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April 2008Patients often struggle for access to medical records by Robert Davis, USA TodayTroy Pingatore and BabyLehna BrewerSee also:Kaiser Thrive Exposed
01/29/2008Kaiser pays $3.2 million in birthing malpractice case
01/29/2008The administrator of Kaiser Permanente's Fresno hospital stepped down Monday, days after the release of a federal report that criticized the way the medical center responded to complaints about a doctor who handled high-risk pregnancies.
01/26/2008Federal inspectors fault its Fresno hospital's response to complaints about a doctor who allegedly fatally botched two deliveries.
10/31/2007Kaiser Appeals DPH fine on Santa ClaraHospital regarding death of newborn.
10/26/07Department of Public Health report on Kaiser -
10/26/2007Kaiser-Santa Clara hospital fined after baby's death$25,000 PENALTY FOR KAISER'S DRUG ERROROctober 26, 2007Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital Fined In Infant Death
October 25, 2007S. Bay Kaiser Hospital Fined in Newborn's Death. - Kaiser Santa Clara
October 19, 2007 - Dr. Charles Phillips provides additional information on Dr. Hamid Safari
October 16,2007 - LA TimesNo One Would Listen - Fresno KaiserDr. Hamid Safari
Justinian Lane "It is much cheaper to let the Baby die instead of getting stuck with the economic damages..."
May 12, 2007 Kaiser hospital in Anaheim defies state board
March 10, 2007State and federal authorities are investigating a medication error at Kaiser Permanente's Santa Clara
Nov. 08, 2005 Kaiser confirms third patient death
Nov. 04, 2005 In July, a 12-year-old girl hospitalized at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Santa Clara was mistakenly given a double dose of epinephrine
August 2002 - Demonstrations against Kaiser Baldwin Park over death of child - The Baby Ryan Huff Story
July 25, 1998Mother blames Kaiser for son's death
Only in KaiserFornia Could This Have Happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1Kaiser Fresno doctor cleared of deaths of two infants Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 - By Marc Benjamin / The Fresno Beehttp://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1197241.htmlmirrored for historical purposes at:https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/children/hamidsafarifresno.htmland"I'm concerned for patients' well-being," Rusche said. "The facts of the case speak for themselves. I'm not sure the facts were really understood at the judicial level."
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-kaiserdoc14-2009feb14,0,7895494.story10/31/2007Kaiser Appeals DPH fine on Santa ClaraHospital regarding death of newborn.http://www.kfty.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b71b1122-f07f-49f2-a32d-c2a5c17bf5cb&rss=495mirrored here for historical purposes at:http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/dphfine.html
Department of Public Health on Kaiser Permanente regarding the Santa Clara Hospital fine of $25,000 at:http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/facilities/Documents/2567KaiserFoundation.pdfandhttp://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/2567KaiserFoundation.pdftext version of the above pdf file is at:http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kaiserpermanentesantaclaratextfine.html
Kaiser-Santa Clara hospital fined after baby's death$25,000 PENALTY FOR KAISER'S DRUG ERRORBy Barbara Feder OstrovMercury News Kaiser-Santa Clara hospital was fined $25,000 Thursday by state health officials after a medication error killed a severely ill baby, in a disturbing replay of two similar incidents since 2004.
The baby boy, born with a genetic disorder that caused a dangerous buildup of ammonia in his body, received two medications that had been improperly packaged. One medication, a nutritional supplement, was given at about 25 times the prescribed dose; the other drug was given at about nine times the prescribed dose.
The infant died on Feb. 24 at 7 weeks old.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7285867mirrored for historical purposes at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/25timesprescribeddose.htmlOct 26, 2007 Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital Fined In Infant Death (AP) SANTA CLARA The death of a severely ill baby who was given the wrong doses of medication at Kaiser-Santa Clara hospital has resulted in the hospital being fined $25,000.http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_299113031.htmlmirrored for historical purposes at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kaisersantaclarafine.html
Oct 25, 2007 9:21 pm US/Pacific S. Bay Kaiser Hospital Fined In Newborn's Death (BCN) SANTA CLARA The Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Santa Clara has been penalized by the California Department of Public Health for policy failures that led to the death of a newborn from over-medication.
The hospital was penalized because the death was a result of "substandard care," CDPH spokeswoman Suanne Buggy said.http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_299002444.htmland mirrorred at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kaisersantaclaranewborn.html
October 16, 2007
Late one April night, the first of Sarah Valenzuela's twins arrived with little trouble, but the second stayed put.
Though the baby was not in distress, Kaiser Permanente perinatologist Hamid Safari attached a vacuum extractor to the boy's head to draw him out. Again and again he tugged, but still the baby would not come.
.............."We do not feel that our perinatologist is competent," reads an August 2005 petition signed by eight of Safari's peers, about half of the ob-gyn department. "Over and over again he put our patients at risks and most recently with the undeniably terrible outcome."
Mirrored at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/noonewouldlisten.html
related news article:WASHINGTON (Reuters)
The United States has a sharply higher rate of women dying during or just after pregnancy than European countries, even some relatively poor countries such as Macedonia and Bosnia, according to the first estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide. "The death rate for women in pregnancy/childbirth is TEN TIMES that of Ireland! SIX times that of " BOSNIA!" See:http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1339620220071013?sp=trueMirrored for historical purposes at: http://nationalnews.kaiserpapers.info/materialdeathrate.html
Kaiser Responds to the above article at: http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/kpresponds/2007-10-15.htmland we have mirrored the response for historical purposes with brief commentary at:http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kaiserresponds.html
State and federal authorities are investigating a medication error at Kaiser Permanente's Santa Clara hospital that led to the death of an infant, Kaiser officials confirmed Friday.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/10/BAGILOJ3D11.DTLmirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/march10.html
From: http://www.kcra.com/news/9765692/detail.html
When Linette McCan's 7-year-old son Gregory came to her complaining of a stomachache last Saturday, she never dreamed her child would be dead the next morning.
She says doctors in the emergency room at Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek hospital ignored Gregory as he suffered from what turned out to be meningococcal sepsis, an infection that led to his death Sunday morning.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/gregorymccan.htmlA panel of medical specialists from Kaiser Permanente has ruled against John and Alicia Bennett's request for insurance coverage for transplanting healthy umbilical cord cells into their sons Hunter, 4, and Tommy, 2.
The boys and their sister, Ciara, 6, suffer from a rare condition known as Sanfilippo syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the heart, bones, joints and respiratory and central nervous systems. It is usually fatal by age 13.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/reject.htmlKaiser Gift Stirs Hope for 2 Ill Brothers https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/brothers.html
Because of a $1-million research donation from Kaiser Permanente, two Amador County boys with a rare genetic disease may soon get experimental transplants that offer the only chance to save their lives.
Kaiser, the state's largest HMO, had refused for months to pay for umbilical cord-blood transplants for Hunter Bennett, 4, and his 2-year-old brother, Tommy. Their 6-year-old sister, Ciara, also has the disease, but is not eligible for the transplant because the illness has progressed too far.
The HMO argued that the transplants themselves could be life-threatening and had not been proved to work. But, after an onslaught of media coverage, Kaiser agreed to donate $1 million to Duke University in North Carolina for research into the children's condition, known as Sanfilippo syndrome. Duke can use the money to cover the boys' medical costs there.
Technically, the HMO's decision does not set a precedent or change its position on covering the experimental treatment--but it allows the family to pursue its only hope.
The HMO's experts say it shouldn't pay for what it calls risky, unproven procedure. The HMO's experts say it shouldn't pay for what it calls risky, unproven procedure. By Cynthia Hubert -- Bee Staff Writer Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Saturday, June 8, 2002 https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/reject.html
SF Times Article on how Kaiser legally murders patients
Sunday, December 2, 2001
In 1994, the parents of a premature infant sued to prevent the imposition of futile care upon their son, "Baby Ryan" Nguyen, after doctors told them they were ending his kidney dialysis.
Ryan would have died, but the Nguyens' attorney obtained a temporary court order forcing doctors to provide continued life-sustaining care pending a full trial.
The doctors and hospital did not take the Nguyens' defiance lying down. They filed an affidavit requesting the right to refuse to provide treatment, claiming that Ryan's condition was "universally fatal" and that continuing life-sustaining treatment was a violation of their ethics and autonomy.
Astonishingly, a hospital administrator even went so far as to report the Nguyen family to Child Protective Services for "physical abuse and physical neglect" of Ryan based on the parents' success in obtaining the injunction to keep their child from death.
Claim: Kaiser failed to prescribe antibiotics to a 4-year-old child who went to the Anaheim emergency room with fever, nausea and joint pain in February 1987. The child developed bacterial spinal meningitis and became deaf as a result of the condition.
Arbitration award: $257,190
Arbitration award: $250,000
Claim: Kaiser urgent care center in Mission Viejo failed to remove glass from the knee of a 9-year-old girl who struck a glass cabinet door in May 1995. Glass was removed surgically more than two years later, causing cartilage damage.
Arbitration award: $407,000
Claim: Kaiser urgent care center in Panorama City failed to diagnose a viral heart ailment in a 6-year-old boy who sought medical care in May 1994. Although he was admitted to a hospital, the boy died several hours later.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/arby.html
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/debate.html Infant Anesthesia Problems Spark Debate By Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writer February 24, 2003
The soul-searching among anesthesiologists at Kaiser Permanente's Woodland Hills hospital began in 1999, after 2-month-old Grant Wray nearly died as he was being sedated for hernia surgery.
Doubts grew the following year when 19-month-old Jose Fajardo III suffered throat spasms during anesthesia, then died.
General anesthesiologists at Woodland Hills questioned whether they could safely care for children so young; they implored hospital leaders to send these patients elsewhere or hire pediatric specialists.
Hospital administrators said the two cases were aberrations and strongly defended using general anesthesiologists for pediatric surgeries. They did, however, make some changes, such as enlisting neonatologists, who specialize in caring for newborns, to help sedate the youngest infants.
Kaiser settles family's lawsuitHis parents blame the hospital for their son's permanent disability after birth. By Ramon Coronado -- Bee Staff Writer - (Published October 10, 2002)
A Kaiser hospital in Sacramento has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its staff neglected to tell a Carmichael couple their newborn son had a treatable medical condition that later injured him permanently.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/coronado.htmlHigh Court OKs Reduced Malpractice Sum in Girl's Death State's $250,000 limit applies in suit over hospital `dumping' Harriet Chiang, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer Friday, March 26, 1999 She arrived at 5:30 p.m. and was examined by a staff physician, Dr. Trach Phoung Dang, who wanted to do blood tests to determine whether she had a bacterial infection. But a doctor at Kaiser Permanente Hospital told him not to do so, saying that the tests could wait until she was transferred to Kaiser. The girl was enrolled in Kaiser's health plan. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1999/03/26/MN102692.DTL
So much for the great Kaiser computer system. They can't even track who writes what prescriptions.! KTVU - Fox Network A Danville couple whose two children were killed by a hit-and-run driver wants new controls on how doctors prescribe drugs. Bob and Carmen say Kaiser permanente shares the death of their two children. A woman charged with being drunk when she hit and killed the children back in 2003. The Packs believe Baretta was under the influence of painkillers at the time prescribed by several different Kaiser doctors. The month of the accident, a Kaiser doctor prescribed 50 vicadin pills without knowing that six days earlier another doctor gave her 50 prescriptions for 50 pills.
updates to this story:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/4516615/detail.html April 27, 2005 - Hit-And-Run Nanny Sentenced To 30 Years To Life http://www.ktvu.com/news/4422543/detail.html
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_NEWS_nkaiser28.58021.html mirrored and preserved at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/newborn.html
Kaiser loses ruling in death of newborn ARBITRATION: An attorney says the doctor used standard procedures to treat the birth defect.
12/28/2002
By DOUGLAS E. BEEMAN THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
A Murrieta couple has won a $1 million arbitration case against Kaiser Permanente stemming from the death of their newborn daughter nearly three years ago. An arbitrator ruled that the doctor who performed the surgery to repair a birth defect used poor judgment when complications arose after the operation.
Under California's law limiting general damages in medical liability cases, the award was reduced to $250,000.
The couple, Rachelle and Leon Phillips, say the award is small compensation for the loss of their child. More important, Rachelle Phillips said, is that Kaiser has been held responsible for its error that cost Renea Phillips her life.Jay Tibbles Sex offender history since 1975- still KP MD https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/kpwierdo.html
Dr. Jay Tibbles, M.D. - Pediatrition that specialized in molestation cases at Kaiser Permanente Fontana As of April 8, 2002 Dr. Jay Harold Tibbles, of Fontana, California convicted of six feloney counts of unlawful attempt to commit lewd acts with a child and five felony counts of unlawful attempt to send harmful matter to a child under 14 years of age with intent to seduce the child. License revoked. Effective, April 8.Kaiser's Dirty Little Secret - Kaiser Bellflower - Dr. Peter Fischer by Susan Goldsmith https://kaiserpapers.info/co/dirtylit.html Kaiser Permanente Hospital Officials were warned twice that pediatrician Dr. Peter Fischer was molesting his boy patients. And they let him keep doing it.
California’s Ailing System of Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/news/ca/childlrenspecial.htmlA FAMILY BRAVES MEDICAL FRONTIERS TO SAVE A GIRL'S LIFE.http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/can/slim.html
Vianna Trenchuk waits alone in a cavernous room. It is empty, except for the cold metal bed she lies on and the machine she hopes will save her life.
Four screws hold an awkward metal frame steady on her head: two in front above her eyes and two behind, where a scar curves like a question mark down the back of her head. Doctors hoped a surgery to remove Vianna's rare tumor three years ago would cure her, but in January, a walnut-sized growth glowed white against black on the 15-year-old's brain scans. The disease was back.
"She is out of options," said Dr. Michael Miller, radiation oncologist at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. "That's a hard thing to accept."
When Kaiser doctors told the family this spring that there is no proven way to save or prolong Vianna's life, her parents, Dwayne and Sandra, launched an odyssey many with cancer brave: They decided to investigate the alternatives on their own.The Matthew Salas Story http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/can/matthewsalas.html
Denied medical treatment at Kaiser Baldwin Park - This story of a little boy that Kaiser had lied to the parents by telling th entire family that he was cured was followed internationally.How Kaiser has mistreated Miss.Breanna Pflaumer - http://www.hembree.us/Breanna.html
Breanna Pflaumer is a young lady with parents that knew Kaiser wasn't telling all. For two years Kaiser had been pretending that she had little if anything wrong with her. For two years this young lady suffered and for two years Kaiser pretended that they did not know what was really wrong. This isn't malpractice, this is called committing fraud. Kaiser did it on purpose to avoid treating a patient.Breanna was losing a lot of weight and had developed serious neurological problems. In characteristic Kaiser behavior several months went by before Kaiser could get around to allowing Breanna to be properly examined. Meanwhile Breanna's parents kept taking her back to Kaiser for medical care. This is called Kaiser medical billing fraud and is highly profitable to the company. Repeated co-pays being paid by patients that are being strung along make up a mighty tidy income for Kaiser. Kaiser staff played dumb and people do get the idea when this happens that the place is run by unprofessional, improperly trained phyciains. Nothing is further from the truth. They know exactly what they are doing with these matters and they are doing it on purpose.
When Kaiser was finally forced into examining this young lady they followed their classic pattern of delay of diagnosis by sending her to first an endocrinologist who misdiagnosed her, lied about what tests were run and sent her off to a dietician claiming that she had a eating disorder thus labeling her a mental patient.
Whenever any patient is labeled a mental patient in the Kaiser system that should be a big red flag to get a through physical examination somewhere else immediately.
To continue this standard treatment Kaiser tried to transfer the burden of actual cause of disease onto the patient. This is again a classic attempt to distract from what they are actually doing which is avoid providing medical care while collecting those co-pays. Finally, near the end of 2004 Kaiser diagnosed her with inoperable cancer. This is the time of year when Kaiser will intentionally misdiagnosis or underdiagnose or outright lie to the patient that there is no hope in order to have enough money left over in their budget to transfer to the Permanente for the physicians retirement fund.
Breanna's parents got her medical care outside the Kaiser system at their own expense. The fake Kaiser Review Board is refusing to reimburse the family for actual costs of "real" medical care. If it were a true Review Board the family would have already been reimbursed. Read the entire story and how it is progressing at: http://www.hembree.us/Breanna.htmlJune 26, 2005- TRAGEDY AND TRAVESTY AT KAISER HOSPITALhttp://horror.kaiserpapers.info/can/kptravesty.html
A letter from Dr. Nayvin Gordon regarding the substandard care his daughter, a twenty year old San Francisco State University student received at Kaiser. Were it not for the Kaiser diluted, overly managed, corporate cost cutting features of standard, accepted by the entire world life saving procedures this young lady may well have not suffered permanent brain damage. Kaiser really botched this case but instead of owning up to it pulled strings all over the State of California with every government agency in existence to not be held accountable. The clock is ticking Kaiser and you are going to fall hard when the bell rings. Your time is past and we are all just going to let you lie there in the mud where you deserve to be.
Mirrored for historical purposes at:http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/children/kaiserfresnosafaribabykiller.html
01/29/2008The administrator of Kaiser Permanente's Fresno hospital stepped down Monday, days after the release of a federal report that criticized the way the medical center responded to complaints about a doctor who handled high-risk pregnancies.
In a written statement released late Monday, Kaiser said Fresno hospital administrator Susan Ryan had resigned, effective immediately.
Last week, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a report suggesting that if Kaiser Fresno had kept a closer watch over its medical staff, two babies might still be alive.
The review was the latest in a series of critical assessments of the giant health maintenance organization, the nation's largest with 6.5 million members in California.
mirrored for historical purposes at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/children/fresnoadministrator.html
A 14-year-old Lake Forest girl who suffered brain damage during her birth at Kaiser Permanente's Anaheim hospital received a $3.2 million settlement this month.
Ariana Ehtemam wasn't breathing when she was delivered by Caesarean section and now suffers from physical and behavioral problems, according to court documents.
The money from Kaiser has purchased an annuity worth $20 million over her lifetime. She will receive the first payment at 18.
Her parents, Ardie and Ela Ehtemam, declined to comment through their attorney, Frank Barbaro.
The settlement was reached after a binding arbitration decision in favor of the family.
http://www.ocregister.com/life/kaiser-million-family-1969345-ehtemam-needmirrored for historical purposes at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/children/ArianaEhtemam.html
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