The impending release of Michael Moore’s scathing indictment of the US Health Care industry, ‘SiCKO’ — which features one Kaiser Permanente scandal after another — has the Kaiser PR goons working overtime. With their usual intent to baffle, befuddle and bamboozle, they would like to convince you to disbelieve what you see and hear with… Read More »
[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… Read More »
[…] It should be noted that although Halvorson admitted that Kaiser screwed up, they have behaved just as despicably in the handling of the investigation and lawsuits as they always do. The fact that the only people who were fired from the program were those who tried to advocate for the patients, reveals the huge discrepancy between what Kaiser says and what they do. […]
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 »
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 »
[April 28, 2008: It was a little over two years ago that Beth Stover’s daughter, Lehna Brewer, was stillborn at Kaiser Walnut Creek. We’re spotlighting this post again this week to coincide with an article in USA Today about the alarming national trend of missing records in medical error cases, in which Beth’s story is… Read More »
Update 7/27/07: This post has been up long enough to make its point, so we’re shortening all of the last names to initials. Update 2/27/07: A little bird tells us there’s a full-fledged witch hunt going on inside KP HealthConnect in response to this post. It’s being reported that Vijaya Rogers has been running around… Read More »
From the Los Angeles Times: Kaiser has aches, pains going digital — Patients’ welfare is at stake in the electronic effort, experts say. By Daniel Costello, Times Staff Writer Kaiser Permanente’s $4-billion effort to computerize the medical records of its 8.6 million members has encountered repeated technical problems, leading to potentially dangerous incidents such… Read More »
From San Francisco Business Times: Kaiser whistleblower settles lawsuit over abrupt firing ? Merlin asked Kaiser for $5 million in damages by Chris Rauber David Merlin, the former administrative director of Kaiser Permanente?s troubled Northern California kidney transplant unit, has settled his wrongful termination lawsuit against Kaiser following a Dec. 18 arbitration hearing. Merlin lost… Read More »
From OrengonLive.com: It should be noted that Kaiser Permanente vigorously defended Dr. Death Jayant Patel in malpractice cases that were filed against him during his tenure at Kaiser. They only took action after several people had been harmed and revictimized by Kaiser lawyers in the rigged Kaiser arbitration process. Several recommendations were also made by… Read More »