San Diego Union Tribune: Full airing, please

The Editors at the Union Tribune wrote: "In the meantime, we call on the Palomar Pomerado trustees to do the right thing and expose the details of the Kaiser bed guarantee to the air and light."
June 30, 2008, page B6

Union Tribune Covers Concerns of Informed Citizens

The Union Tribune has two articles about the cost overruns for the new hospital, the funding cuts to the downtown Medical Village project, and secretive Kaiser Agreement.

The 'new hospital will have 300 beds, not 453', and the downtown project budget of '$73 million . . . is down to $20.8 million for two warehouses and buying three properties - none of it to pay for the healing gardens, pedestrian pathway, stone-covered buildings and magnet high school the district talked about in detail in 2005'
SD Union Tribune: Costs Cloud Vision

Regarding an agreement to set aside "about one-third of the 300 beds" in the new hospital "for patients of Kaiser Permanente", PPH lawyer claimed the Kaiser agreement was protected from public disclosure because of "trade secrets".
SD Union Tribune: District defends guarding details of Kaiser contract

"Quiet" Layoffs at PPH

PPH is laying off 67 full-time employees and 19 part-timers to reduce overhead costs. PPH currently has 2,663 full time employees.

More is available at:
NCTimes Article: PPH Layoffs

The Secret Kaiser/PPH Agreement (Redacted!)

The Paper recently forwarded a redacted copy of the secret Kaiser Agreement to me. I have since found out that other media outlets had received copies of the secret Kaiser Agreement before The Paper received it in response to the public records requests, namely the North County Times in February, and the Union Tribune in April. Neither the NCTimes nor the UT have reported on the secret Kaiser Agreement.

PPH has refused to provide me with any part of the Kaiser Agreement for over 2 years!
http://civics.robroy.cc/PPH-KAgmtDenial1.pdf January 31, 2006.

The redacted secret Kaiser/PPH agreement is available at this link:
http://civics.robroy.cc/ka.html

To date, the Paper is the only media outlet to inform the public of the redacted secret Kaiser Agreement:

"Redacted Kaiser/PPH Agreement Released
In response to a recent public records request made by The Paper, Palomar Pomerado Health has provided a redacted (blacked out) version of a Hospital Services Agreement between Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Palomar Pomerado Health effective February 1, 2004.
The 4-year old Kaiser/PPH Agreement is 73 pages. About 12% of the Kaiser/PPH Agreement was redacted. An attached set of Appendices includes an additional 60 pages. About 58% of the Appendices was redacted. A copy of the Kaiser/PPH agreement is available on the web at: http://civics.robroy.cc/ka.html

The details of the Kaiser/PPH Agreement will be reported after more study of this information and will be published in The Paper, when completed."

The Paper, May 29th, 2008

Interesing parts of the Kaiser/PPH Agreement:

15.7 Consultation andCooperation
The parties shall consult with each other regarding any issue pertaining to the Agreement which causes media interest or a party's concern about public relations, and the parties shall cooperate in developing any statement or press releases in connection with any such issue. . . .

8.10.2(c) If the Receiving Party . . . is requested (by . . . requests for public records under Government Code § 6250 et seq., . . . ) to disclose any Confidential Information, that party shall . . . give the other party prompt written notice of the request . . . at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to making such disclosure, so that the other party may seek a protective order . . .

2.6 Capacity {Completely Redacted}
7.6 PMC Expanded Facilities Design {Completely Redacted}
7.7 Clinical and Administrative Office Space Leasing {Completely Redacted}
7.8 Additional Facilities {Completely Redacted}