Number	22810
Subject	Health Care
Source	KPIX-TV (San Francisco)
State	CA
Year	2006
Publication Date	05/02/2006 -05/10/2006; 05/12/2006; 05/16/2006; 05/07/2006; 05/23/2006; 06/08/2006; 06/23/2006; 08/04/2006; 08/10/2006
Summary	"The kidney transplant program at the nation's largest non-profit HMO, Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente, was supposed to a model organ transplant program for thousands of desperately ill patients. But it April 2006, KPIX-TV discovered that program was in complete disarray and those problems were endangering the lives of the more than 2,000 Kaiser patients in need of transplants."
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	61
Keywords	organ transplant; HMO; Kaiser Permanentel; kidney
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