Kaiser keeps COVID and non-COVID patients in same units
Unbeknownst to family and patients, Kaiser has been keeping COVID and non-COVID patients on the same hospital nursing units when bed space runs short. Kaiser refuses to say how widespread the practice has been or how many patients consequently contracted the deadly virus.
I learned of the practice when an elderly, immunocompromised relative hospitalized in Kaiser’s Oakland facility for an unrelated reason tested positive for the virus on the ninth day of her stay. She had tested negative on the first, third and sixth days in the hospital and had been permitted no outside visitors. The positive test was reconfirmed on the 10th day.
The relative, after being diagnosed Jan. 20 with COVID, was moved to an isolation room across the hall — on the same eighth floor she had been staying. Medical personnel told me that, because of staffing shortages, doctors shuttled between rooms in the unit with COVID patients and those with uninfected patients.
In this case, the potential for virus spread was exacerbated because the patient was taken elsewhere in the hospital for surgery on that ninth day, just hours after being tested and before the positive COVID result was received.
Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/02/05/borenstein-kaiser-keeps-covid-and-non-covid-patients-in-same-units/
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WTAF? 
for a huge law suit if one of those patients contracted COVID-19 while in hospital.
This is just plain stupid, but what else would you expect from a money grubbing conglomerate like Kaiser.
