Last year I do believe someone at the World Health Organization claimed that
Hospital Associated Infections(HAI), sooner than later, will be the demise of
the modern hospital if nothing is done. I guess the national media here in the
U.S.A. ran out of stuff so in 8 seconds of inspiration for the masses it is a
headline for today anyway but them again, I think I heard it is on 60 minutes tonight as some form of profound new discovery!
Actually, this problem is accelerating due other factors in the U.S.A., not just antibiotics, due to all of the alternatives to our hospitals they now house once the very sick, patients unable to fight the infections.
O.K., I know little about healthcare but the whole “doom and gloom” never did much for me and it turns out I am not alone, stuck in a silo near you are the answers, some of them are pretty impressive and there is a way to share all of these known processes with all healthcare professionals in California by encouraging the California Department of Public Health(CDPH) to host some form of “Database of Best Practices for the Prevention of HAI”, here is the first one with a really impressive 7 years without a CenterLine Associated Bloodstream Infection(CLABIS)---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JbNIhubCg
The CDPH has a pretty good HAI resources section and getting better all the time
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/hai/Pages/default.aspx
If you have any “best practice” you think would be an asset send it here---
Jorge.Palacios@cdph.ca.gov
Here is a very promising program currently underway featuring collaboration between the University of California Medical System and Anthem Blue Cross—
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2012/11/14/uc-anthem-blue-cross-health-care-focus.html
Even more, here is California’s “Let’s get healthy California” program—
http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Pages/HealthCalTaskforce.aspx
The good news is that the currently funded surveillance system at the CDPH, provided a single process for the prevention was practiced on a large scale, could be used to do P.D.C.A. (Plan, DO, Check, Action) rather than focus on penalizing poorly preforming facilities utilizing one of the thousands of indigenous processes responsible for tens of thousands of deaths annually in the state of California!
ps: couple of more happy customers at the tree nursery courtisy U.S. Peace Corps! A friend, many years ago, told me of folklore, "only three things you can do will survive you, write a book, have a kid and plant a tree", pretty cool watching this stuff!
More culture from Africa, you rarely see a kid without a smile, not an Xbox in the place!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iK82NkybOk
Actually, this problem is accelerating due other factors in the U.S.A., not just antibiotics, due to all of the alternatives to our hospitals they now house once the very sick, patients unable to fight the infections.
O.K., I know little about healthcare but the whole “doom and gloom” never did much for me and it turns out I am not alone, stuck in a silo near you are the answers, some of them are pretty impressive and there is a way to share all of these known processes with all healthcare professionals in California by encouraging the California Department of Public Health(CDPH) to host some form of “Database of Best Practices for the Prevention of HAI”, here is the first one with a really impressive 7 years without a CenterLine Associated Bloodstream Infection(CLABIS)---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JbNIhubCg
The CDPH has a pretty good HAI resources section and getting better all the time
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/hai/Pages/default.aspx
If you have any “best practice” you think would be an asset send it here---
Jorge.Palacios@cdph.ca.gov
Here is a very promising program currently underway featuring collaboration between the University of California Medical System and Anthem Blue Cross—
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2012/11/14/uc-anthem-blue-cross-health-care-focus.html
Even more, here is California’s “Let’s get healthy California” program—
http://www.chhs.ca.gov/Pages/HealthCalTaskforce.aspx
The good news is that the currently funded surveillance system at the CDPH, provided a single process for the prevention was practiced on a large scale, could be used to do P.D.C.A. (Plan, DO, Check, Action) rather than focus on penalizing poorly preforming facilities utilizing one of the thousands of indigenous processes responsible for tens of thousands of deaths annually in the state of California!
ps: couple of more happy customers at the tree nursery courtisy U.S. Peace Corps! A friend, many years ago, told me of folklore, "only three things you can do will survive you, write a book, have a kid and plant a tree", pretty cool watching this stuff!
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