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Citation needed

This is from the third paragraph

However, Kaiser has had disputes with its employees' unions, repeatedly faced civil and criminal charges for falsification of records and patient dumping, faced action by regulators over the quality of care it provided, especially to patients with mental health issues, and has faced criticism from activists and action from regulators over the size of its cash reserves.

Where are the citations?

Group Health acquisition

Shouldn’t there be some mention of the acquisition (if that’s the right term) of Group Health?

(I see one earlier mention of doing so here on the Talk page, from 2017, but it didn’t get implemented.) Rob Cranfill (talk) 18:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Inappropriate "See also" entry?

This is the only entry under "see also" --

"Heather O'Rourke (1975–1988) – child actress who became ill in 1987 and was misdiagnosed by doctors of Kaiser Permanente Hospital. She died on February 1, 1988, and a lawsuit followed shortly thereafter."

Isn't that a little random? Is that the proper use of the "see also" section?

Maybe it's appropriate. I'm just bringing it up.

Middleground1 (talk) 19:35, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Labor Unions Conclusion

The section on controversies concludes with a substantial paragraph about the measures being taken by the firm to address the union's issues. While it does contain some easily-verified statistics, such as the number of individuals involved and the timeframe of negotiations, much of the paragraph is dedicated to promoting Kaiser as making substantial changes very much in favor of the company. The fact that there is no citation but the is a direct link to Kaiser's Labor Management Partnership website leads me to believe at best this is an irresponsible addition and at worst a press release added in bad-faith. In either case until a citation is added I believe everything after the fourth sentence needs to be removed. TenantSea (talk) 01:03, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The section was challenged FOUR years ago. I removed it. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 01:32, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs semi-protection

This article is about to get more a lot more attention because Kamala Harris is the current Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States and was born at Kaiser Oakland Medical Center in 1964. This article is seeing vandalism on average about once a month but I suspect that is about to go way up.

I just caught and reverted apparent vandalism to the infobox in January 2024, which no one had caught. (Kaiser was founded in Oakland, not Fontana.) This article needs to be put under semi-protection so that only established users can edit it. Coolcaesar (talk) 17:05, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Coolcaesar: You can request protection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection but typically, protection is a reaction to problems and not preventative for anticipated problems. Feel free to make the request and try the system out though. It cannot hurt and making a case always helps.

The reason is that in Wikipedia vandalism is often a benefit. Usually Wikipedia editors or the bots detect it quickly and remove it, and letting vandals edit things is often a signal that other people are interested in seeing an article developed also.

As to the vandalism you questioned, I know nothing about this. KP reports that it offered health services at the Kaiser Steel Mill in Fontana. Bluerasberry (talk) 17:37, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]