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TO KAISER PERMANENTE KIDNEY TRANSPLANT INDEX HOOTAN ROOZROKN KIASER TRANSPLANT SURGEON ARTICLES HERE  November 7, 2007Judge has ruled - Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, his partner, Dr. Arturo Martinez, and Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. Oct. 14, 2007 Doctor’s next appearance in court set for Oct. 29 Sep 12, 2007 The doctor accused of rushing one patients death to harvest his organs plead not guilty today. July 31, 2007 Transplant surgeon charged with trying to hasten patient's death July 30, 2007 Transplant surgeon accused of administering drugs to hasten death March 2, 2007 Dead? Or Just About? Then Kaiser Wants You!! March 2, 2007 Report tells of errors in organ case February 28, 2007 Police probe death in organ donation case KAISER KIDNEY TRANSPLANT STORIES February 15, 2007 UC San Francisco takes over last part of Kaiser's kidney transplant program September 14, 2006 U.S. Won't Cut Funding for Kaiser Kidney Services September 1, 2006 Medi-Cal funding in jeopardy for 4 state transplant centers June 24, 2006 US Berates Kaiser Over Kidney Effort June 16, 2006 Kaiser Slow to Transfer Kidney Patients May 26, 2006 Swift Switch for Key Kaiser Patients May 19, 2006 Health-care execs diagnose Kaiser ills after kidney failure May 18, 2006 Kaiser Told to Fix Problems With Kidney Patient Hotline May 13, 2006 Kaiser Halts Kidney Venture May 10, 2006 State Steps In on Kaiser Transplants May 11, 2006 Kaiser Official Apologizes May 9, 2006 U.S. Begins Kaiser Probe May 5, 2006 Kaiser Slow to Transfer Patients May 4, 2006 Kaiser Denied Transplants of Ideally Matched Kidneys May 3, 2006 State Launches Probe Of Kaiser Transplant Program February 16, 2006 Kaiser transplant exec exits after 2 months |
Judge
rules
that transplant surgeon accused of hastening a local man's death can
abstain from civil suit Posted: Nov 8, 2007 08:13 AM Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Reported by: Amy Andrews SAN LUIS OBISPO A judge has ruled the surgeon involved in the failed organ harvest that left a San Luis Obispo man dead can abstain from the civil suit against him for the time being. Rosa Navarro is suing multiple defendants in connection with the death of her son, Ruben, last February at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center. Among the defendants are San Francisco surgeon Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, his partner, Dr. Arturo Martinez, and Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. The civil case will continue for the remaining defendants. http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=7330729 From:http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/166451.html Doctor’s
next appearance in court set for Oct. 29 Sarah Arnquist San Luis Obispo County prosecutors filed three felony charges in July against San Fran-cisco transplant surgeon Hootan Roozrokh, alleging he prescribed excessive doses of painkillers and sedatives last year to hasten the death of Ruben Navarro in order to harvest his organs. More than six people contributed to Navarro’s care that night, including two other licensed doctors and four licensed nurses, but only Roozrokh faces criminal charges. Read more...... mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/oct292007.html Transplant surgeon charged with trying to hasten patient's death The
physician faces felony
counts alleging he tried to hasten a man's demise to make use of his
organs.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-transplant31jul31,0,7257401.story?coll=la-home-center
Doctor Pleads Not Guilty For Aiding In Death of Patient The
doctor accused of rushing one patients death to harvest his organs
plead not guilty today.
Kaiser Permanente Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was not in court today to make his plea. However, his attorney was there and is now working to appeal one of the three charges brought against his client. The doctor was charged in July with dependent-adult abuse, administering a harmful substance and unlawfully prescribing of a controlled substance. The attorney plans to object to the second count of administering a lethal substance on the next court date in October. The judge denied a gag order without prejudice to the media. If convicted of all charges, Roozrokh could face up to eight years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Prosecutors say Roozrokh prescribed excessive amounts of drugs to speed up Ruben Navaro's death. The 25-year-old suffered from Brain Damage and Cerebral Palsy and was in a coma on life support at the time. Roozrokh did not appear in court today and his presence isn't required unless the case goes to trial. Story Updated: Sep 12, 2007 at 3:36 PM PDT From: http://www.keyt.com/news/local/9745217.htm
Transplant surgeon accused of administering drugs to hasten deathJuly 30, 2007 Monday
with
prescribing excessive drugs to a comatose, disabled patient
to hasten
his death and harvest his organs for transplantation. Prosecutors
in San Luis Obispo County said Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, of
San Francisco, gave a harmful
drug and prescribed excessive
doses of
morphine and a sedative to 26-year-old Ruben Navarro, who
died in 2006. Dead? Or Just About? Then Kaiser Wants You!! Commentary by John Boston Mr. SCV Friday March 2, 2007 http://www.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=46742&format=html mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/hootonroozrokh.html Police probe death in organ donation case Authorities
investigate allegations that a Kaiser surgeon in San Luis
and
commentary at:Obispo hastened a possible donor's demise. http://corphq.livejournal.com/ mirrored here for historical purposes: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/obispoprobe.html Report tells of errors in organ case U.S.
regulators detail how a potential
donor was given huge doses of
sedatives and painkillers
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historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/navarro.html
as six people watched. Police probe death in organ donation case Authorities
investigate allegations
that a Kaiser surgeon in San Luis Obispo hastened a possible
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-transplant28feb28,0,930450,full.storydonor's demise. mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/policeprobe.html UC San Francisco takes over last part of Kaiser's kidney transplant program http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-kidney15feb15,1,6863217.story?coll=la-headlines- pe-california UC San Francisco has taken over a post-transplant clinic for kidney patients at Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco hospital, bringing to an end Kaiser's brief — and scandal-plagued — foray into the organ transplant business. mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/misguidedforay.html KAISER PERMANENTE KIDNEY TRANSPLANT ARTICLES UC
San Francisco takes over last part of Kaiser's kidney transplant program UC San Francisco has taken over a post-transplant clinic for kidney patients at Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco hospital, bringing to an end Kaiser's brief — and scandal-plagued — foray into the organ transplant business. mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/misguidedforay.html U.S. Won't Cut Funding for Kaiser Kidney Services Federal regulators said Wednesday that they have rescinded their threat to cut off Medicare funding for kidney services at Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco hospital. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made the threat in June after determining that virtually every part of Kaiser's kidney transplant program in Northern California had failed patients. http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-kaiser14sep14,1,4833842.story?coll=la-health-medicine Mirrored for Historical Purpsoes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/nologic.html CALIFORNIA Medi-Cal funding in jeopardy for 4 state transplant centers Heart program at California Pacific among those cited Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer - vcolliver@sfchronicle.com Friday, September 1, 2006 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/01/BAGSJKT7RF1.DTL&type=healt US Berates Kaiser Over Kidney Effort - A withering report says the transplant program was poorly planned, staffed and run. By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers June 24, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kaiser24jun24,1,2969833.story mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/usberates.html Kaiser Slow to Transfer Kidney Patients - June 16, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-kaiser16jun16,1,4106133.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california Swift Switch for
Key Kaiser Patients
The 141 people closest to getting kidneys will go to two UC centers from the HMO's suspended program as soon as next week, regulators say. By
Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
May 26, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kaiser26may26,0,847328.story?track=tottext mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/kaisersuspended.html May 19, 2006 Health-care execs diagnose Kaiser ills after kidney failure Communication and administrative errors that doomed Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco kidney-transplant unit have raised fears among health-care observers about broader management problems at the health-care giant and questions about the role its affiliated medical group played in the fiasco. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/05/22/story2.html May 18, 2006 Kaiser Told to Fix Problems With Kidney Patient Hotline Some
seeking answers on the transition to UC transplant programs express
frustration
By
Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writersover the poor quality of data. Originally Posted At: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kaiser18may18,0,6451428,full.story?coll=la-home-local Mirrored for Historical Purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/kaisertoldtofixproblems.html THE STATE Kaiser Halts Kidney Venture May 4, 2006 Kaiser Denied Transplants of Ideally Matched Kidneys The HMO abruptly announces that it will transfer about 2,000 transplant patients back to UC hospitals. The details are unresolved. By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers May 13, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-kaiser13may13,1,5276524.story? Mirrored for Historical Purposes At: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/may13kidneytransplant.html Kaiser
Official Apologizes
Despite patients' letters, area chief says she was unaware of problems in its transplant program. By
Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers
May 11, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kaiser11may11,0,7570127,full.story?coll=la-home-local Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/istheapologyreal.html State Steps In on Kaiser Transplants 'They
will do what patients want,' a top regulator says. Those who were on
the UC hospitals'
waiting list for kidneys may return. By
Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers
May 10, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kaiser10may10,0,6587085,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/statestepin.html May 9, 2006 U.S. Begins Kaiser Probe Officials
review kidney transplant program in which errors left many patients in
limbo.
Federal regulators launched a surprise inspection Monday of Kaiser Permanente's fledgling kidney transplant program in San Francisco after The Times documented widespread problems there. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-kaiser9may09,1,5291567.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/transplant/usprobe.html Kaiser Transplant Patients Express Their Fear and Fury With
reports of disarray added to their existing frustration, some don't
want the HMO
performing their surgeries. May 5, 2006 Kaiser Slow to Transfer Patients Before
the HMO opened its kidney transplant center, it failed to alert
regulators to the glut of crucial paperwork coming,
officials say.
Kaiser
Permanente launched its
massive kidney
transplant program in 2004 without holding basic discussions with
regulators about how to safely transfer up to 1,500 of its patients
from other programs to its San Francisco center, according
to a Times
investigation.Originally Posted at:http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-kaiser5may05,1,540717.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&track=crosspromo Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/kaiserslowtotransplant.html May 4, 2006 Kaiser Denied Transplants of Ideally Matched Kidneys The
HMO
would not authorize some patients to
receive organs from outside its new program.
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 the troubled start-up of the
giant HMO's kidney transplant program in San Francisco, a
Times
investigation has found.
The patients missed this opportunity because they were in effect stranded between two transplant programs. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-kaiser4may04,1,798354,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage Mirrored for Historial Purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/may4transplant.html May 3, 2006 State Launches Probe Of Kaiser Transplant Program Originally Posted At: http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_124013245.html CBS 5) SAN FRANCISCO State regulators confirmed Wednesday that they have launched an investigation into Kaiser Permanente's kidney transplant program after a CBS 5 investigation uncovered numerous accusations of disorganization and delays that may have affected patients' health. Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/may3kidney.html May 2, 2006 There are over 15,000 patients waiting for a kidney transplant in California and although the procedure has become almost routine, waiting for an organ is still difficult. But now, a CBS 5 investigation has uncovered serious questions about the kidney transplant program at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, leaving some patients to wonder why it's taking so long? Originally Posted at: http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_122224454.html Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/kidneytransplant May 3, 2006 Kaiser Put Kidney Patients at Risk 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 WritersOriginally Posted at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kaiser3may03,0,7877009.story?track=tottext Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/sfkidneytransplant.html February 16, 2006 Kaiser transplant exec exits after 2 months by Chris Rauber The administrative chief of Kaiser Permanente's nascent kidney transplant program in San Francisco left the job after just eight weeks http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/02/13/daily53.html?jst=b_ln_hl |