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KAISER PERMANENTE TRANSPLANT HORROR STORIESDue to public interest many transplant stories that are properly listed on the news section are also provided here.
There are 13 articles of interest on this web page
Tissue Transplant Issues and Lack of Regulation within the Kaiser and for profit Permanente System
(b) The time of death must be determined by a physician or surgeonwho attends the donor at death or, if none, the physician or surgeonwho certifies the death. Neither the physician or surgeon whoattends the donor at death nor the physician or surgeon whodetermines the time of death may participate in the procedures forremoving or transplanting a part unless the document of giftdesignates a particular physician or surgeon pursuant to subdivision(d) of Section 7150.5.In the Robyn Libitsky case, the Kaiser physician in Woodland Hills, California did attempt to coerce the family into releasing for transplant cancerous tissues. No government agency in California cares.
Note to fully understand the seriousness of the following news stories: MEDICARE CAN PAY FOR DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANTS EVEN IF YOU ARE UNDER 65. Kaiser could have mentioned this to the patients. http://www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/esrdcoverage.pdf also see: http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/sum99pj/frorc.html (Kaiser has removed this magazine article) It is preserved here: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/optimalrenalcare.html and here: http://web.archive.org/web/20041101201121/http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/sum99pj/frorc.html
mirrored for historical purposes at:https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/kaiser4monthdelay.html
Several other Kaiser Permanente transplant stories linked on the listed above web page.
Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/kaiserslowtotransplant.html
The patients missed this opportunity because they were in effect stranded between two transplant programs. Mirrored for Historial Purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/may4transplant.html
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Beryl Ohlson says her battle to get a lung transplant to save her son, Erich, is like being on fire. "I'm not going to sit back and watch him die," she said this week in her 15 Atwater Circle home.
"I feel like I'm on fire. I'm doing all I can to get the lung transplant."
Complicating matters is the steroid, prednisone, and Ohlson's inability to persuade the Kaiser Permanente company to pay for surgery she says could be done at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/erickbarrette.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.https://kaiserpapers.com/news/ca/brothers.html
Kaiser rejects costly treatment for sick children 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 An Amador County couple whose three youngsters suffer from a fatal genetic disorder have lost the first round of their battle to obtain a costly treatment that could save two of the children. https://kaiserpapers.com/news/ca/reject.html
State regulators widen probe into Kaiser's ills San Francisco Business Times - November 10, 2006 by Chris Rauber
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/11/13/story6.html?b=1163394000%5E1374648 State health regulators have widened a probe of Kaiser Permanente's process for handling complaints beyond its ill-fated kidney transplant unit and into other operations of the health-care giant.
Your editorial "Kaiser fine a pittance" is on target. Kaiser's attempt to move its renal-transplant patients to its own internal and dysfunctional system is but a symptom of a more fundamental problem.https://kaiserpapers.com/drphillips/pittance.html
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.https://kaiserpapers.com/horror/may4transplant.html