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INDEXINFORMATION - ARTICLES AND VIDEOS OF INTEREST
Dina Padilla VOICES,INC.B.E.S.T., CA Chapter
Battered Employee Support Team
Dina Padilla may be contacted at: 
dinapadilla@comcast.net
or
dinapadilla@kaiserpapers.info
Dina Padilla - Former Kaiser
Permanente Employee and Union
Steward And

April Gottman
April and Dina may be contacted by those requesting and in some cases are able to assist employees of Kaiser Permanente who are undergoing difficulties.

Note from Dina and Many Employee/Patient
Stories



SCIF - State Compensation WhistleBlower Documents
Coorespondence between a claims adjuster and his superiors. - Sent to the USDOJ and the HHSOIG.
1.Tremendous cost savings to state of california -  proposal for heart patients

2.Communication from Gail Drzewieckl Asst. Claims Manager -

3. Communication from Marie Tillman C.M.

4. Continuation from Marie Tillman Claims Manager
sugggested monitoring by gym exercise because home exercise cannot be monitored.

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11/07/07
November letter to The State of California


2-25-2007
A letter from Dina to The California Bar


2007
A letter from Dina to All Elected
Officials!


Is the DWC going to apologize
any time soon for their conduct?
See:  
http://workcomp.kaiserpapers.info/
whatsthedeal.html
***Administrative Director Carrie Nevans of the DWC has publicly made claims that injured employees "hijacked" a public meeting.  
You read the transcript of the meeting and then think about if this was really a
"hijacking" or a responsible group of individuals participating in a public meeting.  

The inappropriate, insulting and demeaning choice of words of an unprofessional nature should never be used by government officials.  


Fall 2003
An Open Letter to Kaiser -
The Journal of History


Dina Padilla/Kaiser - We were
all Patients!

A chronicle of events that took place while
in the employ of Kaiser and the for profit
Permanente.  Warning!!!!!  
This is eye
opening.

ALMOSTBROKEN.COM and
 www.mystatefundstory.com

CHECK THIS OUT!: It is more dangerous to your health to get injured on the job then you can imagine. Come and join us in exposing the fraud and
corruption.

Title: Thomas Fleishman.,  
By: James, Philip N.,
Information Systems Management,
10580530, Fall91, Vol. 8, Issue 4


Comment from Dina regarding the above
article:

"The employees that care go out the door
while the ones who don't, who dole out
kaiser kare, get a big  fat paycheck."
Dina Padilla

Questionable conduct on Kaiser's part against disabled employee Joseph Pardi.

My story - working for Kaiser Permanente, Getting injured by Paul D. Stutrud

Astraea Kelly - Kaiser Permanente Employee Victim of SARS

LARRY T. WIGGINS v. Record No. 1542-95-4
Workers' Compensation Commission granting an application filed by ... waived for any actions brought under the Workers' Compensation ...
legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/wiggins.html


Kelly Quinlan - Kaiser Employee and Patient Victim
... Unpaid Medical Leave of Absence, a fraudulent doctor's note from a doctor that does not even exist, and a fraudulent Workers' Compensation Claim. ...

Case No. OAK 271713

This is a case of legal harrassement of an injured employee by the Permanente Medical Group.  

Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
Kaiser Foundations Hospitals failed a random audit in 2001.


Dragomir-Tremoureux v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. (BPD)(33 CWCR 302):

Applicant sustained an injury to her arms on 7-24-98 and a CT ending 10-30-2000 while working for Kaiser.


U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit  Files 3/21/01 OWENS V KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC.

VERMONT

On September 10, 1999, the Claimant picked up a stack of charts, held them against her body and walked towards the chart cart.  When she reached the cart, she lifted the charts from approximately her waist height to approximately her chest height and then felt a pull in her neck.  She finished work that day despite the neck discomfort.

At the hearing, on cross-examination, Claimant stated that she did not twist her body when she lifted the files.

The next day the Claimant spoke with a nurse at Kaiser Permanente regarding her pain, and the nurse gave her Advil.

Kaiser was ordered to continue paying the claim.






How Institutions Work -
Excerpt from Pulling Your Own
Strings
by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
.


Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions
People related to Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions:



Security Officers Need Respect!
April, 2007
Inter-Con Security Officers at Kaiser
Crisis At Kaiser
Security Officers Need Sick days!
Injured On The Job host Steve Zeltzer & guest Dina Padilla sit down with Dr. Chuck Phillips, the Kaiserologist and find out the real truth about the Kaiser Permanente Medical Plan; for profit or non-profit?
http://www.ciaw.org/streamingmedia.html

Some Kaiser victims tell their horror stories while picketing the Morse Avenue Kaiser facility in Sacramento, CA. One of them is a real heartbreaker. Listen closely and carefully, because it can happen to you as it happened to others.
http://www.ciaw.org/streamingmedia.html

On February 11th of 2004, California Injured Workers Coalition members Dina Padilla and Scott Hayes testified before Senator Richard Alarcon's Labor and Industrial Relations Committee to relate some of the atrocities that injured workers are experiencing.
http://www.ciaw.org/streamingmedia.html


  
 
 
DWC Kaiser  Reports, Etc. found below:

Significant Panel Decision

Case No. OAK 271713

This is a case of legal harrassement of an injured employee by the Permanente Medical Group.  

Donna Yee-Sanchez vs. Permanente Medical Group

Yee-Sanchez v Permanente Medical Group (Case No. OAK 271713)

Yee-Sanchez, who has never been represented by counsel, sustained an admitted industrial injury to her neck and right upper extremity on January 11, 1999 while employed by PMG. Although there is no claim form in the WCAB’s file, it appears she filed a claim form with PMG shortly after her injury.
Dr. Duong was Yee-Sanchez’s primary treating physician and, on October 19, 2000, he issued a “final comprehensive report” that found her to be medically permanent and stationary with various factors of disability.


PMG objected to Dr. Duong’s assessment of Yee-Sanchez’s permanent disability and requested that she select a panel QME. (See Lab. Code, §4061(d).) She selected Dr. Hightower from a QME panel and, on December 4, 2000, Dr. Hightower issued a report finding her to be medically permanent and stationary with various factors of permanent disability.

On December 14, 2000, the Disability Evaluation Unit (“DEU”) issued a summary rating determination opining that the factors of permanent disability in Dr. Hightower’s report rated at  (See Lab. Code, §4061(j)

On January 5, 2001, PMG requested that the Administrative Director reconsider the DEU’s summary rating determination (see Lab. Code, §4061(l), but this request was ultimately denied.

Thereafter, PMG noticed depositions for Yee-Sanchez, Dr. Duong, and Dr. Hightower. It also issued two deposition subpoenas to Dr. Hightower.

In multiple letters to PMG, Yee-Sanchez objected to the taking of any depositions. 


Formerly, section 4061(k).

Formerly, section 4061(i).
However, PMG responded by a letter stating that, if she failed to appear for her deposition, it would file a petition to compel with the WCAB.

Following this letter from PMG, Yee-Sanchez sent a letter to the PWCJ, objecting to all depositions and noting that PMG had not yet filed an application. Nevertheless, PMG went forward with Dr. Hightower’s deposition (although, apparently, it never took the depositions of.............
Follow links to learn more about this important cast.

http://www.dir.state.ca.us/WCAB/2003SPD-3.doc
or
http://www.dir.state.ca.us/WCAB/2003SPD-3.pdf



Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
Kaiser Foundations Hospitals failed a random audit in 2001.  A subsequent target audit for Kaiser, conducted under the amended Labor Code Section 129 and closed in 2004, also resulted in failure.  Kaiser is scheduled for a return target audit to commence in 2006.  At the conclusion of the 2006 audit, the findings of the 3 audits will be reviewed to determine whether civil penalty charges will be filed with the Administrative Director pursuant to Labor Code Section 129.5 (e) and Title 8 California Code of Regulations Section 10114 (c).

http://www.dir.state.ca.us/dwc/AuditReport2005/auditReport2005.pdf
and
http://www.dir.state.ca.us/dwc/AuditReport2005/AuditReport2005.htm

Pamela Broderson and Vivian Miller  Statements regarding Kaiser employee overtime exemption year 2000
http://www.dir.state.ca.us/Iwc/PUBMTG12820000pdf.pdf



 Dragomir-Tremoureux v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. (BPD)(33 CWCR 302):

Applicant sustained an injury to her arms on 7-24-98 and a CT ending 10-30-2000 while working for Kaiser.  In November 1996 she had previously received an award for 18 ¾ % to her wrist.  The applicant was referred to an AME who applicant was 100% disabled as a result of all the industrial injuries, but concluded that the 18 ¾ % prior award of PD should be set off against the current 100% disability.  The WCJ after trial awarded 81 ¼ percent after apportionment to the prior award based the Escobedo case (apportionment to causation and the case of Nabors.  Applicant filed a petition for reconsideration which was granted by the Appeals Board.  The panel quoted portions of Labor Code Sections 4662, 4663 and 4664.  Labor code section 4662 provides that the loss of both hands or the loss of use of both hands is conclusively presumed to be total.  Labor Code section 4664 (b)  provides that if the applicant has received a prior award of PD, it is conclusively presumed that the prior award of PD existed at the time of the subsequent injury. Under Labor code section 4664 (c) the accumulation of all award issued for any one region of the body may not exceed 100% over the lifetime unless the employee’s injury or illness is conclusively presumed to be total pursuant to Labor Code Section 4662.  Labor Code section 4664 provides that upper extremities, including shoulders are a region of the body.  Nothing in Labor Code section 4664 is intended to permit a single injury to exceed a 100%.  In this case the Appeals Board concluded under Labor code Section 4664 (b) it was conclusively presumed that the 18 ¾ % PD still existed at the time of the injuries in this case.  The board also concluded that the presumption of Labor Code Section 4662 applied and that that it was presumed applicant’s disability was total. A conclusive presumption operates as a rule of substantive law and cannot be rebutted, and no evidence can be received to contradict it.  The board concluded board that Labor Code section 4662 presumption precludes apportionment because that the plain language of Labor code Section 4664 (c) (1) provides that the total of all PD awards issued with respect to any one region of the body do not exceed 100 % over the employee’s lifetime unless the employee’s injury or illness is conclusively presumed to be total per Labor Code section 4662.  Because applicants disability was presumed to be total pursuant to Labor Code Section 4662, her lifetime accumulation of upper extremity PD awards could exceed 100 percent PD. 
http://www.dir.state.ca.us/dwc/educonf13/Apportionment/Apportionment_MKahn.doc



 
Note from Dina:

"Many deaths occur at an intersection before they'll put up a stop sign or a light. I've been watching these programs on cable t.v. about medical malpractice caps and these so called journalists and their guests are laughing at the problems patients face today at HMO's, bad docs and the legal system. 

Is it because we've become so desensitized or is it because the many stories only equate to just figures and numbers.  Where are the faces and the stories? Nowhere but on the internet. Just like in worker's comp there are MILLIONS  of injured workers per year in this country, but yet the public sees the same old tape about an injured worker defrauding workers comp. 

That one injured worker has been representative of millions and millions of injured workers and wrongly so.

I guess what I 'm trying to say is that figures are not cutting it and just like in the holocaust which people finally are coming to grips with, the magnitude and gravity of the situation is realized because the individual stories are finally being  told.

Each one could provide a different part of the medmal  problem with HMO's/insurance today." 

Dina 

Here are some of the employee stories out of Kaiser and the for profit Permanente


Kelly Quinlan - Kaiser Employee and Patient Victim - http://workcomp.kaiserpapers.info/kelly.html - As a former Kaiser employee at Kaiser's Appointment and Advice Call Center in Sacramento, CA from November 2004 until I was transferred to the Roseville Outpatient Medical Records Department on 5/31/05 where "I would be gotten rid of" due to my disclosed disability, informing management I was very aware of them accessing my medical records without my consent (yes, they do this to employees), and the fact that I needed an ankle replacement.


MY KAISER-STATE FUND NIGHTMARE
The Kaiser Back Injury Denial of Treatment Worker's Comp Scam -  This is a very common story for injured workers. 
From Day 1, Kaiser/State Fund never gives a full diagnosis of why my back swelled up. I had no idea myself until I extract myself from Kaiser's care, as I am told it's just overstrained muscles. Xray's/MRI are never performed by Kaiser/State Fund because they want to save money and if a work-related injury comes to them, they know any benefits will take a long time to be recovered if ever. State Fund wishes to deny the claim because some IME claims he sees no signs of a work-related injury. He never even takes any x-rays or any true test to determine any underlying issues. 



I was a 20 year employee with Kaiser, not a smudge on my personnel record but was terminated when I reported a hostile work environment that was investigated and the parties found guilty ( they sabatoged my work, my car and almost killed me) THEN I found out my daughter was treated inappropriately ( sexual advance) during a routine exam by an md in this department I worked in, along with stalking her. 
My story - working for Kaiser, Getting injured by Paul D. Stutrud
Paul Strutrud a Union Construction Engineer who worked for Kaiser was injured on the job.  This is the story of how Kaiser did not provide adequate medical care for their own workers, how they did not even provide a diagnosis but rather did provide a guess.  In the end Paul was retroactively fired by Kaiser though they did present him with a minimal check as reinbursement for an invention that he created.  This is another story of Kaiser not even showing their own employees common decent treatment.  With this type of employee abuse I have to wonder why Kaiser hasn't yet figured out why so many employees want to tell their stories.


April Gottman - A Kaiser Employee



Deborah Steward A Kaiser Employee

Angelita Gordon an Employee of Kaiser Permanente


Gail Martellucci a Long Term Employee of Kaiser Permanente


Dina Padilla and her experience with Kaiser Permanente as an Employer

The Dina Padilla Story - 
This ongoing story of Dina Padilla and her inside experience as an employee of Kaiser and how she survived while "In The Hands of Kaiser." 

Dina Padilla/Kaiser - We were all Patients!
http://workcomp.kaiserpapers.info/dina.html
A chronicle of events that took place while in the employ of Kaiser and the for profit Permanente.  Warning!!!!!  This is eye opening.  This does not sound like it is a very nice place to work.

Mr. John Dean Brenner Victim of Kaiser
Kaiser Southern California IT Horror Story

H-1B Horror Stories 01 31 2000.txt

http://shameh-1b.webhostme.com/Horror.htm

H-1B Horror Stories

If you send a letter that describes your horrible experience with H-1B it will be posted here. There are many people, H-1Bs included, that have had bad experiences. Tell your horror story here.

12/7/99 I was on a project with Kaiser Permanente (KP) in Pasadena, California in 1997-1998. KP was developing a new system, using Cool:gen (IEF). There were a number of Cool:gen consultants working on the project - a mixture of H-1Bs' and U.S. citizens.

KP wanted the U.S. consultants to sign on as full time employees but was only willing to pay us about $60K per year. ($60K per year is a low salary for an experienced I.T. professional in S.California). As consultants we were making about $60 per hour so needless to say, most of us declined the KP offer.

So what did KP do? It sent it's managers to the Phillipines, Egypt and India to hire employees on H-1B visas. And guess what? Some of these new hires had NO knowledege of Cool:gen. They had lied on their re'sume's and in the interview. The H-1B hires were being paid about $50-55K per year. And you guessed it, once we trained the H-1Bs' our contracts were terminated.

The Cool Cool-gen programmer
Linda Kilcrease email: netmouser at earthlink.net



WORKERS COMPENSATION LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST KAISER PERMANENTE

Claimant sought medical treatment from Dr. Paul McClain, a physician employed by Capital Area Permanente Medical Group ("CAPMG"), which provides medical services to the patients of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center ("Kaiser"). 

http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/wiggins.html

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit  Files 3/21/01 OWENS V KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN, INC. 
http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/owens.html
Kaiser Permanente, Downey, California EEOC racial discrimination case.


No matter how big a tree is, if you cut off it's roots, it will die. - Cochise


Dina says that "it is the little groups that take the big groups down - just as in David and Goliath."

 

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