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 »
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 »
Video Said to Capture Skid Row Dumping By Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writer 2:00 PM PST, March 22, 2006 Authorities released a videotape this afternoon of what they say is the dumping of a 63-year-old woman on the streets of skid row. The videotape, recorded by security cameras outside the Union Rescue Mission entrance… 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 »
From a former Kaiser IT employee: I was employed by Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek California in the Information Technology Department. During my employment there I developed a comfortable working relationship with a Kaiser programmer. She confessed that Kaiser had an official senior management policy against the hiring of any Hispanics in the Information Technology… Read More »
[editor: The following email from a former Kaiser Permanente Northwest employee who suffered racial discrimination in her position at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, was received by us quite some time ago, but somehow got lost in our inbox. Our apologies to Ms. Bell. In other news, the Margaret McIlroy… Read More »
From the AP, via the Insurance Journal: Up to 700 Women in West Not Told about Placenta Registry As many as 700 women along the West Coast were not told that an institute financed by the insurance industry kept their placentas after giving birth in order to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits, according… Read More »
California attorney, Marc Primo of Initiative Legal, is seeking hourly Kaiser employees to assist with his investigation into illegal Kaiser wage practices. Marc’s announcement and contact info is below: My name is Marc Primo and I am an attorney. My law firm is currently investigating various violations of California’s labor laws by Kaiser. If you… Read More »