VOICES,INC.B.E.S.T.,
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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
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.
5.
6.
7.
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:
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).
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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