kaiserfraud ([info]corphq) wrote,
@ 2007-01-13 11:23:00
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Kaiser Blackballs Nurse for Helping Investigators
A nurse is suing Kaiser for denying her job assignments after she gave truthful testimony about patient dumping to prosecutors. It's difficult to find a lawyer who will take cases like this, so in all likelihood her case is pretty strong.

There's an easy way for Kaiser to become an organization that's better, stronger, and more serviceable to the public: stop retaliating against employees. All the droning on about "corporate culture" and "business ethics" and HR policies that promise no retaliation means NOTHING as long as Kaiser continues to in fact to retaliate. I would even argue that the very noticeable gap between Kaiser's PR-crafted messages and actions heightens the sense that employees are working in an environment where fraud is permitted, and even subtly encouraged.

Also, someone who lost their job at KPIT under dubious circumstances has been posting comments about their campaign to raise awareness of corrupt HR procedures. I hope this person will contact me with more details about the situation. If KPIT workers really are banding together to sue over how they were treated during the tumultuous HealthConnect re-org, then I want to be the first to wish them luck and offer my support.




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[info]fiona64
2007-01-14 02:46 pm UTC (link)
She didn't get just *any* attorney, either. Gloria Allred can definitely pick and choose her cases. I hope that this lady is successful. It's time that the rest of the world sees how KP shits on those who tell the truth about their managerial practices.

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[info]corphq
2007-01-14 04:46 pm UTC (link)
Here, here!!! And it's time the rest of the world realizes that this affects patient care. Fostering a culture of corruption increases chances that inconvenient medical records will mysteriously disappear before arbitration. Turnover and ill-treated employees in the health care field translate to lower knowledgeability and lackluster engagement with their jobs.

Even if you read "be passionate and excellent" affirmations by HR gurus every morning, it's difficult to keep ignoring and/or transcending that there's no rational link between doing the right thing and career success at Kaiser. And unfortunately there are undeniably, highly visible rational links between doing the right thing and being punished for it.

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Kaiser management
(Anonymous)
2007-01-25 09:21 pm UTC (link)
Kaiser has some major management/HR problems; after 2 years of working for a confrontational manager that had me working in a hostile environment, HR did nothing to help except to say I couldn't transfer out of his department. this was in IT in Pleasanton. Kaiser needs to get some real managers that are more than platitude spouters on how great things are or are going to be. My manager was proud of the fact he didn't know any of his employees as a person --- we were all things that reported to him.

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Re: Kaiser management
[info]corphq
2007-01-25 11:04 pm UTC (link)
I hear you! The only possible excuse HR might have is that they haven't been given a mandate from leadership to implement checks on abusive managers. I'm sure they've heard the outcry by now, so Kaiser deserves any hit in productivity and turnover it gets for mistreating its employees.

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Re: Kaiser management
(Anonymous)
2007-01-27 03:08 am UTC (link)
It seems to me like anyone with any kind of degree can be a manager. It's on-the-job training, so it doesn't matter how many people you ruin before becoming a 'good' manager.

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Thode to Retire
(Anonymous)
2007-01-29 05:39 pm UTC (link)
Unrelated to this thread, but there is an article about Mary Ann Thode, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals' top Northern California executive, planning to retire. I thought it was interesting because the KP spokesperson made such a clear point that this had nothing to do with Kaiser's problems over the past year. Until those comments were made, I did not even think there was a connection. Now I'm suspicious!


http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2007/01/22/daily55.html?jst=b_ln_hl

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Re: Thode to Retire
[info]corphq
2007-01-29 08:37 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I saw! I know - I have a lot to catch up on for my blog. Thode was in charge of Kaiser in Northern CA, but somehow she stayed out of the papers so no one knows about her. I agree the KP spinmeisters just call attention to how much it has to do with the kidney disaster, and Kaiser's financial problems as well.

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