In
Copyright Since September 11,
2000
This web site is in no manner affiliated with any Kaiser entity and the for profit Permanente Permission is granted to mirror this web site - Patient Stories | Kaiser Hospice News Articles | Documentation | Lawsuits | KaiserPapers Opinions | We want to be as fair as possible about the Kaiser Hospice program. There are some families that are quite happy to get rid of their loved ones and have someone else assume the responsibility for the medical care. There are also some patients that knowingly enter the program with the desire to get it over with, and they do, generally within a week. There are also patients and their families that get service exactly as they expect and they report a decent experience. Many patients are enrolled into the program because they are promised their medicine or medical supplies will then be paid for. It often does not work out that way. Many patients are not any where terminal. Some have dementias of some sort and that condition is now allowed by our government in the hospice program. Unfortuantely, many people report that the care provided by Kaiser is nothing similar to what Kaiser has promiseid and because no one really regulates that program unless formal complaints are made, they get away with it.
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