[4] To meet California's updated earthquake safety standards, the Oakland Medical Center was replaced in stages.

A 42-inch flat-screen monitor in each room allows patients to watch TV, and also to look up the names of doctors and nurses, have a remote conversation with an interpreter and see their treatment plan.

[10] All Mills students are able to access all of Oakland Medical Center's services in addition to any other Kaiser campus.

[13] In fact, the entire health organization could have lost millions in funding if it did not immediately remediate the chronic understaffing of critical care positions at this hospital.

[16] Moreover, due to the conditions the Health Care Financing Administration has threatened to cut Kaiser's $700,000 Medicare disbursement.

[16] The San Francisco Chronicle reported that once investigators leave "it all goes down the tubes again" and that management changes the charting system monthly causing distress for the employees.

[16] It has also been reported that staff have been banned from charting anything that could arouse the suspicions of inspectors such as medical record errors and that some workers had been written up for doing so.

[16] Kaiser's spokesperson reported that morale is low and the medical facility is undergoing "tough" and "turbulent" times.