5's for patient safety!

Mr. Palacios, thought you might be interested in this as more public support for your efforts!

Dear Ms. Fraser,

Thank you Ms. Fraser for highlighting a critical issue, the fact that it was posted in the U.T. is most heartening. My wife and I just moved back here to Vista, northern San Diego County, good to know there is something in that paper other than the “Filner Headlock”.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/5-steps-create-culture-patient-safety/2013-10-17?goback=%2Egmp_1854742%2Egde_1854742_member_5797068599990444034#%21

 You have to choose between the L.A. Times and the U.T., which absorbed the North County Times so we get the L.A. Times delivered daily and the U.T. on the weekends for $20 a year. Here is what inspired my advocacy, “hai-five” dedicated to the Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections(HAI) in our Veteran’s Hospitals:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/23/business/la-fi-hospital-infections-20110823

And now the U.T. kicks out this article, cool stuff, I guess I forgot to mention my wife was a bean counter for Coply News services, they owned the U.T. back in the day.

 According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services all forms of HAI are preventable, the answers are buried deep in a silo near you, a hospital is California has not had a Centerline Associated Bloodstream  Infection  (CLABSI) in nearly eight years, thousands in California will lose their life this year needlessly due to CLABSI.

 Currently my advocacy is highlighting the efforts of the California Department of Public Health(CDPH) to develop a “Database of Best Practices for the Prevention of HAI” to be available and improved by all healthcare professionals worldwide, feel free to contact the CDPH via Mr. Palacios, feel free to use my password, “freedomofinformationact”:

Jorge.Palacios@cdph.ca.gov

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/hai/Pages/default.aspx

Once again, thank you Ms. Fraser for making my day, the “5 steps to create a culture of patient safety” is pretty much the answer from what I have found out over the past couple of years, all this for a few old Jarheads. Not too sure what they think of my efforts up at the CDPH, leaves me to assume they have a good sense of humor!

“hai-five”                                http://h-a-i-5.blogspot.com

Michael H. Slavinski                     

 

Cc:  Jorge Palacios, C.D.P.H. Healthcare Associated Infections

"If we can improve the quality of care, that will translate into lower cost," Anthem President Pam Kehaly said. "These are real dollars”

 

p.s. The picture, "good by wine country"

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Dear Ms. Hansten,

Once again, thank you so much for directing my advocacy for the prevention of Healthcare Associated infection(HAI) to the good work of the Washington State Hospital Association(WSHA) concerning patient safety.

http://www.wsha.org/partnershipforpatients.cfm

 While still digesting what the program is and yes, so far I am really impressed by many aspects of the presentation, I would like to exploit the opportunity to ask the California Department of Public Health(CDPH) to at least offer a link to the good work of the WSHA concerning patient safety. In this case my advocacy would start in Governor Browns office with an emphasis on improved patient safety and healthcare efficiencies, emphasized in his “Let’s Get Healthy California” taskforce:

http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17526

 Your offer of contact information for experts in the program perhaps  would be a big help for little do I know about healthcare and as far as the CDPH goes, on its own it is a substantial entity but where it is housed and the public, private and philanthropic organizations surrounding it, well, Darth Vader on his best day could not build something that massive, it is going to take me a few years to even understand how it functions. All this to help out a few old jarheads.

 Once again, thank you for your valuable time and all that you do concerning patient safety, I really appreciate it! Healthcare has to change, all of these great programs, most redundant, in my opinion, are nowhere near their potential, standardize the “known” and commit more resources to pushing past the known, at least that is my opinion.

Best regards,

Michael H. Slavinski