspension of its Northern California kidney transplant program.
The suit was filed by Irvine lawyer Lawrence Eisenberg on behalf of patients Lurena Fiore and Debra Adams, but it is seeking class-action status. It claims negligence, fraud and misrepresentation, and conspiracy.
A [...]

From San Francisco Business Times:
Communication and administrative errors that doomed Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco kidney-transplant unit have raised fears among health-care observers about broader management problems at the health-care giant and questions about the role its affiliated medical group played in the fiasco.
Kaiser said May 12 that it would shutter the program in response to [...]

When a San Diego man died from an ear infection, his family took a closer look at the professionals in white coats who cared for him. What they found could be a lifesaver for others.
A grieving widow gave a deposition.
Her husband was a father and grandfather.
He was a victim, she said, of a failed medical [...]

From the L.A. Times:
Some seeking answers on the transition to UC transplant programs express frustration over the poor quality of data.
By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
May 18, 2006
State regulators Wednesday ordered Kaiser Permanente to fix communication foul-ups stemming from the abrupt suspension of its Northern California kidney transplant program after learning that [...]

Anna Werner
Reporting
(CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO — The California Department of Managed Care on Wednesday ordered Kaiser Permanente to improve its’ patient hotline established in the wake of troubles with the HMO’s kidney transplant program in San Francisco, which were first uncovered by CBS 5 Investigates.
Following complaints from patients who complained they were not receiving good [...]

The HMO abruptly announces that it will transfer about 2,000 transplant patients back to UC hospitals. The details are unresolved.
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers
May 13, 2006
Kaiser Permanente announced Friday that it was indefinitely suspending its kidney transplant program in Northern California after revelations that it had endangered hundreds of patients.
“I think, [...]

(CBS 5 / AP) OAKLAND
Kaiser Permanente announced Friday afternoon that it is voluntarily suspending its troubled kidney transplant program.
The move follows a series of reports from CBS 5 Investigates, which first uncovered the problems.
Word of the suspension came one day after Kaiser was sued for allegedly bungling cases that led some patients to grow [...]

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Kaiser’s Troubled Northern California Kidney Transplant Center
Sacramento, CA - May 11, 2006 (PRN): Today a wrongful death lawsuit along with two individual personal injury actions was filed against Kaiser Permanente in Alameda County Superior Court. The lawsuit alleges that due to numerous bureaucratic problems with Kaiser?s troubled Northern California kidney [...]

From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Pleasant Hill resident Bonnie Fadavi, a transplant candidate at Kaiser Permanente’s troubled Northern California kidney unit, has been waiting for a new organ for six years.
Now she has decided that’s too long.
On Wednesday, after Kaiser said it would pay for transplants at other hospitals, [...]

(CBS 5) OAKLAND - State regulators said Wednesday they will oversee Kaiser Permanente’s troubled kidney transplant program in Northern California during an investigation into whether patients’ lives were endangered by botched paperwork and administrative errors.
The state decision follows a series of reports from CBS 5 Investigates, which first uncovered problems with the San Francisco transplant [...]