[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 »
From the Los Angeles Times: Authorities investigate allegations that a Kaiser surgeon in San Luis Obispo hastened a possible donor’s demise. By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers February 28, 2007 Police are investigating whether a Kaiser Permanente transplant surgeon attempted to hasten the death last February of a 26-year-old San Luis Obispo… Read More »
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… 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 SignOnSandiego.com: Medical board says physician ignored man’s cancer symptoms By David Hasemyer UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 23, 2006 For the last two years of her husband’s life, Shirley Gaytan watched him wither away. They both knew something was wrong, yet repeated visits to his doctor failed to provide an answer to his worsening health.… Read More »
From the Los Angeles Times: By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers October 11, 2006 Kaiser Permanente’s disgraced San Francisco kidney transplant program had failed to remove the names of 90 dead patients from the national waiting list for organs, state officials discovered after the program shut down amid scandal in May. Kaiser… Read More »
[kaiserthrive.org editor’s note: Kaiser ALWAYS “loses” records when there is a problem. In fact, we’ve never heard of one single case of a dispute with Kaiser in which the incriminating evidence wasn’t “lost,” and/or the documentation falsified. Since Kaiser controls all of the evidence, this in combo with its rigged arbitration system is how it… Read More »
By Evelyn Pringle Although the $2 million fine levied against Kaiser Permanente was the largest ever imposed by the California Department of Managed Health Care, it seems like small potatoes considering the damage caused by the HMO’s failed kidney transplant program. The second largest fine ever levied against an HMO was $1 million back in… Read More »
[kaiserthrive.org editor: Finally, vindication for the ‘disgruntled’ ex-members and -employees who have had their mental health questioned for complaining that Kaiser always handles grievances this way. We hope the DMHC will also investigate itself for pretending it hasn’t been ignoring the problem for years.] From the L.A. Times: By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times… Read More »
From the Los Angeles Times: By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers August 10, 2006 Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay a $2-million fine after state HMO regulators found that its Northern California kidney transplant program imperiled hundreds of patients, in some cases delaying critical surgeries or losing track of patients altogether, four… Read More »