Please join us in welcoming KaiserVictims.org to the growing ranks of web sites dedicated to exposing the egregious, and oftentimes deadly abuses of power and patients at Kaiser Permanente (gazillion dollar Thrive campaign notwithstanding). From the site’s introduction: This is a collaborative community project that intends to provide a public record of serious medical errors.… Read More »
[kaiserthrive.org editor’s note: We’re sure the family of the baby who was killed will find great comfort in the fact that Kaiser might be fined for ending this child’s life forever, before it ever began. We’ll believe it when we see it, but any slap on the wrist the State might impose won’t even begin… Read More »
Medication Mistake? Infant Dies At Kaiser At Kaiser Hospital In Santa Clara KGO By Karina Rusk Mar. 9 – KGO – An infant has died at a Kaiser hospital from what appears to be a medication mistake. The death of a newborn child at Kaiser Santa Clara happened within the past week. Kaiser Permanente issued… Read More »
[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 the Los Angeles Times: Kaiser replaces chief of digital records project — An outsider will take over the troubled $4-billion effort from Bruce Turkstra. By Daniel Costello, Times Staff Writer The senior executive overseeing Kaiser Permanente’s massive effort to digitize its members’ medical records is being replaced, the company said Monday, the latest sign… Read More »
Update 7/27/07: This post has been up long enough to make its point, so we’re shortening all of the last names to initials. Update 2/27/07: A little bird tells us there’s a full-fledged witch hunt going on inside KP HealthConnect in response to this post. It’s being reported that Vijaya Rogers has been running around… Read More »
From the Los Angeles Times: Kaiser has aches, pains going digital — Patients’ welfare is at stake in the electronic effort, experts say. By Daniel Costello, Times Staff Writer Kaiser Permanente’s $4-billion effort to computerize the medical records of its 8.6 million members has encountered repeated technical problems, leading to potentially dangerous incidents such… 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 »