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Kaiser Heart Patient Horror Stories Jan 2015 - Family Blames Kaiser for Cardiac Death
HEART ATTACK PATIENT SUES KAISER - Caroll Hogan
Oct 4,2013 Susan Kasperski Pacemakers at Kaiser Fontana
2013 Susan Kasperski
2007 - 2011 Susan Kasperski
2005
Grant High player's mother files wrongful death suit Eddie Barnett Jr.
2004
2002 Kaiser Sunset
1997 Kaiser agreed to pay $5.35 million
November 20, 1996 Raymond Erickson
1995 Zahman Ahmed Jan 2015 - Family Blames Kaiser for Cardiac Death - By BARBARA WALLACE http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/01/05/family-blames-kaiser-for-cardiac-death.htm
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CN) - A Kaiser cardiac patient died because doctors failed to act when he stopped urinating, his family claims in court. Sylvia Mack, widow of Anthony Mack, sued Kaiser and two of its doctors on Dec. 17 in Superior Court, alleging medical malpractice and wrongful death.
An attorney for the mother of Eddie Barnett Jr., the Grant basketball player who died after collapsing during a game at Madison on Feb. 23, 2005, has filed a wrongful death suit against the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Oregon Health & Science University. https://kaiserpapers.com/legalstuff/lawsuits/oregon/eddie-barnett.html
A woman who suffered a massive heart attack and permanent injury filed a $2.2 million lawsuit Wednesday against Kaiser Permanente and several others, including a Kaiser doctor, claiming medical negligence.
In the lawsuit, Caroll Hogan said that on July 28, 1997, she received medical advice and treatment from Dr . Rachot Vacharothone at Kaiser's Vancouver Medical Office. https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/caroll-hogan.html
2007 - The Susan Kasperski Story
Susan Kasperski is a long time Southern California Kaiser Permanente patient. She has prepared a chronology of negative events that she had to endure while THRIVING in the hands of Kaiser. Susan has kept a complete diary over the years. This is a pretty good example of assembly line medicine in practice and shows just how bad the patient experience is once an illness or disease needs treatment and the patient has no other options.
For financial reasons Susan has been unable to drop Kaiser and obtain medical insurance elsewhere she states. Susan's story is not uncommon. It is very sad that any patient in this country should be forced to endure such unprofessional treatment.
Please read her story at:
The Charlene Dyson Story In May 2004 I went to the Dr. for my blood pressure, asthma and sinuses. Dr. took my pressure and saw it was high. I honestly begged her for a breathing treatment as I have been through this all my life so I know what will get it down. ... Two days later I had a stroke.( in emergency untreated for over 2hrs.)
https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/dyson.html
Lawyers for the family of Ronald Henderson alleged that a plan by Kaiser Permanente's North Texas HMO to cut hospital expenses by 45 percent, plus an HMO official's speech that stressed putting ``the bottom line'' first, led to the 56-year-old man's death.
Just days before her death, Mom had experienced chest pains severe enough that she felt the need for emergency medical treatment; she'd experienced the pain intermittently for one year, though medical tests indicated esophageal spasms were the culprit.
Lawyers for the family of Ronald Henderson alleged that a plan by Kaiser Permanente's North Texas HMO to cut hospital expenses by 45 percent, plus an HMO official's speech that stressed putting ``the bottom line'' first, led to the 56-year-old man's death. The HMO agreed to the settlement Tuesday after a test jury in a novel nonbinding minitrial said it would have awarded the family more than 10 times that amount if the case had gone to an actual trial. https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/heart/tex2116.html
Nation’s Wealthiest HMO Leaves Jury Outraged
Feb. 13, 1998
FORREST SAWYER It begins with a malpractice lawsuit in Texas, a family claiming the negligence of the country’s largest HMO, Kaiser Permanente, left their loved one dead.During the trial, startling evidence emerged, an internal speech by a Kaiser administrator. The administrator painted a picture of a company that appeared willing to risk placing profit above patient welfare. Together with the rest of the evidence, the speech stunned jurors and helped drive Kaiser to settle the lawsuit for millions.
At the heart of all this, the public’s growing fear of health maintenance organizations. Kaiser Permanente has itself endured dozens of lawsuits and three blistering government investigations while across the country HMOs are losing money and consumer confidence and facing demands for tough new legislation, all this at the same time that more people than ever before are provided medical coverage by HMOs. What’s gone wrong with a system intended to help contain the boiling growth in the cost of health care?
......VALERI WILLIAMS (VO) Dr John Vogt is that official. He’s an associate medical director at Kaiser Permanente in Texas. Little did Vogt know that when he gave that speech to an HMO industry conference in 1995, that it would become such a damaging piece of evidence. The topic? Cutting costs. And these are some of his more controversial remarks. “The first thing that ever comes out of a Kaiser CEO now is what’s the bottom line,” and, “ ... any time you have to balance the budget, how do you do it? You cut utilization, drop referral rates, drop your hospitalization. The budget balances. We all go home ... “ And Vogt continued. At one point he refers to Kaiser’s urgent care centers or UCCs. “We basically said to the UCC doctors if you value your job, you won’t say anything about hospitalization. All you’ll say is I think you need further evaluation and Dr Schmoe is going to come in and talk with you.