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INDEX KAISER PERMANENTE PATIENT DUMPING ARTICLES OF INTEREST Aug. 29, 2009 Probe faults Kaiser for leaving brain-injured man on Sacramento streets
11/06/2007 Missing Livermore man found dazed near Lake Merritt (note while this patient dumping involves a contracting facility of Kaiser Permanente they should assume joint responsibility for the loss of this patient.)
10/25/2007 Livermore resident was discharged from facility, dropped off in Oakland
July 23, 2007 Modern Healthcare
New homeless dumping allegation probed
May 15, 2007 Kaiser agrees to reforms in settlement with Los Angeles aimed at ending homeless 'dumping'
Watch 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper Video Segment on Kaiser Permanente practice of Patient Dumping
L.A. CITY ATTORNEY, ROCKY DELGADILLO
May 15, 2007 Homeless Dumping Case Settled
January 14, 2007 A former employee has sued Kaiser Permanente
November 16, 2006 L.A. files patient `dumping' charges
March 22, 2006 Video Said to Capture Skid Row Dumping
March 23, 2006 Alleged Skid Row Dumping Is Captured on Videotape
Jan 16, 2006 Just a few days before his fourth scheduled treatment, Scott received this letter from Kaiser, which says, “your membership in Kaiser foundation health plan has been revoked due to the intentional misrepresentation of your health history.
November 17, 2000 Kaiser pays $61,000 to settle South Sac patient-dumping case
March 26, 1999 High Court OKs Reduced Malpractice Sum in Girl's Death
April 19, 1997 Kaiser must improve care in Richmond High 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
The family of John Kenneth Wojcik said he was near death when found, and may still not recover from his ailments.
"He's in the ICU and he's very sick," said his mother, Doreen Rakey. "When he was brought in, his body temperature was 81.5 degrees."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_7383673?source=most_emailed mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping//livermoremanfound.html
Man
missing from treatment center
Livermore
resident was discharged
from facility, dropped off in Oakland
By Roman Gokhman,
STAFF WRITER
Article Last
Updated: 10/25/2007 08:24:34 AM PDT
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_7276086
Another Kaiser Patient Dumped! Livermore man reported missing Patient at mental health facility was dropped off at homeless shelter, wife says By Roman Gokhman STAFF WRITER Contra Costa Times Article Launched:10/25/2007 03:03:32 AM PDT
.....Corazon Wojcik said she called the facility Friday to ask where her husband had been transferred and was told he was discharged the previous day and taken to a homeless shelter in Oakland.
"They arranged to have him transported there," Livermore police Lt. Scott Trudeau said. "Why they would do that we don't know."
He said the Tri-Valley does not have any homeless shelters for men, but that does not explain why John Wojcik was taken to a homeless shelter when he was not homeless.
Corazon Wojcik said she immediately called the shelter but was not able to reach anyone until Saturday. Then she was told that everyone who spent the previous night there had left for the day.
Kaiser Permanente spokeswoman Gerri Ginsburg said she does not know the specifics of what led to John Wojcik's disappearance.
"We're investigating this actively," she said. "Because of patient privacy laws, we can't discuss an individual case."
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_7276590?nclick_check=1 mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping/kaiser-patient-dumping-livermore.htmlhttp://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthcare/nw/?postId=8236
The City Attorney's Office is investigating whether Kaiser Permanente dumped a homeless patient on Skid Row, in violation of a settlement reached in a previous case.
The latest inquiry began after officials learned that workers from Kaiser's Baldwin Hills hospital took a 26-year-old man with severe back pain to homeless shelters downtown against his will, officials said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/15/america/NA-GEN-US-Homeless-Dumping.php
mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping/reformbyda.html
mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/news/ca/may15.html
Irene Hernandez, 50, of Downey said Kaiser's hospital in Bellflower stopped employing her as a registry nursing assistant after she cooperated with the Los Angeles city attorney's office investigation into alleged patient-dumping by the HMO.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070113-1229-ca-brf-homelessdumping.html http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/14/news/state/16_33_051_13_07.txt mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping/irenehernandez.html
If convicted, Kaiser Permanente would be placed on probation that would limit its behavior and contain potential penalties.
Any criminal finding could influence a medical facility's bonding and its ratings by medical organizations.
Rosenbaum said that meetings with Kaiser and hospitals failed to yield reform — and that was part of the reason for the court filings. "It is like they lit a match to the Hippocratic oath," he said. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dumping16nov16,0,3911487.story?coll=la-home-headlines
mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping/rocky.html
The mission has been sending tapes and written logs of alleged dumping incidents to the Los Angeles city attorney's office.
Reyes of Gardena was released Monday after being a patient at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center for three days, the hospital said. Capt. Andrew Smith of the LAPD's Central Division said that he believes the taxi took Reyes to skid row against her will.
Reyes said in an interview that she could not remember what happened when she left the hospital or how she got to skid row.
City Councilwoman Jan Perry, who showed reporters the video at a news conference, called the dumping of the woman "egregious."
mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping/dumpedreyes.html
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. .....LAPD Capt. Andrew Smith said he believes the taxi took the woman, a 63-year-old Gardena resident, downtown against her will after she was discharged from Kaiser Permanente Bellflower on Monday....In addition, LAPD officials have said that they often see people with hospital wristbands on skid row, often appearing ill and sometimes wearing colostomy bags. Mirrored at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/dumping/skidrow.html
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
Scott Bracy is the father of a three-month-old baby girl, and he’s fighting for his life.
In August Scott was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Doctors at Kaiser Permanente medical center in Riverside told him with aggressive chemotherapy treatment he would have a twelve percent chance of survival.
Then, just a few days before his fourth scheduled treatment, Scott received this letter from Kaiser, which says, “your membership in Kaiser foundation health plan has been revoked due to the intentional misrepresentation of your health history." An allegation that Scott vehemently denies. Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/bracy.html
November 17, 2000 Kaiser pays $61,000 to settle South Sac patient-dumping case
Kaiser paid fines totaling $61,000 on June 28, 2000 to settle the matter, and adopted a number of measures to ensure strict compliance with the law.
Kaiser's East Bay Medical Center in Richmond paid $25,000 to settle similar allegations under the 1986 Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act.
http://sacramento.bcentral.com/sacramento/stories/2000/11/13/daily26.html
Kaiser must improve care in Richmond - Eric Brazil, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Saturday, April 19, 1997 Kaiser has drawn criticism since the deaths earlier this year of three patients who sought care at Richmond but were transferred because Richmond's intensive care unit wasn't open. CNA said Kaiser's decision to reduce the level of care at its East Bay facilities amounted to "medical red-lining." http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/e/a/1997/04/19/NEWS2814.dtl
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