January 2.2013
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,
Once again, please
allow me to thank you and the entire staff at the Society of Healthcare
Epidemiology of America(SHEA) for all that you do for patient safety. Your
recent support as a resource for the Hospital Associated Infections(HAI)
program at the California Department of Public Health(CDPH) marks a much needed
first step in the creation of some form of “Database of Best Practices for the
Prevention of HAI” to be accessible to all healthcare professionals not only in
the state of California but worldwide in my opinion.
Your body of knowledge contained at SHEA is now available
for the recent agreement between University of California and Anthem Blue Cross
to develop improvements in healthcare efficiencies and patient safety. Added to
the great efforts by the staff at the CDPH the program should move the entire
healthcare community just that much closer to preventing HAI and preventing
needless loss of life and suffering to our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers
and Veteran’s.
With any luck and
advocacy these gains will be posted at the CDPH and made available to all
healthcare professionals to not only implement but to challenge and improve in
my opinion. The development of a “Database of Best Practices for the Prevention
of HAI” should yield a standardized process which will require a significant
investment but could be the basis for training all healthcare professionals in the
future, the return on investment would be exponential in most aspects,
including my advocacy, preventing HAI in our Veteran’s Hospitals.
Little do I know
about the healthcare industry but over the past year I have learned a lot about
the character of the professionals within allowing me the opportunity to offer
my support to those who help others, much like you and the entire staff and
membership at SHEA.
Sincerely,
Michael H. Slavinski http://h-a-i-5.blogspot.com/
The picture, our kid came home for the holidays after one and a half years in the bush in the U,S. Peace corps, mom is pretty happy and I got some pretty cool handmade swag for presents, even a "Bolga Basket", I guess I am pretty happy as well, we got some kayaking done at Morro Bay over the weekend, not much of a shopper myself, the picture is actually at the mall on State Street in Santa Barbara.
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