By Ariane Lange | Sacramento Bee
Kaiser Permanente agreed to a $49 million settlement this month after state and local law enforcement found the health care giant disposed of confidential patient information, hazardous waste and medical waste including blood and body parts in regular trash streams.
“We saw bodily fluids and body parts that should not have been in the public waste stream,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said at a news conference Friday. “The settlement requires Kaiser to take significant steps and spend money to invest in preventing unlawful disposals from happening again in the future.”
Bonta said Kaiser Permanente was “extremely cooperative” with the investigation, which began in 2015 as undercover personnel from local district attorneys’ offices peeked into unsecured dumpsters whose contents were headed straight to landfills. The health care provider conducted its own trash audits as it worked with authorities.
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I’m so tired of hearing that it’s lower income people of color most affected.. I’m lower income people of color, so what? We choose where we live just like everybody else. Everybody in a certain perimeter of the dumpsite is affected. Including people who may not live there but work in the area. I wish they would stop with this whole lower income people of color thing. Its ridiculous. Like we some victims or something. Get real..