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 »
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 »
Disabled man says Kaiser in violation April 13, 2006, from the Oroville Mercury Register: Multiple sclerosis patient who uses wheelchair had sued over access at Oakland hospital A man with multiple sclerosis says Kaiser Permanente is violating a court order requiring it to provide adequate access to disabled patients at its Oakland hospital. John Mannick,… 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 »