November 21st, 2014
Sal Rosselli’s statement on Kaiser’s mental health care crisis
Kaiser Permanente is failing its mental health patients. Kaiser simply does not staff its mental health services with enough psychologists, therapists, and social workers to handle the caseload. And that caseload is growing rapidly under the Affordable Care Act and the Medi-Cal carve-in. Understaffing has forced patients to endure lengthy, illegal waits for appointments, and […]
November 18th, 2014
Andy Weisskoff’s new blog investigates possible Medicare fraud at Kaiser
I’m halfway through my second round of blogging for 90daystochange.com. Now that I no longer work for Kaiser, it’s both easier and trickier to hold the monolithic HMO accountable for how poorly they treat people with mental illness. It’s easier because I’m not experiencing the everyday tension that came from implementing tier after tier of confrontation. […]
November 17th, 2014
Kaiser Permanente’s California mental health clinicians will hold press conference November 20
Psychologists, therapists, and social workers will call on Kaiser to immediately take action to fix its failing mental health services and will announce the results of a statewide strike authorization vote Kaiser found guilty of illegal delays and denials of care, falsifying records, violating mental health parity laws EMERYVILLE —Kaiser Permanente’s 2,500 California mental health clinicians — […]
November 11th, 2014
NUHW members support CNA-NNU Ebola strike
NUHW IBHS members walked picket lines with CNA-NNU members at Kaiser facilities throughout Northern California Tuesday, November 11, in support of the nurses’ strike over concerns about Ebola and patient and worker safety. The slideshow below features photographs from Kaiser Santa Rosa, Kaiser San Rafael, Kaiser Walnut Creek, and Kaiser Oakland. [slideshow_deploy id=’5747′]
November 8th, 2014
Record profits for Kaiser: 40% increase over last year
Once again, Kaiser Permanente’s profits are setting records. Today the HMO announced third quarter profits of $997 million and year-to-date profits of $3.1 billion, up 40% from last year’s record of $2.2 billion. Kaiser’s 2014 profit margin of 7.3% is a significant increase over last year’s record of 5.1%. Times aren’t looking so turbulent, are […]