December 9,
2012
Jorge
Palacios
California
Department of Public Health (CDPH-CHCQ-HAI)
Re:
“Database of Best Practices for the Prevention of Healthcare Associated
Infections(HAI)”!
Dear Mr.
Palacious,
Once again please
allow me to thank you and the entire staff at the California Department of
Public Health for the work you do to improve patient safety. After the recent
report of the case of five Healthcare Associated Infections(HAI) due to,
according to the media, a “lack of a national standard” concerning the
prevention of HAI as the root cause allows my advocacy to “rest my case” in the
creation of some form of “Database of Best Practices for the prevention of HAI”
at the CDPH, “just kidding”, I want to make sure proper glove usage is added to
the database, hopefully your office is way ahead of me. This week I made my
first call to Assemblymenber Achadjian office, I will keep your office informed.
Below is my comments
to a new hand hygiene video put out by Jefferson University Hospitals, pretty
cool. My wife makes me watch everything “Jackson”!
Not only wash your hands but just as important dry them as
well. What did we do to ensure the entire medical community benefits from this
profound knowledge, post it on line, make a video and forget all about it in a
month or two.
How about micro
cracks in surgical gloves being used by a doctor with an active infection on
his or her hands? Spend a few hundred grand repairing the damage(patients) and
blame the medical system for not having a national standardized process, you
can rule out a video but hiding the evidence is much more complicated via the
law requiring the California Department of Public Health’s(CDPH) state of the
art monitoring system, no credit in the media, report and the freedom of
information act!
Ok, we only use our
state of the art monitoring system to penalizing healthcare facilities with poor
statistics(mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and veterans), great! Anthem
Blue Cross has partnered with the University of California Medical system to
improve patient safety and efficiency, how about the CDPH developing some form of “Database of
Best Practices for the Prevention of HAI” to be constantly improved by all and
verified by the current(funded) surveillance system and actually benefiting the
medical system worldwide.
Yes, in my opinion it
would save billions of dollars in California in addition to saving tens of
thousands of lives annually, do you think underwriters might buy into the
concept, "oh yea, they are driving the process"!
"If we
can improve the quality of care, that will translate into lower cost,"
Anthem President Pam Kehaly said. "These are real dollars”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/cedars-sinai-doctor-infected-5-patients-during-surgery.html
“hai-five” and “have fun”, just be sure and wash and dry your
hands first!
Sincerely,
Ps: Happy holidays, here is something I ran across in my
research, the colors are relevant for the season, the message is for all of
those who will not be with their families for the holidays, fortunately, our
kid will be home with us, mom is pretty excited!
Semper
Fi!
The
picture, our kid and other P.C.V.s organized a “food security youth camp”. The
chief, in a show of his appreciation for her efforts, gave her a chicken, a
high honor in that area, mom asked her today “what happened to the chicken, “I
ate it”!
She is coming home for Christmas, I have to be careful, she is probably going to see all this stuff!
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