Offers Tailored End-of-Life Services to Patients with Advanced Heart or Lung Disease : 16.1.1 Case Study - Kaiser Permanente Bellflower - 

Palliative Care Programs Help People With CHF/COPD Stay Home - and Stay Health
by Janice Lynch Schuster of Kaiser Bellflower

You are also responsible as a human being to advocate for said patient.  No one in any HMO is going to do it for you willingly and whole-heartedly. They may pretend that they are doing all they can for you but it is time for everyone to grow up, get the blinders off of their eyes and take responsibility for their own medical care. 

A HMO is an insurance company and they are in business to make money. This includes all HMO's that claim non profit status. Too many people have died because they trusted unfounded cost cutting measures.  Let us as a nation stop this trend and assume personal responsibility for our own lives and those that we love by actively overseeing the medical care administered by any medical establishment in this country.

We have quite a few reports from Kaiser victims regarding the Bellflower and Baldwin Park facilities so it is appropriate at this time to present applicable links that will help the public make their own life choice decisions.  Anything that links directly to Kaiser and is self reported by them I hope you will take the time and trouble to compare it to recognized, non Kaiser protocols. Outside of Kaiser links I also hope that you will check out to see if there is a financial relationship between them and Kaiser or the Permanente Alliance. 

If you want to possibly be an experiment for a Kaiser data bank that they are paid to create, that is your decision, but at least know what you are getting involved in before you do it.  Not all patients suffer or die at Kaiser Bellflower nor Baldwin Park. Some people do have positive experiences at Kaiser Bellflower and Baldwin Park, unfortunately I have not yet heard from one of them but the odds are that is a accurate statement.

Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Baldwin Park is
under lockdown, officials said today.
  
Reyna Delharo, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said police were in the
medical center and that a patient was being investigated, but it's not clear
why. A Baldwin Park police dispatcher said the hospital was under lockdown, but
would not say why. ABC7 reported that the lockdown was related to a possible
gang shooting, but Delharo said there had been no shooting inside the hospital.

BALDWIN PARK, Oct. 28, 2007 (CNS) - An anonymous caller threatened to attack someone inside Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Baldwin Park Sunday, prompting police to guard the hospital and monitor patients and staff.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5730966

mirrored at:  https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/lockdownatbaldwinpark.html

http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_7308883

mirrored at:  https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/lockdownatbaldwinpark.html

L.A. files patient `dumping' charges

see also:  http://tinyurl.com/2cfvd9Watch 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper
Video Segment on Kaiser Permanente practice of Patient Dumping
http://tinyurl.com/29e67s
related CBS stories at:
http://tinyurl.com/2tmyrb

see also:  Developing Map of Kaiser locations where patients were victimized.
http://tinyurl.com/2cfvd9

mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping/dumpedreyes.html

Kaiser's Dirty Little Secret - Kaiser Bellflower -  Dr. Peter Fischer  by Susan Goldsmith

Kaiser Permanente Hospital Officials were warned twice that pediatrician Dr. Peter Fischer was molesting his boy patients.  And they let him keep doing it.

https://kaiserpapers.com/co/dirtylit.html

The above were some highlights of the place.  The following is displaying some reality.  Read carefully the presented material.  Of course it does not mean that everyone  in these facilities consistently conduct business in such a manner but it is material that you should be aware of.

Practice Medicine in Bellflower Kaiser - Physician Careers

{Many of our physicians enjoy teaching teaching appointments at leading southern California univerisity medical centers...

In addition a number of our physicians  are actively engaged in ongoing research and are regularly published in medical journals.  An emphasis is placed on continuing education and peer consulting and interaction.}

TRANSLATION OF THE ABOVE:  If your assigned doctor has the time to see you maybe he will. Doctors that have time to write regularly for journals, if they really are doing the writing don't have time to see many patients.  As for appointments unless a particular physician has done something really spectacular Kaiser simply donates a lot of money to universities and in return one of the things Kaiser gets back is getting to say that their physicians are appointed to major universities.

Peer review:  Believe at your own peril - The following is a perfect example of Peer Review:

Nichols vs. Kaiser - $1,100,000 against Kaiser Permanente

This is a real beauty of a lawsuit created because of the inefficiency of Bellflower.  Dr. Karen Maples assumed that the Bellflower staff had done their job correctly.  A patient who already had six children wanted a tubal ligation (Tubal ligation (informally known as getting one's "tubes tied") is a permanent form of female sterilization, in which the fallopian tubes are severed and sealed or "pinched shut", in order to prevent fertilization. Hormone production, libido, and the menstrual cycle are not affected by a tubal ligation.)

When  Dr. Maples performed this surgery the patient did not know of her condition.   Several weeks later it was determined that she was pregnant.  It was by this time too late for the patient to abort and the child was born with several serious problems.  

Dr. Maples was more than upset when she learned that the staff had not done their job and run a test to see if the patient was pregnant.  Dr. Maples also did not bother to check the patients chart to verify what was and what was not done prior to the surgery.

RESULT:  $1,100,000 arbitration award

https://kaiserpapers.com/legalstuff/blumberg.html

Same Karen Maples, M.D. that was a voting member at the FDA OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEVICES PANEL

FIFTY-EIGHTH MEETING in 1997 in Rockville, Maryland.  See:   https://kaiserpapers.com/fdadrmaples.rtf

Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park nurse license suspended by Judge

April 7, 2004

"Related material presented in the hearing showed that nurse Vynola E. Gadsby demonstrated a serious disregard'' for state, California board of registered nursing and hospital regulations on at least two occasions, said Administrative Law Judge H. Stuart Waxman.

To adequately protect the public, Waxman said Gadsby's license must be suspended on an interim basis, while the nursing board proceeds with legal proceedings to try and revoke it. Gadsby is currently on paid administrative leave from her position at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, according to court documents."

https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/licensegone.html

September 23, 2003

Baldwin Park, Calif., Hospital Seeks Normalcy after Doctor Is Shot

The Perioperative Medicine Service: An Innovative Practice at Kaiser Bellflower Medical Center
By Marcus D Magallanes, MD

16.1.1 Case Study - Kaiser Permanente Bellflower

Sourcebook : 16.1 Offer Tailored End-of-Life Services to Patients with Advanced Heart or Lung Disease : 16.1.1 Case Study - Kaiser Permanente Bellflower

More detailed information on the finacial rewards for doing in the patients, especially when the government is paying for their medical care can be found her at:  http://medicalserialkillers.kaiserpapers.com/pdfs/
ODYSSEYHEALTHCA10Q.pdf.

See the Evidence at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/cnadir.html
The above is documentation accumulated by The California Nurses Association that they have graciously allowed us to duplicate here.

Cases Reveal Lapses In Emergency Care

The Kaiser Permanente doctor who examined Harun Antwine had worked at least 10 hours that day, seeing 25 patients in his office and 15 more that evening at the HMO's Fontana urgent care center.
The swamped physician didn't spot Antwine's serious bacterial infection, and the 29-year-old patient left urgent care without antibiotics, Antwine's family lawyer says. The father of three young children died two days later.
"It was a classic case of failing to treat a patient [who] really needed it," said lawyer Gregory Patton, who won an $848,000 arbitration award from Kaiser stemming from Antwine's 1998 death. "Their doctors are really, really overworked." In justifying a $1.1-million fine against Kaiser, state regulators cited three patient deaths and said the cases demonstrated a pattern of problems in emergency care that has put the HMO's 6 million California members at risk.

The Matthew Salas Story
https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/can/matthewsalas.html
Denied medical treatment at Kaiser Baldwin Park - This story is of a little boy that Kaiser had lied to his parents by telling them that had been cured of cancer.  In spite of obvious symptoms of serious illness Kaiser persisted in telling the parents that this sweet little boy was healthy until it was too late to do anything to help him.This story was followed internationally. News video on this page.

The Arthur Ryan Huff Story
https://kaiserpapers.com/news/ca/ryanhuff.html

The Arthury Ryan Huff Story is  very similar to the one above.  This page contains various news videos.  Again Kaiser told the parents that they were imagining that they child was ill and that nothing was wrong until it was too late to help him.

The doctors at Kaiser Hospital in Bellflower after many tests and surgeries and a very long time in I.C.U. 

Medicare has paid hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to various doctors and hospitals, and even to one hospice in Norwalk, CA due to my illness of Osler-Webber Rondue and related illnesses. The doctors at Kaiser Hospital in Bellflower after many tests and surgeries and a very long time in I.C.U. told my parents and myself that I was going to die, and the best place for me was in a hospice so they transferred me by ambulance there. After I felt a little better my parents and I talked. I told my Dr. Alie, head of hematology and oncology that I was not ready to die and that I wanted to leave the hospice, he said he thought that it was a very stupid thing to do, and after a lot of talking he said that I would have to sign a form stating that it was against medical advice, before I could leave! Then about 2 months later I had what the doctors said was an abscess on my left upper leg. After tests and the scheduled surgery the orthopedic surgeon Dr. John Chew said I would be in the hospital for a day or two. I spent 47 days in the hospital, saw 4 different doctors, more tests and surgeries, all at Medicare expense! Now I find a great doctor and his treatments work. You call it unconventional, but it works. I would recommend him to anyone that has a real problem and wants to get better. I would appreciate you not bothering me again. I am very lucky I found Dr. Tong. He never shies away from a problem.

This morning at 9:13 AM, January 6th 1993. Mr. David Jacobs from the Medicare Integrity unit came to my house, without an appointment, he asked me many questions about my doctor. Evidently he was not satisfied with my answers and then he started to tell me what to say. I refused and asked him to leave. He then told me that he could have my Medicare benefits suspended if I refuse to cooperate in his investigation! He said the treatments are unconventional and relief is very short at best.]

Kaiser Baldwin Park-

Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center: Pioneer in LaborManagement Partnership

"All leaders are responsible for the performance of their units, including financial aspects, level of service to patients, and quality of care delivered. Leaders also perform or oversee all unit functions, such as patient care, scheduling staff, keeping medical records, tracking competency, processing admissions, assigning beds, and coordinating with support departments. This operational configuration is very different from the traditional unit structures found in most hospitals and health systems across the country." 

https://kaiserpapers.com/parkie.html