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		<title>Kaiser Permanente Notice of Privacy Practices</title>
		<link>http://transplants.kaiserpapers.info/archives/161</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are being considered for a transplant, we will share your PHI with our Kaiser Permanente National Transplant Network. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mom fights insurance firm to get lung transplant for son August 24, 1990</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Transplant Horror Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Kaiser rejects costly treatment for sick children June 8, 2002</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Bennett Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

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		<title>Kaiser Gift Stirs Hope for 2 Ill Brothers   September 5, 2002</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>State regulators widen probe into Kaiser&#8217;s ills November 10, 2006</title>
		<link>http://transplants.kaiserpapers.info/archives/144</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[DMHC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Kidney Transplant Failures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Complaints often go to people who have no clout," Billingsley added, "and then you haven't addressed anything." In this case, the kidney program (is being) closed down," she said, "so if they correct the way that particular program handles grievances, that's not going to solve the problem.
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		<title>Editorial on Kaiser on target by Charles Phillips Aug 19, 2006</title>
		<link>http://transplants.kaiserpapers.info/archives/141</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mirrored here for historical purposes from: http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/opinion/15312879.htm
Posted on Sat, Aug. 19, 2006
 


Editorial on Kaiser on target
 
By Charles Phillips
Your editorial &#8220;Kaiser fine a pittance&#8221; is on target. Kaiser&#8217;s attempt to move its renal-transplant patients to its own internal and dysfunctional system is but a symptom of a more fundamental problem.
Kaiser is really a for-profit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaiser Denied Transplants of Ideally Matched Kidneys May 4, 2006</title>
		<link>http://transplants.kaiserpapers.info/archives/138</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally Posted at: 
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-kaiser4may04,1,798354,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage
Kaiser Denied Transplants of Ideally Matched Kidneys
The HMO would not authorize some patients to receive organs from outside its new program.
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writers
May 4, 2006 
 
Twenty-five Kaiser Permanente patients in Northern California were denied the chance for new kidneys that were nearly perfectly matched to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Kaiser Kidney Transplant Program Ethical? May 8, 2006</title>
		<link>http://transplants.kaiserpapers.info/archives/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Kidney Transplant Failures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Ben-Aris seem like a carefree family, but they bear a heavy burden. Michaella Ben Ari undergoes painful dialysis three times a week as she waits for a life-saving kidney transplant.]]></description>
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		<title>Transfer of Kaiser&#8217;s Kidney Patients Hits Major Delay August 4, 2006</title>
		<link>http://transplants.kaiserpapers.info/archives/132</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California HMO regulators said this week that it will take months longer than expected to transfer about 2,000 patients out of Kaiser Permanente's troubled kidney transplant center in San Francisco, prolonging patients' dependence on a program that has been plagued by scandal.]]></description>
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		<title>Kaiser to Pay Record $2-Million Fine for Kidney Program August 10, 2006</title>
		<link>http://transplants.kaiserpapers.info/archives/130</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay a $2-million fine after state HMO regulators found that its Northern California kidney transplant program imperiled hundreds of patients, in some cases delaying critical surgeries or losing track of patients altogether, four people familiar with the deal said. ]]></description>
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