Affiliate: Planned Parenthood of Michigan
Locations: 10. Covered here: 10
Patients who feel a need to file a complaint:
Michigan Bureau of Community and Health Systems – Complaints
For a pdf report on the state that can be posted online, sent by email attachment, or printed in whole or with specific pages:
Michigan State Report Online PDF
Ann Arbor
Power Family Health Center
(previously Ann Arbor East)
Health Violation Documents:
Highlights:
Clinic Conditions
The facility mixed clean and dirty instruments, potentially causing contamination. Clean instruments were wrapped in the same place dirty instruments were being processed.
There was no emergency call system in the bathroom. A patient having a medical crisis couldn’t press a button to inform a nurse or other staff.
Patients were allowed to bring personal items into the operating room, without proper containment.
Staff failed to document and log the temperature of the operating room and the refrigerators where vaccines and medications were stored.
Staff
The facility failed to ensure that all staff doing moderately complex immunohematology Rh testing were qualified to do so. Inspectors gave the laboratory seven days to provide documentation of the training and credentials of one member of the staff doing the tests, and they were unable to provide it.
Other
The laboratory failed to run immunohematology Rh quality control checks on Rh tests before using the tests on patients. When asked, the facility’s Director of Quality, Risk and Compliance admitted, “It looks like they weren’t doing it right at that time.”
Borokwa
Court documents:
MI Ann Arbor Borokwa 2019 Court Complaint
MI Ann Arbor Borokwa 2019 Settlement Order
Excerpt:
28. Plaintiff was continually harassed by Defendant . . . during her employment with Defendant PPM.
29. Plaintiff reported this harassment . . .
30. Plaintiff made continuous complaints and no action was taken . . .
35. The following day, at the conclusion of the training, Defendant . . . hugged Plaintiff goodbye, when doing so he rubbed his hand down her back to her butt, and kissed her on the forehead.
36. On November 22, 2017, after discussing Defendant’s . . . inappropriate behavior with her female coworkers, Plaintiff’s female coworker sent an email on behalf of a group of female employees, including Plaintiff, as a complaint. . .
46. Plaintiff was advised that an investigation was open regarding the harassment matter.
47. Plaintiff was never approached by any team member regarding the investigation. Defendant PPM allowed Defendant’s . . . harassment and discrimination to continue after being made aware of the ongoing harassment and discrimination . . .
69. Plaintiff was terminatedonMay23,2018, and was told the reason for her termination was because she was “not fit for the company.” . . .
71. Plaintiff was retaliated against for her sexual harassment complaint against Defendant Lockett by being placed on a Professional Development Plan and by being terminated
Rygwelski
Court Document:
MI Ann Arbor Rygwelski 2017 Malpractice Complaint
Excerpt:
- On September 25, 2014, Plaintiff . . . was admitted to PLANNED PARENTHOOD seeking confirmation of pregnancy and also because she was experiencing vaginal discharge and odor. Her pregnancy was confirmed but an ultrasound was not performed in order to assess viability and gestational age.
- On October 1, 2014, Plaintiff . . . returned to PLANNED PARENTHOOD. A biopsy of her cervical tissue was performed and her specimen was sent to Quest Diagnostics for testing.
- On October 3, 2014, the lab results indicated that the cervical tissue was a product of conception. The tissue was actually an endocervical polyp. Defendant . . . misdiagnosed Plaintiff’s signs and symptoms as inevitable abortion. Defendant . . . wrongfully prescribed misoprostol and failed to perform an ultrasound to assess viability and gestational age of the fetus.
- Plaintiff . . . did not pass any tissue after the first course of misoprostol.
- On October 3, 2014, Plaintiff . . . was given a second course of misoprostol. No tissue was passed after the second course of misoprostol.
- On October 7, 2014, Plaintiff . . . saw her primary doctor . . . After performing a physical examination, Dr. . . . discovered polypoidal tissue in her cervix that was consistent with an endocervical polyp. An ultrasound examination was performed at Dr. . . . ‘s office and it revealed a viable intrauterine pregnancy at 7 weeks and 2 days with an expected date of conception on May 19, 2015.
- On October 10, 2014, Defendant . . . advised Plaintiff . . . that she should have a therapeutic abortion due to teratogenetic effects of misoprostol.
- On October 20, 2014, Plaintiff . . . had an abortion performed by a third party.
- Agents of PLANNED PARENTHOOD misdiagnosed Plaintiff . . . with an inevitable abortion. Agents of PLANNED PARENTHOOD should have performed an ultrasound to determine the status of the pregnancy and should not have prescribed misoprostol to a patient who desired to continue her pregnancy. As a result, Plaintiff’s pregnancy was wrongfully terminated.
Indeed.com Planned Parenthood Employee Reviews for Ann Arbor, MI
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Detroit
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Ferndale
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Flint
See this center’s Better Business Bureau page for complaints and reviews
Health Violation Documents:
Highlights:
Privacy curtains prevented nurses from seeing patients in the recovery room. The curtains obstructed their view and they couldn’t see if patients were in distress.
Patients were allowed to bring personal items into the operating room, without proper containment.
Single dose medications were used on multiple patients.
August 30, 2023
MI Flint Google 1. Accessed 06.11.21.
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MI Flint Google 4. Accessed 09.01.22.
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Grand Rapids
Irwin/Martin
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Gordon
Complaint Form:
MI Grand Rapids Gordon 02.07.06
Full Factual Statement:
I was terminated 2/2/04 for altering a medical record dispensing ECP medication without a clinician’s written order on January 24, 2004. This was a customary procedure of Planned Parenthood. It was acceptable to dispense ECP emergency contraception after the fact. A verbal authorization was also acceptable to dispense ECP. Both White and Black health care specialists dispensed Plan B emergency contraception without a clinician’s written authorization on January 24, 2004.
Note: This was filed as a racial discrimination complaint, but the activity she reports was and remains illegal in Michigan. Prescriptions from valid prescribers were required.
Document:
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights
Health Information Privacy Complaint:
Excerpt:
In conclusion, I don’t feel that Planned Parenthood is providing me with a safe work and non-hostile environment because of my race, ethnicity, and not taking the complaint seriously . . . I love my job here at Planned Parenthood, but if this workplace harassment continues and I don’t feel safe at work, then I will be forced to take further action.
Indeed.com Planned Parenthood Employee Reviews for Grand Rapids, MI
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Kalamazoo
Erwin-Sheppard
Article from MLive:
Dead woman’s ultrasound showed clot, problems after abortion, records show
Excerpt:
Cree Erwin-Sheppard went to the emergency department at Bronson Battle Creek Hospital the evening of July 2, 2016 vomiting and in extreme pain . . . By July 4, she was dead . . .
According to the medical record of that emergency visit, shared by her brother Thursday, April 13 at a protest of her death, “the patient’s symptoms and work-up results were consistent with an incomplete miscarriage and pelvic pain.”
A copy of an unfilled prescription for pain medication obtained from Erwin-Sheppard’s mother bears the signature of a doctor at Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo, but the clinic, citing privacy laws, would not confirm the woman had ever been a patient there . . .
[T]he redacted death certificate received shows Erwin-Sheppard was pronounced dead shortly before 1 a.m. July 4 of “complications of intrauterine pregnancy, including (with lay translations in parentheses) pulmonary emboli (blood clots in the lungs) related to uterine vein thrombosis (blood clot in the uterus) and uterine perforation status post early vacuum aspiration (abortion) and intrauterine contraceptive device placement (placement of an IUD),”
July 4, 2016
Call by mother from patient’s home.
September 10, 2015
October 29, 2022
Kalamazoo Michigan Incident September 10, 2015
Health Violation Documents:
Highlights:
The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist failed to properly document narcotic wastage.
Indeed.com Planned Parenthood Employee Reviews for Kalamazoo, MI
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Lansing
March 15, 2018
Lansing Michigan Incident March 15, 2018
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Livonia
MI Livonia Google added 1. Accessed 05.06.25.
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Traverse City
Walker Health Center
October 27, 2023
Warren
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