Affiliate: Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast
covers the Houston area, including Stafford, plus Louisiana.
Locations: 5. Covered here: 5.
Patients who feel a need to file a complaint:
Texas Health and Human Services – File a Complaint for a Health Facilities
Gulf Coast Affiliate
Press release of the United States Department of Justice, Friday, August 16, 2013
Planned Parenthood Pays $4.3 Million To Settle Allegations of Unnecessary Medical Care
Houston (entire city)
Huffmeyer
Court Document:
Huffmeyer Race Discrimination Complaint
Excerpt:
- At the end of August 2017, PPGC assigned a new supervisor to oversee Ms. Huffmeyer’s performance . . . Following that appointment, Ms. Huffmeyer’s workplace quickly turned into a living nightmare. Not only did [the new supervisor] persistently belittle Ms. Huffmeyer; she also resorted to treating her so badly that her work environment quickly became sufficiently hostile to start causing her health to deteriorate, all because of Ms. Huffmeyer’s race and national origin. Among other health issues, Ms. Huffmeyer developed daily headaches and fever blisters . . .
- Not only did [the supervisor] abuse Ms. Huffmeyer without cause as to her work; she also made inappropriate comments about her national origin. [She] once asked Ms.Huffmeyer how “close” she was to Ms. . . . Nguyen (the Director of the PPGC Center for Choice), just because both Ms. Huffmeyer and Ms. Nguyen were Vietnamese. Essentially, [she] assumed that two unrelated people would immediately form a clique in their workplace, just because they both happen to be of Vietnamese origin. Ms. Huffmeyer told Ms. [her] that she did not know Ms. Nguyen well at all. Ms. Farrell responded by stating that she did not trust Ms. Nguyen and that Ms. Huffmeyer should not trust her either. When Ms. Huffmeyer tried to reassure [her] that her only goal was to make sure she looked good, [she] dismissed her, saying, “I’m not sure about that! Birds of a feather…!” . . .
- Instead of seeing her working conditions improve, Ms. Huffmeyer was unceremoniously terminated, just over three months after the complaint was filed, without any respect for the ten years of impeccable service she delivered to the Company.
Castro
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Consent Decree
No incidents are detailed, and Planned Parenthood denies culpability, but settled the case for a $40,000 payment plus agreeing to training and policy changes to prevent sexual harassment of employees.
Indeed.com Planned Parenthood Employee Reviews for Houston, TX
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Houston
Northville
TX Houston Northville Google 1. Accessed 09.13.22.
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TX Houston Northville Google 7. Accessed 05.23.21.
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TX Houston Northville Google 9. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Houston Northville Yelp 1
Houston
Northwest
TX Houston Northwest Google 1. Accessed 05.23.21.
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TX Houston Northwest Google 9. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Northwest Yelp 1
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TX Houston Northwest Yelp 3
Houston
Prevention Park
“Center for Choice” has been a previous name used at this location.
Health Violation Documents:
Clinic Conditions
The biological indicator used on the autoclave wasn’t properly tested. The autoclave was used to sterilize instruments. Inspectors determined that the biological indicator tests being conducted weren’t valid.
Medical equipment in the operating room was covered with rust and couldn’t be disinfected.
Packages of dilators marked as sterile had dime-sized brown spots on them. When questioned about the stains, a staff member admitted that the instruments weren’t sterile and shouldn’t have been labeled as such or stored with the sterile instruments.
Instruments were improperly sterilized. Instruments were improperly packaged, preventing them from being properly sterilized.
Staff
The doctor was operating on women without washing his hands. Staff members failed to wash their hands after handling dirty instruments.
When a doctor was observed not washing her hands after surgery, she told inspectors, “Yes, I should do that, but because maybe sometimes if people are watching you, it’s kind of overwhelming.”
Staff didn’t have training on how to properly sterilize instruments. Three of the staff working in sterile processing had no documentation of training or competency.
Staff didn’t properly measure the amount of detergent per water used to clean instruments.
None of the nurses administering sedation were officially trained to do so or had documentation of competency to do so. The Director of Nurses claimed that nurses administering sedation learned on the job, by observing others in a mentorship-type situation, but none of the employees administering sedation were formally trained.
Treatment of Patients
Contaminated, unsterile instruments were used in surgery.
Staff didn’t clean the IV port prior to injecting medications into women
August 23, 2012
December 14, 2013
January 31, 2015
February 6, 2015
Note to help understand the content: a uterine perforation is potentially an infertility and life-threatening condition.
February 25, 2015
The overlapping audio files were in the original document.
February 26, 2015
August 4, 2015
Google reviews / Yelp reviews – Prevention Park.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 1. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 2. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 3. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 4. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 5. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 6. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 7. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 8. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 9. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 10. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Prevention Park Google 11. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Houston Prevention Park Yelp 1
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TX Houston Prevention Park Yelp 5
Houston
Southwest
TX Houston Southwest Google 1. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Houston Southwest Google 2. Accessed 05.23.21.
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TX Houston Southwest Google 12. Accessed 09.13.22.
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TX Houston Southwest Yelp 1
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Stafford
Health Violation Document:
Highlights:
Clinic Conditions
Hazardous chemicals and cleaning products were not stored in a secure manner.
Staff
Two of the five staff providing direct patient care didn’t have training or certification in CPR or basic life support.
Treatment of Patients
The facility failed to develop and implement written discharge instructions. None of the patients had been given a list of potential complications to be aware of. They weren’t instructed on what symptoms indicated an emergency and necessitated calling the facility or going to an emergency room. They weren’t given an emergency number to call to reach a doctor in the event of a complication or if they had questions. The clinic staff didn’t inform women of the number and location of the nearest hospital.
The facility wasn’t having women return for a follow up appointment after taking a medication that might put women in danger of suffering infection or hemorrhaging.
TX Stafford Google 1. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Stafford Google 2. Accessed 05.23.21.
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TX Stafford Google 7. Accessed 05.23.21.
TX Stafford Google 8. Accessed 09.13.22.
TX Stafford Google 9. Accessed 05.23.21.
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