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health plan has been
revoked due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
Missing Livermore
man found dazed near Lake Merritt
Family grateful
but may sue
treatment facility
By Roman Gokhman,
STAFF WRITER
Article Last
Updated: 11/06/2007 02:41:26 AM PST
A
Livermore man suffering from a mental condition and liver failure who
was missing after he was dropped off at an Oakland homeless shelter was
found near Lake Merritt on Saturday.
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.html
Modern Healthcare
July 23, 2007
by Rebecca Vesely
Kaiser
probed again;
More patient
dumping alleged in
Los Angeles area
A new
accusation of patient
dumping by a Kaiser Permanente hospital
in the Los Angeles area could put the integrated provider at risk of
new penalties for violating a landmark settlement reached over a highly
publicized incident, according to the city attorney's office.
The
accusation
is one of 10 alleged incidents of patient
dumping by Los Angeles hospitals being pursued by the city attorney's
office. In the past year and a half, the office has received about 70
reports of homeless patient dumping. On June 26, the city filed civil
action against two other area hospitals-410-bed Hollywood Presbyterian
Medical Center in Los Angeles and 334-bed Methodist Hospital of
Southern California in Arcadia-in four other patient dumping incidents.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthcare/nw/?postId=8236
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6363301
New
homeless dumping allegation probed
BY
KERRY CAVANAUGH, Staff Writer
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.
May
15, 2007 Kaiser
agrees to reforms in
settlement with
Los Angeles
aimed at ending homeless 'dumping'
Kaiser
will create new protocols for discharging homeless patients in
its chain of hospitals, train staff and allow retired U.S. District
Court Judge Lourdes G. Baird, a former U.S. attorney, to monitor its
progress, officials said
Tuesday
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
Watch
60 Minutes with Anderson
Cooper
Video Segment on Kaiser
Permanente practice of
Patient Dumping
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2830261n
http://tinyurl.com/29e67s
related
CBS stories at:
http://tinyurl.com/2tmyrb
L.A. CITY ATTORNEY, ROCKY DELGADILLO ANNOUNCES LANDMARK SETTLEMENT WITH KAISER IN
HOMELESS PATIENT DUMPING CASES
http://www.lacity.org/atty/index/attyindex56045233_05152007.pdf
May 15,
2007 Homeless
Dumping Case Settled
LOS
ANGELES,
- On Tuesday, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Kaiser
Permanente announced
a
settlement over the alleged
dumping of a homeless patient
on downtown's Skid Row.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5307645&ft=print
mirrored for
historical purposes
at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/news/ca/may15.html
January
14, 2007 LOS
ANGELES
-- A former employee has sued Kaiser Permanente,
claiming it
"blackballed" her for participating in a criminal investigation into
the alleged dumping of a homeless woman on skid row.
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
L.A.
files patient `dumping' charges
Kaiser
Permanente is
accused of leaving a homeless woman to wander on skid row.
By
Richard Winton
and Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writers
November 16, 2006
The Los
Angeles city attorney's office filed
false-imprisonment and
dependent-care-endangerment charges against hospital giant Kaiser
Permanente on Wednesday, the first criminal prosecution of a medical
center accused of "dumping" patients on skid row........
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
Alleged
Skid Row Dumping Is Captured on Videotape
A
patient released from a Kaiser hospital is shown wandering outside a
downtown
L.A. rescue mission.By Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writer
March 23, 2006
entire story at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-dumping23mar23,1,1193808.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
Also
view
the video of this patient dumping on the LA Times web page
listed above.
Highlights:
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
March
22, 2006 Video
Said
to Capture Skid Row
Dumping
From: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-032206dump_lat,0,5616475.story?coll=la-home-headlines
By
Cara Mia DiMassa
Times Staff
Writer -
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
Friday,
March 26, 1999 High
Court OKs Reduced
Malpractice Sum in Girl's Death
State's
$250,000 limit applies in suit over hospital `dumping'
https://kaiserpapers.com/co/dirtylit.html
Harriet
Chiang, Chronicle Legal Affairs Writer
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
From:
http://cbs2.com/consumer/local_story_016195509.html
A cancer
patient in the fight of his life suddenly has to fight his
HMO at the same time.
They cancelled his membership just when he needed
it most. So we got involved to help
him and what happened next could be
a lesson for everyone.
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
L.A.
Targets Patient Dumping - Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles
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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