Trauma

Amazon’s One Medical Failure

FROM BOOKS TO BLADDER INFECTIONS –

June 15, 2024  – Since Amazon acquired the primary-care service One Medical, elderly patients have been routed to a call center — staffed partly by contractors with limited training — that failed on more than a dozen occasions to seek immediate attention for callers with urgent symptoms. One patient reported a “blood clot, pain and swelling,” call center staff scheduled an appointment … 

Over the following two days, clinical staffers flagged four more call-center errors involving elderly patients with urgent complaints, including stomach pain and blood in stool, a spike in blood pressure, an insect bite and sudden rib pain, according to the internal spreadsheet.

The call-center incidents were among dozens flagged by doctors, nurses and assistants at One Medical Seniors between Feb. 19 and March 18 in the documents, a year after Amazon acquired the primary-care service. One Medical began routing elderly patients to the call center in Tempe, Ariz., staffed partly by newly hired contractors with limited training and little to no medical experience, according internal documents seen by The Post and interviews with four current and former One Medical workers.

CONTINUE@WashingtonPost

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