From the comments:
We are lawyers who regularly take on Kaiser and hold them accountable. We are investigating Kaiser’s failure to properly care for SPECIAL NEEDS Patients, those requiring PALLIATIVE CARE, and INFANT Deaths at Kaiser facilities. If you or someone close to you is a kaiser special needs patient or someone needing palliative care please contact us. Also, if you or anyone you know has sustained the death of an infant at Kaiser contact me.
We usually represent doctors, nurses and administrators who stand up to Kaiser for what is right and best for patients.
Charles T. Mathews
Contact information can be found on Mr. Mathews’ website: mathewslawgroup.com
Mr. Mathews,
Where have you been all of our lives?
You’ve come to the right place if you are looking for someone to be held accountable.
A friend was being abused by her niece. Adult protective services stepped in and placed her in a nursing home. A Kaiser social worker allowed the niece to remove her (against her will). She died two days later (in the hands of her niece). Her name was Janet Fried.
One of Kaiser’s attack dogs from the Seyfarth Shaw law firm was creeping around this post this morning. They accessed with no referring link, which leads us to believe that Kaiser is ignoring its online critics again.
Somebody must be nervous.
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RIGHTO….
yep, sure looks like they are “ignoring” their online critics.
I love these stat reports. So, so very telling, aren’t they?
Admin, not sure if you can post this, this is the Kaiser I myself experienced. I can back up the claims (below) with personal experience of Kaiser.
In 2001, the Department of Health and Human Services cited Kaiser-Bellflower for failing to provide appropriate medical screening examinations, failing to provide stabilizing treatment for emergency medical conditions and failing to provide care in the emergency room without regard to the patients’ ability to pay. Kaiser-Bellflower’s policy was to keep patients waiting in the emergency room until they left without treatment. Between 1999 and 2006, more than 5,000 patients were sent home without receiving medical screening exams. Kaiser intentionally understaffed and understocked the hospital to increase profits and to decrease the number of patients who would avail themselves of the emergency room. Kaiser also provided inadequate and unsanitary care for its patients. Treatment of several patients suffering from chest pains and possible myocardial infarctions was delayed because the emergency room lacked appropriate medications such as nitroglycerin and resuscitation bags. Other patients were placed in rooms soiled with blood and excrement. In one instance, a patient was placed in a room with an aborted fetus and blood clots in the sink. Kaiser permitted physicians to refer patients, including children, to a doctor who was mentally ill and a known child molester. It also scheduled doctors, including Dr. Woods, to work consecutive evening or overnight shifts in violation of Medical Group rules, a practice which threatened patient care.
Dr. Woods complained of these incidents and conditions. In retaliation, defendants placed him on administrative leave and reduced his pay in November and December of 2003. In November 2004, he was reinstated but transferred to Fontana as further retaliation for his complaints. In April 2006, Dr. Woods was suspended and his salary was further reduced in continuing retaliation for his complaints. On July 19, 2006, the day before the hearing on the post-trial motions, Dr. Woods was terminated.
More… What is George Halvorson doing parading himself around promoting improvement in quality health care when they do things like this?
On June 2, 2006, the jury returned a special verdict which included the following findings: Dr. Woods, at the Bellflower Medical Center, protested a decision, policy or practice that he reasonably believed impaired his ability to provide medically appropriate health care to his patients; in 2003, the Medical Group placed Dr. Woods on administrative leave and reduced his pay; Dr. Woods’s patient advocacy was a motivating factor for the Medical Group’s placement of Dr. Woods on administrative leave and reduction of pay in 2003; and the Medical Group’s retaliatory conduct was a substantial factor in causing harm to Dr. Woods.
That was one of Mr. Mathews’ earlier cases. We posted about it in June of 2006:
Kaiser Permanente found liable in retaliation case
Thanks for posting that link. I want to hold onto that.
TRY FIGHTING KP IN HAWAII!
HOLLYANN E. BEST WAS A RADIOGRAPHER AT KP FROM ’93-’09. SHE ENDURED DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT, INTIMIDATION, COERCION, PERSECUTION, RETALIATION, VIOLATION OF ADA AND CIVIL RIGHTS, SEXUAL ASSAULT, FALSIFICATION OF MEDICAL RECORDS, SLANDER, LIBEL, DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER, DENIAL OF TREATMENT, FRAMED FOR VIOLATION OF HIPPA, AND WRONGFULLY TERMINATED.
SOP AT KP!!!
KP AND THE ILWU COLLUDED AND CONSPIRED TO DESTROY HER LIFE!
EVERYTHING IS DOCUMENTED.
SHE HAS BEEN DENIED WORK COMP AND UNEMPLOYMENT.
SHE IS NOW LIVING ON SSDI, HEAVILY IN DEBT, AND BECOMING SUICIDAL.
SHE IS ALL ALONE.
NO-ONE WILL HELP HER.
SHE HAS TRIALS PENDING (VERY SOON!) BEFORE LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND HAS FILED SUIT IN FEDERAL COURT.
ALONE!
KAISER PERMANENTE “CARES” FOR ITS MEMBERS LIKE FAMILY……..
BUT ONLY IF YOU ARE PROUD THAT DADDY SAYS YOU ARE THE BEST KISSER IN THE FAMILY!!!
WILL MR. MATTHEWS STAND UP FOR HER?
IS THERE ANYONE COMPETENT WHO IS WILLING TO INTERVENE ON HER BEHALF??
Fraud by Kaiser Hawaii is the reason this website exists. See the sidebar for a photo of the jackass who told me that KP Hawaii can get away with anything because people here are too stupid to stop them. That’s an old picture, though, I need to find a newer one.
We’re not directly affiliated with Mr. Mathews law firm in any way, but it wouldn’t hurt to give him a call. If he can’t help her himself he might know someone who can.
Don’t post too much of her information online, because Kaiser’s attorneys monitor this site, trolling for info to re-victimize KP’s victims with.
There is never any lawyers in Washington or Oregon willing to go against Kaiser. I’ve had extra body parts removed, surgeries gone bad, been lied to. Refused results that even the medical records department didn’t have. They said they were done by an “outside facility” and a lady told me it was still inside Kaiser. I was give 23 treatments of electroshock because they said I was allergic to ssri’s and I was only mildly depressed. I lost years of my life and I now have migraines with aura and forget how to spell. I was almost overdosed and when I complained about anything they gave me narcotics over the phone that made me sicker and told me to go to a councilor. That was after I had a GERD surgery and got Leaky Gut Syndrome. They refused to see me. The surgeon wouldn’t even speak to me on the phone, but he’s message was it wasn’t anything I’ve done. This is not even a small part of the hell I’ve been through.
Survived Kaiser. Was in a drug induced “Hydrocephalus” (official diagnosis) after I woke up the following spring yes a year later.. having not succumbed to cancer while in Kaiser Hospice. I signed away my rights to further cancer treatment and in exchange they would send people out to my home (Hospice) but with the fight of their lives my family went against the hospice docs and eventually most of the meds were removed..Meds in the amounts meant for someone in the end of life. Only I wasn’t really dying at all it was misdiagnosed. I did have Osteoporosis and a non cancerous hemangioma…didn’t have bone metastasis at all..all later correctly diagnosed at UCLA..but the damage is done. I am alive which is more than i can say about my granddaughter She would have been 12 had she not died at the hands of the young doctors and yes the very same Kaiser. They incorrectly used a suction device..tried to cover up a death..tried to call it S.I.D.S. but you don’t go on life support for a week with SIDS..why do you think they call it “Sudden” infant death syndrome..and how did they get away with it with the coroner..No Kaiser you have devastated our family..I am in a wheel chair ..I am alive but will never ever be the same..because when you lay in bed for a year your bones become so thin that they brake..and that is the additional damage to me in addition to what a years worth of Hospice treatment was done to a person who wasn’t even dieing in the first place. Why didn’t you do a bone biopsy?? Why did you make such huge blunders over and over and subject me to unnecessary chemo and radiation. Even after I woke up a year later!! you gave me a weeks worth of radiation..For an oseoporatic fracture..OH MY GOD !! It’s criminal..my poor granddaughter..R.I.P. My daughter and I both had the unfortunate experience of having Kaiser through our individual employers. Same Kaiser.
Just remember whoever is erasing this post. We are a family with proof to back up our experience. Yes videos too.. added to Disk can’t be stolen or erased. More than one person has them..And Medical Records Oh yes many. So erase all you want.Just remember in our family, one did Not THRIVE and one did not Survive.
Once again..here is my Post.
Survived Kaiser. Was in a drug induced “Hydrocephalus” (official diagnosis) after I woke up the following spring yes a year later.. having not succumbed to cancer while in Kaiser Hospice. I signed away my rights to further cancer treatment and in exchange they would send people out to my home (Hospice) but with the fight of their lives my family went against the hospice docs and eventually most of the meds were removed..Meds in the amounts meant for someone in the end of life. Only I wasn’t really dying at all it was misdiagnosed. I did have Osteoporosis and a non cancerous hemangioma…didn’t have bone metastasis at all..all later correctly diagnosed at UCLA..but the damage is done. I am alive which is more than i can say about my granddaughter She would have been 12 had she not died at the hands of the young doctors and yes the very same Kaiser. They incorrectly used a suction device..tried to cover up a death..tried to call it S.I.D.S. but you don’t go on life support for a week with SIDS..why do you think they call it “Sudden” infant death syndrome..and how did they get away with it with the coroner..No Kaiser you have devastated our family..I am in a wheel chair ..I am alive but will never ever be the same..because when you lay in bed for a year your bones become so thin that they brake..and that is the additional damage to me in addition to what a years worth of Hospice treatment was done to a person who wasn’t even dieing in the first place. Why didn’t you do a bone biopsy?? Why did you make such huge blunders over and over and subject me to unnecessary chemo and radiation. Even after I woke up a year later!! you gave me a weeks worth of radiation..For an oseoporatic fracture..OH MY GOD !! It’s criminal..my poor granddaughter..R.I.P. My daughter and I both had the unfortunate experience of having Kaiser through our individual employers. Same Kaiser.
Sharon Rothstein on August 21st, 2011 18:33
Admin,
Is there any news with this and Charles Mathews?
same issue no care for back pain, they just leave and don’t call