Kaiser accepts patient-dumping settlement The pact could resolve suits filed against the HMO after a woman was left wondering on skid row. By Richard Winton and Cara Mia DiMassa Los Angeles Times Staff Writers LOS ANGELES — Kaiser Permanente has agreed to a first-of-its-kind settlement aimed at ending the practice of patient dumping by requiring… Read More »
From the Orange County Register: Kaiser Permanente in Anaheim defies Medical Board The state is investigating possible malpractice by a physician in Anaheim, but the hospital won’t release patient names without a court order. By BLYTHE BERNHARD The state attorney general wants to force Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Anaheim to release the names of… Read More »
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.… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
Received 4/23/07 via the FixKP.org mailing list: Page one of today’s Wall Street Journal has an article on the email I sent on November 3, along with a look at the events leading up to and following it. You can read the article through this link: The Wall Street Journal, Critical Case: How an Email… Read More »
[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… Read More »
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,… Read More »
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 errors.… Read More »
[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 even begin… Read More »