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Ohio News Stories About Kaiser Permanente
Ohio - Kaiser facility lost accredidation. 

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) suspended the health plan's current accreditation status...
Kaiser cut its medical budget while adding members, tied a portion of doctors' pay to how well they limited certain medical services and developed treatment guidelines based partly on advice from cost-conscious consultants.

2 workers are fired by Kaiser for deceit - 06/10/03 - Roger Mezger Reporter with the Plain Dealer

Kaiser Permanente of Ohio has fired two workers for allegedly changing documents so that the HMO would score higher in an evaluation.

"We discovered it, we promptly investigated it, we reported it, and we're fixing it," Patricia Kennedy-Scott, regional president for Ohio, said yesterday.

Kaiser Ohio 1997 Media Guide - http://ohionews.kaiserpapers.org/pdfs/ohio kaiser 1997 media guide.pdf

Kaiser Permanente Ohio - Project 2: Keep it Confidential Health Care Information Systems 20 April 1998

A computer based patient record provides clinicians with complete accurate data and allows for
greater access to patient information. In our last project we investigated ways to reduce the cost
of medical records keeping and to improve access to patient records for Kaiser Permanente of
Ohio.



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