User talk:Kgkeane519

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Hello Kgkeane519. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Kgkeane519. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kgkeane519|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jytdog (talk) 05:37, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

{{request edit}} As stated previously, I have received compensation from Prime Healthcare in the past for communications related materials. However, I write today strictly to set the record straight out of a sense of fairness for the current workers at Shasta. While I recognize that the history of Shasta Regional should include reference to the whistleblower suit filed against the previous owners, it is unfair to cite the suit in both the history and legal sections so prominently. In addition, the DOJ has settled the cited case against Prime without an admission of guilt: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-prime-healthcare-alvarado-hospital-20180804-story.html

My suggested edits are below.

History The hospital was the first in Redding California, opening its doors in 1945 as Memorial Hospital. It was purchased by Tenet Healthcare Corporation in 1976 and renamed Redding Medical Center. Tenet sold the hospital to Hospital Partners of America in 2004, and the hospital was purchased again in 2008 by Prime Healthcare Services. Shasta Regional Medical Center serves nine counties in Northern California.

Shasta Regional Medical Center is the only hospital in Shasta County certified as a Chest Pain Center and become a Primary Stroke Center for the region i in 2006. It was the first hospital in California and the 11th in the nation to be certified as an Advanced Inpatient Diabetes Care hospital by the Joint Commission.

The hospital was named a "Top Performer on Key Quality Measures" by the Joint Commission based on care and patient outcomes for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care in 2010.

Legal In 2002, two cardiologists serving the hospital were placed under federal investigation as a result of multiple whistleblower lawsuits filed under the federal False Claims Act. The suits alleged the doctors, Chae Hyun Moon and Fidel Realyvasquez, "undertook large volumes of inappropriate and unnecessary procedures on largely healthy patients." Three whistleblowers split 15 percent of the total $62.55 million settlement, and hospital management implemented steps to ensure similar incidents would not occur in the future. (7) In 2004, Tenet established a $395 million fund for 769 cardiac patients to settle civil suits brought against the two doctors.

Following an investigation for Medicare fraud by the US Department of Health Health and Human Services and the California Department of Justice, Prime Healthcare Services agreed to a $65 million settlement to resolve the allegations, which involved 14 Prime hospitals, including Shasta. (citation here) Prime settled the suit without admitting wrongdoing. As part of the settlement, Prime founder Dr Prem Reddy agreed to pay $3.25 million, while Prime Healthcare, Prime Healthcare Foundation and Prime Healthcare Management agreed to pay the remainder.

SHASTA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AWARDS

2019 - Watson 50 Top Hospital in the Nation

2018 – Five out of Five Star Award by Healthgrades for patient safety outcomes, treatment of heart failure, respiratory failure, bowel obstruction, total hip and knee replacement as well as for pacemaker and defibulator procedures.

2018 - Gold Seal of Approval for hip and knee replacement by The Joint Commission

2017 Received Women’s Choice Award as on the Americas Best Hospital’s for Heart Care

2017 Recognized as a Pioneer in Quality Data Contributor

Thank you for your consideration

Kgkeane519 (talk) 21:55, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's my understanding that this is the talk page of Shasta Regional Medical Center, which is where I am requesting the changes be made. If I am mistaken, please direct me. thank you. Kgkeane519 (talk) 21:08, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your understanding is incorrect. The page you seek is Talk:Shasta Regional Medical Center. Regards,  Spintendo  22:42, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.Rsjaffe (talk) 21:14, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Prime Healthcare Services, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Kgkeane519, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kgkeane519|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. scope_creep^Talk 21:17, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have posted an updated disclosure on my user page kgkeane519 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgkeane519 (talk • contribs)

Thank you for clearing up the disclosure at your userpage. As an editor with a continuing conflict of interest please request edits to the articles of Shasta Regional Medical Center and Prime Healthcare Services via the article talk pages thanks and cease editing both articles directly. -- Longhair\^talk 21:51, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What is my continued conflict? As stated, I have not been affiliated with Prime for several years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgkeane519 (talk • contribs)

As an editor with a previous paid relationship with the subject of the articles concerned, you are not independent of the topic due to your past association with the organisation. Any editor may view your declaration at your userpage and determine a conflict of interest still exists despite you not performing any paid work for some time. To avoid any issues raised by a potential or perceived conflict of interest, requesting edits rather than editing the articles directly will dismiss all concerns about you editing the articles whatsoever. -- Longhair\^talk 03:07, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I want to restore former edits under the history category that were deleted by scope creep. Where can I find them to cut and paste into request format? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgkeane519 (talk • contribs)

Check the article history for the relevant edit, or even your own contributions if it is something you have previously contributed yourself. -- Longhair\^talk 18:09, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you just requested an edit at Talk:Prime_Healthcare_Services. So that other editors know about your edit request you'll need to add the edit request template to the talk page also. Full instructions are available at Wikipedia:Edit requests under the Making Requests section. -- Longhair\^talk 20:32, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]