[kaiserthrive.org editor's note: Hallelujah, regulators have finally seen the light! Too bad Kaiser will respond with another useless 'plan of correction', with no real intentions of actually following through with it.]
From San Francisco Business Times:
DMHC probe of Kaiser delayed, fines expected
by Chris Rauber
An investigation of Kaiser Permanente by the state Department of Managed Health [...]

Enjoy this parody of one of Kaiser’s new animated Flash Thrive ads that has been appearing in Yahoo mailboxes everywhere:

Refresh the page to replay the animation.
If you can’t play the Flash animation, try the YouTube version:

An animated gif version can be found here: larger file — smaller file
Please feel free to copy, share, and email [...]

We have posted the introduction to our new ongoing series on eKaiserInsuranceSucks.com, How to recognize Kaiser PRBS?. It begins:
The purpose of this web site is to chronicle and explore Kaiser Permanente’s latest internet advertising and social media PR campaign for eKaiser Insurance (see press release). We will also detail some of the problems at Kaiser, [...]

In its latest press release, Kaiser Permanente reveals plans to command and conquer the internet by squandering piles of member money on every tawdry PR trick in the book. Is anyone else as sick of being managed and manipulated by corporate strategists as we are?
We’re calling our new campaign Murder by PRBS?, and we’re [...]

From the Contra Costa Times:
Kaiser net income, revenue surge
Kaiser Permanente on Friday reported sharp increases in both net income and revenue for the quarter.
The nation’s largest health maintenance organization saw its net income rise 56 percent to $698 million, from $448 million last year. Operating revenues increased 9 percent to $9.4 billion.
Kaiser said it needs [...]

Updated 5/5/07 with more log data in the comments.
Gee, it’s a good thing Kaiser says it isn’t paying attention, because otherwise we might wonder why Buzz Logic, Edelman PR, Campbell-Ewald and Digital Impact (all highly overpaid Kaiser “image consultants”) have been spending so much time around here (or trying to anyway). One day we [...]

Three Santa Clara County hospitals caught dumping untreated medical waste
By Barbara Feder Ostrov
San Jose Mercury News
Santa Clara County officials are investigating how three local hospitals sent untreated medical waste, including partly used bags of human blood, to a San Jose landfill in violation of state law.
Notices of violation were sent today to Kaiser [...]

[Promoted from the comments:]
I can truly say that I sympathize with this family. When I read this story, I felt like I was reliving a nightmare.
My mother had Kaiser as her health plan from the 1970?s till she died in 1991. Her story is very similar. In Ohio, Kaiser no longer has it?s own ?hospital [...]

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 [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
State lists worst hospitals for care of pneumonia — Five Kaiser facilities have among the highest mortality rates.
By Francisco Vara-Orta, Times Staff Writer
Five Kaiser Permanente hospitals were among the 28 institutions with the highest death rates in California for patients with pneumonia, according to a state report to be released today.
The [...]