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 »
From the L.A. Times: By opening its own transplant center in the Bay Area, the HMO harmed recipients’ odds of obtaining organs, a Times probe finds. By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers May 3, 2006 In mid-2004, more than 1,500 Kaiser Permanente patients awaiting kidney transplants in Northern California got form letters… Read More »
Apr. 19 – KGO – A South Bay lawmaker is pushing for changes when it comes to medical errors and how they’re reported. Four people died in just over a year at two South Bay Kaiser facilities. There’s action at the state capitol where a hospital safety bill is moving forward. This Senate hearing is… Read More »
Dr Death on the run in the US March 10, 2006 – 6:04AM, from the AAP via The Sydney Morning Herald: Dr Jayant Patel, the rogue surgeon linked to 13 patient deaths at a Queensland hospital, is on the run again – this time from a $2 million lawsuit in the United States over the… Read More »
Permanente Medical Group CEO, Dr. Robbie Pearl, invokes father’s tragic death by medical error to further the cover up at Kaiser Unconscionable, Dr. Pearl; simply unconscionable. We cite Kaiser Permanente Northwest’s deliberate failure to report malpractice cases to Oregon regulators as required by law for THIRTEEN YEARS, keeping with Kaiser’s policy that no wrongdoing has… Read More »
Revisiting the case of a woman whose cancer was misdiagnosed, medical regulators decide to censure five more physicians. November 22, 2005 By Debora Vrana, L.A.Times Staff Writer The Medical Board of California, reversing an earlier position, has decided to publicly censure all six Kaiser Permanente doctors involved in the death of a Woodland Hills woman… Read More »
KGO By Debora Villalon Nov. 11 – KGO – A doctor who once worked at Kaiser Permanente in South San Francisco claims preventable medical mistakes happened too often at that hospital. He says cost-cutting moves put patients’ lives in danger, and when he tried to warn Kaiser, he was fired. Dr. Cyrus Safai, former Kaiser… Read More »
Hospitals blamed in more deaths By David L. Beck Mercury News Kaiser Permanente officials have confirmed the deaths of two more patients caused by staff errors at its South Bay hospitals. The deaths bring to at least four the number of fatal incidents at Kaiser facilities during the past 13 months. Three of the deaths… Read More »