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National News Stories of Interest About Kaiser Permanente
For $200.00 anyone on this planet can put out a press release to the Associated Press that will be sent all over the globe. No one seems to verify the story accuracy when this is done so for that reason alone, the Kaiser Permanente press releases are not included in this section.Former oncologist claims Kaiser Permanente pushed profits over patient care, files $7 million lawsuithttp://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/04/former_oncologist_claims_kaise.html"Corporations can be charged with crimes," Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School.
Kaiser Patient: Infection Was Ignored Due to 'Weekend' Patient ended up a quadriplegic.
WASHINGTON (CN) - A man has sued Kaiser for $5 million, alleging that he nearly died when labs showed a "significant infection" but he was not treated or even notified because it was "the weekend." The infection was in his spine and resulted in quadriplegia and complete disability, his complaint says.
October 4, 2012 - George Halvorson reported as retiring as head of Kaiser Permanente in December of 2013.Please read more of this story at Modern Healthcare at the above highlighted link.also at the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kaiser-ceo-20121005,0,5013919.story
ATTENTION: JAYANT PATEL OREGON AND AUSTRALIAN STORIES ARE LISTED ON THIS PAGE AS WELL AS ON THE OREGON/WASHINGTON PAGE BECAUSE THE JAYANT PATEL MATTER APPLIES TO EVERY STATE IN THE U.S. KAISER STORIES REGARDING SUBVERSION OF WRITTEN LAW BY KAISER AS NOT APPLYING TO THEM ALSO ARE LISTED ON THIS PAGE AS WELL. THE REASONS AGAIN ARE BECAUSE KAISER IS DOING BUSINESS IN THE SAME MANNER IN EVERY STATE THEY ARE LICENSED TO PRACTICE IN. WHY IS KAISER ALLOWED TO BE ABOVE THE LAW? Refer for recent stories on Patel - to - http://nwkaiserpapers.com/news Police ready to get Patel By Paula Doneman of The Courier-Mail http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20800481-3102,00.html November 20, 2006 11:00pm POLICE will today take the first step to extradite disgraced surgeon Jayant Patel back to Queensland to face charges of killing and maiming patients at Bundaberg Hospital. mirrored for historical purposes at: http://nwkaiserpapers.com/news/extraditepatel.html
Mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/formoney/patelrecord.html
This California story is important because if Kaiser refuses to honor and obey the law in this state they are certainly doing the same thing in every other place they are allowed to continue doing business. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/valley/la-fi-kaiser22nov22,1,4539465.story?coll=la-editions-valley State Faults Kaiser Doctors Revisiting the case of a woman whose cancer was misdiagnosed, medical regulators decide to censure five more physicians. By Debora Vrana - Times Staff Writer - November 22, 2005
Five convicted in $1.1 million fraud andmoney laundering scheme against Kaiser Permanente http://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel06/sc082206.htm SACRAMENTO: United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott, IRS Special Agent in Charge of Criminal Investigation Roger L. Wirth, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Drew Parenti announced today that HENRY M. KAISER, 62, of Piedmont, California, was ordered to serve a term of imprisonment of one year and one day for his role in a scheme to misappropriate $25 million from SureWest Communications, a publicly traded company based in Roseville, California. The crime, which occurred in 2003, resulted in a $2 million loss to SureWest. KAISER was also ordered to pay $2 million in restitution and a $25,000 fine. The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Morrison C. England. This case was investigated by the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation with assistance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
KAISER HOSPICE and EUTHANASIA PROGRAM STORIES
It's Called the "terrible" choice - Kaiser Hospice Program It's called the "terrible choice." A terminally ill patient can keep fighting a disease, often at enormous expense -- or get low-cost hospice care and accept death.http://euthanasia.kaiserpapers.com/hospfraud.html
http://euthanasia.kaiserpapers.com/kaisereuth.html
Former Kaiser Doctor Talks To ABC7 Claims Many Medical Mistakes By Debora Villalon From: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=3626588 Nov. 11 - KGO - A doctor who once worked at Kaiser Permanente in South San Francisco claims preventable medical mistakes happened too often at that hospital. He says cost-cutting moves put patients' lives in danger, and when he tried to warn Kaiser, he was fired. mirrored for public information at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/abc7.html
Wed, Nov. 09, 2005 Kaiser patient dies after getting wrong medication Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Kaiser Permanente patient died after receiving the wrong medication at one of the company's hospitals, the second patient recently reported to have died under similar circumstances at the facility, state health regulators said. from:http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13124008.htm mirrored at: https://kaiserpapers.com/californianews/avoidkaiser.html
State let Kaiser, OHSU escape oversight Malpractice claims Lax enforcement kept 18 years of cases unreported, including red flags about Dr. Jayant M. Patel Monday, November 07, 2005 STEVE WOODWARD and SUSAN GOLDSMITH The Oregonian http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2008/06/_australia_ready_to_charge.html#2 and http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/malpractice/
From Money Magazine - January 2007
It took 13 doctor visits and several misdiagnoses before Hillarie Levy's daughter, Robyn Libitsky was finally diagnosed accurately................
..........Levy's advice for anyone fighting the health care system? - Read more at:
Mirrored: https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/moneymagazine.html Kaiser has faced at least 20 wrongful death suits in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1990. California state officials are investigating four deaths in a Richmond hospital. Texas Attorney General Dan Morales says the state has ''sufficient grounds'' to revoke Kaiser's license. Issues include quality-of-care concerns and $71 million in losses...
October 31, 2005 Los Angeles Attorney - B. Casey Yim, of the law firm Murchison and Cumming, LLP accuses Los Angeles Times reporter of misquoting him. Was the intent of Mr.Yim's writing to cast a shadow on the veracity of the entire article or is he sincere? See: https://kaiserpapers.com/yim.html in the October 23, 2005 - How Many Doctors Should Be Blamed? Originally from: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newkaiser23oct23,0,1538660,print.story?coll=la-home-business mirrored at for public information historical purposes: https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/hillarieandrobyn.html Related story at: http://www.simivalleyacorn.com/news/2005/1028/Community/031.html
and https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/robynl.html
From The Simi Valley Acorn http://www.simivalleyacorn.com/news/2005/1028/Community/031.html and https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/acorn.html October 28, 2005 - Simi Valley woman wants daughter’s doctors publicly named for misdiagnoses By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
October 23, 2005 - How Many Doctors Should Be Blamed? Originally from: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newkaiser23oct23,0,1538660,print.story?coll=la-home-business mirrored at for public information historical purposes: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/hillarieandrobyn.html A mother whose daughter died after Kaiser physicians missed her cancer is fighting to change a law that let the HMO report only one of the practitioners to the state. By Debora Vrana Times Staff Writer
What Ails Kaiser Kaiser has faced at least 20 wrongful death suits in the Dallas-Fort Worth What Ails Kaiser Kaiser has faced at least 20 wrongful death suits in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1990. California state officials are investigating four deaths in a Richmond hospital. Texas Attorney General Dan Morales says the state has ''sufficient grounds'' to revoke Kaiser's license. Issues include quality-of-care concerns and $71 million in losses...
Texas Attorney General Dan Morales says the state has ''sufficient grounds'' to revoke Kaiser's license. Issues include quality-of-care concerns and $71 million in losses...
Medical arbitration process can be costly Harvey Frey, a retired radiation oncologist in California, doesn't buy that. A patients' advocate, Frey is spearheading a proposed ballot initiative -- The Voluntary Health Plan Arbitration Act of 2004 -- that would give Californians a choice of how to resolve future health-care disputes.
Eugene Guevara- Dr. Reynaldo Hernandez, who works in the hospital's urology department, was in stable condition at the hospital Sunday after being shot three times, said Kaiser Permanente spokeswoman Reyna del Haro.
THE STATE Kaiser Halts Kidney Venture 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 Mirrored for Historical Purposes At: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/transplant/may13kidneytransplant.html
Informational links and news stories on Kaiser Permanente Hospital SARS Outbreaks
The second Kaiser Family Foundation survey of Health Care in South Africa
HMO's Prescription for Change: Flexibility
To get top care, get pushy - If your health plan won't send you to a leading hospital, seek allies.
Kaiser Permanente Child Experiment NOTICE OF PENDING CIVIL ACTION OVER LOS ANGELES COUNTY KAISER PERMANENTE MEASLES VACCINE TRIAL
Is Kaiser Senior Advantage Really the Best for You?
Eleven Unethical Managed Care Practices Every Patient Should Know About (With emphasis on mental health care) Please copy and distribute this document widely.
Clinical Evidence: Creation, Assessment, and Implementation
Emerging Bone Problems In HIV-Infected Patients Dan has been living through a nightmare of bone failure and hip replacement surgery with a reluctant HMO (Kaiser), and inexperienced doctors.
An Undisciplined Doctor Why Wasn't He Stopped Sooner? - Dr. Michael McEnany now former chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
A California Whistle Blower brought this to the Medical Board who finally conducted an investigation. Because of Kaiser's cover up to protect their reputation patient's continued to be at risk. This case continues to show that the medical establishment will blindly trust the word of a fellow doctor over the word of other witnesses, and that the medical profession cannot adequately police itself."
Jan 5, 2006 5:50 pm US/Pacific Kaiser South Bay Patients' Information Stolen Another inspiring tale of how secure the Kaiser patient information is. Letters carrying identity theft warnings have been sent to 25,000 patients who have been treated at Kaiser Permanente’s South Bay Medical Center, after two contract employees were arrested on suspicion of stealing their personal information.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_005205257.html https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/kpsbinfo.html
Note: The following news story was a Kaiser planted story. It was done as a PR move to cover up/deflect from their own HIPAA violation and their need to blame someone else. The woman in the article really is innocent of this breach of patient information but her name has been smeared by Kaiser anyway. The truth is the information had been online for years and Kaiser never cared about it before it was brought to the attention of HIPAA. I have first hand knowledge of this entire thing and that is why I am openly writing this now. It was wrong, it was unfair and the actions taken by Kaiser were totally uncalled for. A good investigative reporter should be covering this story and shedding bright light on the entire matter.
Kaiser Permanente warns of patient info breach OAKLAND, Calif. Kaiser Permanente is warning 140 Northern Californian residents that a disgruntled former employee has posted confidential information about them on her Internet site.
Nonprofit health council sues Kaiser over medical disclosures
The California Consumer Health Care Council has sued the Kaiser Foundation over what it says is inappropriate disclosure of private medical records.
The council contends that when Kaiser learns of a suit or potential suit by a patient, its legal department opens and studies that patient's private medical records without notifying the patient. This alleged review by Kaiser's legal department is inappropriate, said the council, because Kaiser's legal employees have no role in the patient's health care.
"If a patient has a claim against Kaiser for negligently cutting off a little finger, why should a clerk in Kaiser's legal department be able to review the patient's entire medical file, which might include information on unrelated sexual, psychiatric or personal problems ...?" asked Martin Blake, one of the lawyers who filed the suit in Alameda County Superior Court for the council on Monday.
John Metz, the chairman of the council, said that Kaiser has put its own legal interests above the protection of its patients' privacy. "It is just wrong," he said in a statement
First Incidence of Kaiser E-Mails going astray - 2000 Missing records at cancer institute follow Kaiser glitch Wire Services August 11, 2000 Health Internet Ethics Electronic Privacy Information Center Kaiser Permanente Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston. Confidential personal information, including names and social security numbers, may have been stolen from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's electronic administrative records system, according to a hospital spokesman.
13 things your health insurer doesn't want you to know
Kaiser to Offer Savings Accounts For Lower-Cost Health Coverage By RHONDA L. RUNDLE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - November 15, 2004; Page B6 Also at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/hsa.html I think that their non profit status and advertising on how much they care is a fraud because of the following statement: ...says Dr. Southam: "If all we offer at Kaiser is comprehensive coverage, then all of the sick people go to Kaiser and everyone else goes to the other plans." Colorado, Georgia and the Northwest is the main testing ground for Kaiser patients. Probably because they are very small population areas for Kaiser and it is easier to see what the public will and will not be suckered into. Beware people in these areas. As with other Kaiser programs this may not turn out to be exactly what the rest of the country is calling an HSA.
When Kaiser Permanente began a program to dispose of its obsolete computer equipment two and a half years ago, it was motivated more by cost concerns than by the desire to properly dispose of products with potentially toxic content. http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/desktops/story/0,10801,89552,00.html
The above article is from 1998. If the company needed to cook the books to get the public to invest in their bonds then in my opinion that is a very bad investment. If they weren't truthful to the investor then why would anyone want to deal with them anytime in the future.
Considering how many patients died from the Vioxx experiment which was conducted on the public and how long it took for Kaiser or anyone to come out with the information about how deadly that medication is I wonder why the Department of Defense has hired Kaiser to study the heart complications for the smallpox vaccination which is mandatorily given to all military personnel, including reservists.All of which is paid for by the Centers for Disease Control I would think that they want information that would be useful and not something hidden from people that actually need to know how to help our servicemen. See page 11 of online report.
The HMO's campaign used the slogan ``you're in the hands of doctors.'' But the newspaper's review of documents, including e-mails and notes of private meetings, reveals Kaiser encouraged its doctors in Northern California to make themselves as unavailable as possible to their patients in order to lower patient demand and costs.
Kaiser and it's Obscene Profits # In 1994, the top 21 HMOs, hospital chains, and long-term care providers made over $3 billion profits (LA Times, 5-4-95) and California's six biggest HMOs made $1.13 billion. (SF Examiner, 3-10-96) Northern California Kaiser alone made over $813 million. (SF Chronicle, 2-12-96)
# Kaiser’s 1993 profits were so high that dozens of pages of memos were exchanged between high-level administrators discussing how to explain these profits to its workers whose jobs were being cut, and to its patients whose hospitals were being closed. One sample: "As much as possible, present 1993 financial results in context so that they don’t conflict with current budget/layoff imperatives." (California Nurses Association)
HMOs are complaining that Kaiser deliberately undercut rivals' prices to grab market share, then found itself unable to make money on the new business. California Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro claimed that Kaiser has diverted funds from patient care to pay for advertising and marketing, management consultants and mergers and acquisitions "for the sole purpose of dominating the HMO market." (LA Times, 2-14-98)
In June, 1998, Kaiser announced an alliance with AvMed, Florida's largest non-profit, with 400,000 members. (CNA communication) What is important is not only the size and pace of the acquisitions, but also that they were non-profit, with a tradition of membership service and/or involvement. Kaiser wants a patient base more involved with its HMO, more likely to identify with it, and more willing to accept its cuts.
Bayer was coached in the scheme by a purchasing manager from Kaiser Permanente Bayer Agrees to Pay U.S. $257 Million in Drug Fraud
Playing the HMO Game In June, Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO with the imperial name, announced that it had decided not to cover the cost of the $10 erection pill for its 9 million members. Just three weeks later, the little pill had become a symbol of one of the nation's hottest political issues: what HMOs do and don't pay for
CORPORATE HEALTH CARE This is a web site from Australia that is devoted to exploring the privatisation and corporatisation of health care.
They examine the oldest health and aged care marketplace in the world - the USA. They show quite clearly that its has failed and that the victims of the disturbing systems which resulted are US citizens. I suggest that you use your Google Bar on this page and type in Kaiser and then hit the Search Site bar. This site has documented years and years of Kaiser abuse on the citizens of this country and presented, with a clear eye, a quite often different perspective of the situation than we have here.
How Kaiser's Cost Slashing Has Nicked It's Business In recent months, state and federal authorities have launched investigations into Kaiser practices in Texas and California. The probes examine issues ranging from inadequate staffing at hospitals to poor emergency-care service and, in Texas, a high number of wrongful-death suits.While the case was not successful, what was discovered during the investigation and scandal, was the role of Kaiser's policies. Kaiser's policies dictated that the doctors were in danger of losing their year-end bonuses for cost-cutting if they had kept him alive! Printed in the American Almanac, January, 2000.
Kaiser: Profit up, members are flat By Nicholas Yulico, BUSINESS WRITER Kaiser Permanente's profits increased 37 percent in the first half of this year, yet national membership remained flat at about 8.2 million, the company said Friday. Also at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/poof.html
Prozac May Be Hazardous to Your Health Insurance - by Vicki Lankarge If you've had even a mild bout of depression, you may find buying an individual health insurance policy a challenge. Here's how to succeed in the process.
Kaiser squeezes out their own doctors that do not get with the cost saving program. How Kaiser nails a doctor whistleblower or just someone that cares for the patients more than the doctor stockholders. Or even worse, by Kaiser standards, someone that would dare to invest in the competition. Yes this article tells about the doctor stockholders, the ones that want to cut patient costs so they can make more money. ...doctors' rights to due process are violated from the get-go at Kaiser because the chief of staff -- the person took disciplinary action against the doctor in this case -- is the person who selects the panel that reviews the matter.Furthermore, senior doctors at Kaiser are shareholders in a medical group that has an exclusive contract to work at Kaiser hospitals, posing an inherent conflict of interest... "Now, you have huge health systems with corporate employees and the system is being used to get rid of troublesome doctors," he said. Harassment or substandard care - https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/kaisersqueezeoutdocs.html
Septuagenarians spend time, money on specialists
Image isn't Kaiser's only problem The Rocky Mountain News reported Aug. 3 that Kaiser Permanente's research shows its patients think the health maintenance organization is a huge, bureaucratic system in which patients don't have a personal physician and get mediocre care ("Kaiser launches ads to help ailing image").
On August 13, 2004 the San Francisco Business Journal printed a retraction to a story they covered on The Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee that was untrue.It is as follows:
The Aug 13th edition of SF Business Times printed the following under "Corrections&Amplifications" on the bottom of page six: "The Aug 6-12 "Talk of the Town" column erroneously referred to "hacking" in describing the acquisition of Kaiser Permanente marketing materials by the Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee, a critic of the healthcare company. The documents were retrieved using a publicly accessible Kaiser website, though the group says it discovered a "security hole" on that site. Kaiser says its computer security was not breached."
For unknown reasons, people had written letters to this paper making claims that we had hacked (committed an illegal act) into the Kaiser Permanente web site. The people doing this signed my name, Vickie Travis to their letters. Well, I didn't write any letters to this newspaper nor did myself or any member of our organization do anything illegal. What is presented here is a letter to the paper from myself and Sharon Rushford, our Board Secretary correcting their erroneous information. :http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2004/08/16/editorial5.html
Kaiser Branding of America Stories
Response from Dr. Charles Phillips on the December 2004 MSNBC Kaiser paid advertisement on a newsprogram "Kaiser bucks the HMO trend" -https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/msnbcsellout.html - To story: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/msnbcsellout.html
December 22, 2004 - The anniversary of passing for my father-in-law, Everett Earl Travis, who was a war hero and who was wounded at The Battle of the Bulge and who did teach us all that we do not ever disgrace our country if we expect to look at ourselves in a mirror again without seeing shame. The following web page is for him as he is the inspiration. https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/vickiestatement.html We believe that Kaiser and The-For-Profit Permanente in order to embed (Kaiser's word not ours) themselves in the minds of the American Public have had planted at MSNBC (which is heavily financed by the pharmaceutical industry) during their prime time news ... If our own President's (G.W. Bush) state (Texas) didn't want them around I don't think that the rest of the country does either.
PATIENT DUMPING STORIES BY THE KAISER PERMANENTE SYSTEM
Alleged Skid Row Dumping Is Captured on Videotape A patient released from a Kaiser hospital is shown wandering outside a downtown L.A. rescue mission.By Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writer March 23, 2006 entire story at: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-dumping23mar23,1,1193808.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california Also view the video of this patient dumping on the LA Times web page listed above. Highlights: The mission has been sending tapes and written logs of alleged dumping incidents to the Los Angeles city attorney's office.
Reyes of Gardena was released Monday after being a patient at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center for three days, the hospital said. Capt. Andrew Smith of the LAPD's Central Division said that he believes the taxi took Reyes to skid row against her will.
Reyes said in an interview that she could not remember what happened when she left the hospital or how she got to skid row.
City Councilwoman Jan Perry, who showed reporters the video at a news conference, called the dumping of the woman "egregious."
mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/dumpedreyes.html
Video Said to Capture Skid Row Dumping From: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-032206dump_lat,0,5616475.story?coll=la-home-headlines By Cara Mia DiMassa Times Staff Writer - March 22, 2006 Authorities released a videotape this afternoon of what they say is the dumping of a 63-year-old woman on the streets of skid row. .....LAPD Capt. Andrew Smith said he believes the taxi took the woman, a 63-year-old Gardena resident, downtown against her will after she was discharged from Kaiser Permanente Bellflower on Monday....In addition, LAPD officials have said that they often see people with hospital wristbands on skid row, often appearing ill and sometimes wearing colostomy bags. Mirrored at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/skidrow.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.
Kaiser Nurse/Physician Bonus for doing less
Kaiser Seeking to Pay Bonuses to Nurses Who Help Cut Costs; Health care: The move is believed to be an industry first. Critics argue that such incentives create a conflict of interest.; DAVID R. OLMOS - Los Angeles Times - Dec. 22, 1995
In what is believed to be the first effort of its kind, the giant Kaiser Foundation Health Plan is seeking to pay bonuses to nurses who help move patients out of hospitals faster and cut other medical costs.
Critics of such incentives--widely offered to doctors--say they create a conflict of interest by encouraging medical providers to skimp on care so they can make more money. Because they are paid less than doctors, nurses may be particularly vulnerable to such conflicts, critics add.
Kaiser Permanente has dropped a controversial bonus plan that rewarded physicians in Southern California for keeping hospital and drug costs down.
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Staff Writer for the SF Chronicle December 20, 1995
The giant Oakland-based HMO denied the move was intended to placate critics of the bonus plan, who had said the system essentially rewarded doctors for rationing care. Instead, officials said the budgetary goals were met for 1995 -- so the incentives were not necessary for 1996.
https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/cutbackenough.htmlKaiser has aches, pains going digital Patients' welfare is at stake in the electronic effort, experts say. By Daniel Costello, Times Staff Writer February 15, 2007 Kaiser Permanente's $4-billion effort to computerize the medical records of its 8.6 million members has encountered repeated technical problems, leading to potentially dangerous incidents such as patients listed in the wrong beds, according to Kaiser documents and current and former employees. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-kaiser15feb15,1,3764666,full.story?coll=la- headlines-frontpage mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/achydigital.html
APPARENT PATIENT BATTERY STORIES
Brazilian volunteer help Flórida’s patients
Jupirena Stein from Minas Gerais, Brasil, considers herself a “patient advocate.”
38 years ago, Jupirena Stein, 61 years old, left the green mountains of Diamantina Brasil, for the sunny beach of Santa Monica, California.
In Santa Monica, she re-met an American gentleman who she had known 4 years before at her relatives home in Minas Gerais.
Then they got married and the United States became her second country.
However, in 1999, her life suffered a great upset after she submitted to an elective surgery to remove a swollen parotid gland on her right neck. A trivial type of surgery nowadays.
Jupirena anticipated having a small band-aid patch on her neck after surgery.
However, she woke up hours later bound from the shoulder to the head and asked while frightened:
What happened?
Her surgeon told her that all went well but that at one point of the surgery, her blood was squirting out of her neck.
Many weeks later her ENT told her she had been diagnosed with cancer but should not worry about it because all cancer cells had been removed. Sadly, she had 6 weeks of needless radiation treatment.
Read more from the Brazilian News Paper in both Portugese and English at: https://kaiserpapers.com/nationalnews/battery.html
October 19, 2007 - Dr. Charles Phillips provides additional information on Dr. Hamid Safari of Fresno, California , Kaiser Permanente. http://drphillips.kaiserpapers.info/hamid-safari
Cross Referenced with: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kpchildrenstories.html http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/noonewouldlisten.html original source - http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-kaiser16oct16,0,684129,full.story?coll=la- tot-topstories related story - The United States has a sharply higher rate of women dying during or just after pregnancy than European countries, even some relatively poor countries such as Macedonia and Bosnia, according to the first estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide. - http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1339620220071013?sp=true Mirrored for Historical Purposes at: http://nationalnews.kaiserpapers.info/materialdeathrate.html Kaiser Responds to the above article at: http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/kpresponds/2007-10-15.html and we have mirrored the response for historical purposes with brief commentary at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/kaiserresponds.html
WhistleblowersChris Rauber Coverage with the SF Business Times 06/26/2012
Kaiser Lobbying for the National Health Care Program
APPARENT PATIENT BATTERY STORIES
Medical Error Stories Malpractice and Negligent Medical Care Stories
Medical Records and Patient Confidentiality Stories
Non-Profit Status and other Financial Stories including rate increases
Kaiser Computer and Computer Security Problems Criminal Employee Kaiser Stories
Kaiser Nurse/Physician Bonus for doing less
Kaiser Hospice and Euthanasia Program Stories
Justin Deal on Kaiser Computers
Branding of America Stories Arbitration Stories
Kaiser Pharmacy Problem Stories
Childbirth and Maternal Survival Issues