Undercover inspections dating back to 2015 found illegal disposals, including thousands of patient records, at 16 facilities statewide.
Kaiser will pay up to $49 million tobrought by the state Department of Justice and prosecutors in six counties, including San Bernardino, that accused California’s largest health care provider of disposing of syringes, medicine, bodily fluids and potentially body parts in dumpsters bound for local landfills.
“Nurses, physicians and patients could inadvertently touch blood or bodily fluids containing dangerous pathogens. Custodians and sanitation workers could be stuck by a used needle. An aerosol can that wasn’t fully empty could explode and start a fire in a trash can, or in the back of a garbage truck making its way through neighborhood streets.”
“We immediately completed an extensive auditing effort of the waste stream at our facilities and established mandatory and ongoing training to address the findings,” the statement said. “We take this matter extremely seriously and have taken full responsibility to acknowledge and, in cooperation with the California Attorney General and county district attorneys, correct our performance regarding landfill-bound trash where it may have fallen short of our standards.
Kaiser cooperated with the investigation and conducted 1,100 self-audits, which revealed even more problems, according to Ken Mifsud, a deputy district attorney from Alameda County, now working in San Mateo County.
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