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Kaiser Permanente and the September 2001 Anthrax death
1. The hospital which saw one of the two postal worker in ER Saturday and sent him home with the diagnosis of "flu" later to readmit today at 5:45 am too late to save (according to the New York Times today - page B6) is called Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Suburban Prince Georges County. (Material was written as events took place)2. Hospitals Kaiser uses in Maryland include:
"Maryland Civista Medical Center 701 E. Charles St. La Plata, MD 20646 (301) 870-3061
Doctors Community Hospital 8118 Good Luck Road Lanham, MD 20706 (301) 552-8118
Holy Cross Hospital 1500 Forest Glen Road Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 905-0018
Laurel Regional Hospital 7300 Van Dusen Road Laurel, MD 20707 (301) 725-4300
Montgomery General Hospital 18101 Prince Philip Drive Olney, MD 20832 (301) 774-8882
Prince George's Hospital Center 3001 Hospital Drive Cheverly, MD 20785 (301) 618-2000
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital 9901 Medical Center Drive Rockville, MD 20850 (301) 279-6000
Southern Maryland Hospital 7503 Suratts Road Clinton, MD 20735 (301) 868-8000
Suburban Hospital 8600 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 530-3100
Washington Adventist Hospital 7600 Carroll Ave. Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301) 891-7600"
all per KP website - go to Washington, D.C. - hospitals for Select Plan.
3. Kaiser encourages withholding antibiotics for upper respiratory infections since the "evidence" they like suggests that it might only be of slight help.
4. One would wonder if the ER doc took a history that this was a postal worker in the DC area who "collapsed in Church" on the way in to the ER Saturday - does that sound like the flu?
I believe the ER doc was not a direct contract Kaiser doc but indirect influences of "Best Practices" downsizing HMO style would be interesting to know.
Chuck Phillips, MD