December 15, 2012
Jan Patterson, MD, MS, FSHEA
President of the Board of Trustees
Society of Healthcare Epidemiology
of America
Re: Prevention of Healthcare
Associated Infections in our Veteran’s Hospitals
Dear Dr. Patterson,
Please allow me to
thank you for the work you are doing concerning patient safety, I really
appreciate it! Due to my lack of knowledge concerning healthcare my advocacy
for the prevention of healthcare associated infections(HAI) in our Veteran’s
hospitals is dedicated to “supporting those who help others”, much like
yourself!
Currently I am
advocating for the establishment of some form of “Database of Best Practices
for the prevention of HAI” at the California Department of Public Health(CDPH),
it is covered by the freedom of information act and will be available to our
Veteran’s hospitals and any professional interested in the state of the art
science concerning the prevention of HAI.
Any input from your organization
would be most appreciated, this week I will be adding:
1.
Proper gauge of gloves operations to avoid micro
cracks in the glove.
2.
Wireless, disposable contact leads, just 5s in
general.
3.
No name badge cords
4.
Proper
water supply monitoring.
Anthem Blue Cross recently partnered with the University of
California concerning patient safety, good things should come from this,
hopefully adding to the database,
Healthcare facilities
that implement these best practices should be easy to identify in California’s surveillance
system, the public and big businesses will flock to these safe and efficient facilities.
Constantly improving
a known process will result in saved lives of mothers, fathers, sisters,
brothers and Veteran’s. Using the current system to do little more than
identify poorly performing facilities is a tragic waste of taxpayers’ money, developing
thousands of individual processes is beyond comprehension, the statistics prove
it in my opinion.
Once again, thank you
so much for your efforts!
Sincerely,
"If we
can improve the quality of care, that will translate into lower cost,"
Anthem President Pam Kehaly said. "These are real dollars”
Ps: this effort will not be without cost, your support would
be critical, the database already exists but your input and support will change
the modern healthcare industry, management is already heading back the “innovation”
camp, time is not on our side.
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