Jorge Palacios
February 9, 2014
California Department of Public Health (CDPH-CHCQ-HAI)
Re: Leadership & the Prevention of Healthcare Associated
Infections(HAI)
Dear Mr. Palacios,
Once again thank you
and all of the staff at the California Department of Public Health for the excellent
work you are doing concerning the prevention of Healthcare Associated
Infections(HAI), I really appreciate it!
My advocacy for the
prevention of HAI in our Veteran’s Hospitals has identified the fact that preventing
HAI in our entire medical system here in California will be the result highly
motivated healthcare staff members, custodian to CEO, executing a known process,
assuming a leadership role, up, down and 360 degrees around, in a professional
manor with real-time feedback from the C.D.P.H.’s current monitoring system and input form an
educated patient.
Recently I was involved in a dialog with healthcare professionals
concerning education of front line healthcare staff concerning leadership, their
assumption of the complexity involved in this educational process was
astounding so I sent them a link of the following flash card for the study of the
14 traits of leadership. Please follow up with the test part, our class we run
here at our humble business is to simply go around the class and ask each
associate to describe one trait and how it could be applied in decision making
out on the shop floor. The fact that you can take this decision making “grid”
home with you and become a better wife, husband, mother, father or fiend is a
byproduct beyond reproach.
The “known process” for the prevention of HAI, already
underway at the CDPH, much like the U.S.
E.P.A.’s Puget Sound Storm water runoff Best Management Practices, via the
freedom of information act, even a less than optimal process to be challenged
and improved worldwide, despite the simplicity the six-sigma experts will flock
to your “database”.
The educated patient,
if we can spend millions of dollars to teach our kids the value of washing
their hands, can we ask them to ask their healthcare provider if they did?
Preventing HAI, the
technology is there today, as per Ms. Pam Kehaly, Chief Executive Officer,
Anthem Blue Cross, it is a matter of “do we have the will”?
Once again, thank you
for your interest in my advocacy and all that you do to help others in the
Great State of California, I really appreciate it!
Michael H. Slavinski
"If we can
improve the quality of care, that will translate into lower cost," Anthem
President Pam Kehaly said. "These are real dollars”
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