From the Los Angeles Times: Suit accuses Kaiser of blackballing Nursing assistant says she hasn’t been able to get work since aiding a patient-dumping probe. By Tami Abdollah, Times Staff Writer January 13, 2007 A former employee has sued Kaiser Permanente, claiming that the HMO “blackballed” her for participating in a criminal investigation into the… Read More »
From the Los Angeles Times: L.A. files patient ‘dumping’ charges — Kaiser Permanente is accused of leaving a homeless woman to wander on skid row. By Richard Winton and Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writers November 16, 2006 The Los Angeles city attorney’s office filed false-imprisonment and dependent care endangerment charges against hospital giant Kaiser… 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 »
Surgeon indicted on perjury charge — He’s accused of offering false alibi at gunman’s trial Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer A San Francisco surgeon was indicted Thursday on charges that he committed perjury during a federal trial in 2002 in an attempt to win an acquittal for a man he had sponsored in a drug… 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 »
(AP) SACRAMENTO Thirteen former Kaiser Permanente custodians in Sacramento have sued the health care giant alleging racial discrimination. The lawsuit claims that the September 2005 terminations of 12 blacks and a Fijian-Indian over timecard violations were racially motivated. It also alleges that preferential treatment was given to white employees for scheduling vacations or taking sick… 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 »
From the Sacramento Bee: Case now includes accusations by 13 female patients. By Christina Jewett — Bee Staff Writer The former Kaiser plastic surgeon charged in June with sexually exploiting a patient now faces charges of sexual misconduct toward 13 patients, according to an updated criminal complaint. Dr. Scott Takasugi is alleged to have unnecessarily… 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 »