Examiner.com Articles
by Patrick Monette-Shaw
SF Hospital Examiner
Examiner.com
Articles
by Patrick Monette-Shaw
SF Hospital Examiner
The West of Twin Peaks Central Council unanimously passed a resolution on June 28, 2010 calling for a full audit of Laguna Honda Hospital’s patient gift fund.
Here are printer-friendly PDF files of selected articles and
slide shows posted on Examiner.com:
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Laguna Honda Hospital restricts staff donations
to patient gift fund, donations drop 89%. |
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Executive Administrator admits responsibility
for Laguna Honda Hospital patient gift fund, then dissembles. Mivic Hirose’s 6/24/10 Letter Mitch Katz’s 9/2/10 Press Release Mitch Katz’s 11/22/10 Letter |
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Audit Restores $350,000 to Laguna Honda Hospital's
Patient Gift Fund. Controller’s 11/22/10 Audit Report: "Laguna Honda Hospital Needs to Improve the Management of Its Gift Fund" |
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MD who uncovered Laguna Honda Hospital patient
gift fund scandal files wrongful termination lawsuit. Dr. Kerr’s Lawsuit |
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San Francisco’s public health director implies
Laguna Honda Hospital patient gift funds used for staff morale
is OK. |
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More on San Francisco health commission names
Laguna Honda Hospital spaces after strange bedfellows. |
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San Francisco health commission names Laguna
Honda Hospital spaces after strange bedfellows. |
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Laguna Honda Hospital receives second state citation
regarding its patient gift fund. 9/30/10 State Citation |
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Public hospital's processes auditing patient
gift fund raises many red flags. |
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Health commission president praises whistle-blowers
who exposed hospital’s patient gift fund scandal. |
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Laguna Honda Foundation web pages also go missing
during audit of hospital's patient gift fund. |
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Laguna Honda Hospital to track patients and staff
using RFID technology, violating privacy. |
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Web page for Laguna Honda Hospital's troubled
gift fund vanishes as conflicted internal audit begins. |
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Public health director's fuzzy math confounds
San Francisco hospital's gift fund scandal. Dr. Katz's September 2 Press Release |
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Expense cost-shifting, missing funds deplete
Laguna Honda Hospital’s gift fund by $1.3 million. Part 1: Cost Shifting Report to Health Commission Part 2: Cost Shifting Report to Health Commission |
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San Francisco Health Commission set to rule on
CPMC hospital's dialysis outsourcing plan. |
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Potential conflict of interest may skew a new
“review” of Laguna Honda Hospital’s troubled patient
gift fund. |
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Donors beware part 6: San Francisco’s Laguna
Honda Foundation refuses to disclose financial data. |
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Patients fight California Pacific Medical Center’s
plans to outsource dialysis services. |
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Nurses fight St. Luke’s hospital cuts; San
Francisco 30 percent skilled nursing bed shortage. |
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Is San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital
again claiming it’s ‘not a hospital’ in July 2010? |
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“Google alerts” reports some Laguna
Honda Hospital problems, but fails reporting others. |
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Original 1993 policy of San Francisco public
hospital surfaces, titled “patient’s gift fund.” |
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Charitable donations to patient gift fund to
be transferred to San Francisco hospitals operations account. |
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To quell patient gift fund scandal, hospital
considers tapping taxpayers and another charitable source. |
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Angela Alioto sets record straight about $1 billion
tobacco revenue for San Francisco hospitals. |
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Laguna Honda Hospital budgeted $210,000 for June
26 ribbon-cutting ceremony, then cut it to $140,000. Kanaley’s August 2008 Transition Budget |
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San Francisco “state-of-the-art” hospital
faces embarrassing worst-class ADA-accessible pathway. Initial 2006 LHH Cinician's Report Architect’s 2007 Response |
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Donors Beware Part 3: Volunteers Inc. refused
advocating for audit of hospital’s patient gift fund. |
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Donors Beware Part 2: Laguna Honda Hospital’s
June 24 fundraising dinner grows scarier. |
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Adage “buyer beware” applies to Laguna
Honda Hospital’s June 24 fundraising dinner donors. |
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Laguna Honda Hospital patient trips plummeted
66 percent; staff accounts earned $89,998 in interest. |
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San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital “patient
gift fund” plummets from $2 million to $545,554. [Includes illustration of Patient Gift Fund
sub-account balances as of 6/9/10.] |
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San Francisco Supervisor turns blind eye to raid of hospital’s gift fund, busy planning gala dinner. [Includes illustrations of donation checks and deposit slips.] | Slide Show |
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