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… Read More »
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… Read More »
(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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
(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… Read More »
From the L.A. Times: U.S. Begins Kaiser Probe — Officials review kidney transplant program in which errors left many patients in limbo. By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers May 9, 2006 Federal regulators launched a surprise inspection Monday of Kaiser Permanente’s fledgling kidney transplant program in San Francisco after The Times documented… Read More »
From the L.A. Times: With reports of disarray added to their existing frustration, some don’t want the HMO performing their surgeries. By Tracy Weber And Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers May 6, 2006 “I don’t know what’s going on here,” Bernard Burks wrote to Kaiser Permanente’s kidney transplant program last October, “but whatever it is,… Read More »
From the L.A. Times: Before the HMO opened its kidney transplant center, it failed to alert regulators to the glut of crucial paperwork coming, officials say. By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers May 5, 2006 Kaiser Permanente launched its massive kidney transplant program in 2004 without holding basic discussions with regulators about… Read More »
From the L.A. Times: The HMO would not authorize some patients to receive organs from outside its new program. By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers May 4, 2006 Twenty-five Kaiser Permanente patients in Northern California were denied the chance for new kidneys that were nearly perfectly matched to them last year during… Read More »