More than two years have passed since Roland Coleman, a seasoned attorney, started trying to get onto the kidney transplant waitlist.
, vigorously disputed their statements.
“I have lost over a year during this tenuous period in my life,” he wrote. “Medical treatment delayed is medical treatment denied.” The medical center said that Coleman, who provided consent for Keck to discuss his medical history with The Times, could still be assessed as a candidate after it sent the August letter, but there had been inconsistencies between his claims and its existing records, and that it needed more documents to reconsider his eligibility.
In September, he told Keck he had already provided a release to get any medical records they needed. A Keck representative told him that they had made efforts to do so, but “the ultimate responsibility for providing all required records lies with you as the patient.” “We really advocated, saying that, ‘We’ve done this entire evaluation. The patient is established with us. He’s happy with us,’” and tried to get approval for Coleman to get a transplant there, said Wendy Escobedo, director of nursing in dialysis and transplant for Providence St. Joseph.
More than two years have now passed since he first went to Keck to seek a transplant. Keck said in March that it had received documents that it needed and could reevaluate him as a candidate. Among the documents that Keck had received: one from a cardiologist stating that the risk of cardiac complications surrounding the surgery for him should be low.affiliate Optum did not allow him to be evaluated at two programs, so moving forward with UCLA would prevent him from proceeding with Keck.
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