Honorable Board of Directors, September
26, 2014
Tri-city Healthcare District
4002 Vista Way, Oceanside, CA
Dear
Honorable Board,
Thank you for all that you do for others, I
really appreciate it. The Board meeting on September 25, 2014 was unique in my
humble opinion, the participation of the California Nurses Association
hopefully will expedite the process of transforming Tri-city Healthcare
District(TCHD) into one of the top healthcare facilities in the country.
As challenging as it was, it is hopefully the
beginning of organized labor becoming a vested partner in the common goals of
all who support TCHD.
Soon the Board will be receiving real-time
analysis of the frequency and cost associated with Healthcare Associated
Infections, re-admissions, medical errors and Patient Satisfaction and from the
information presented to the Board, the numbers are substantial.
As you as a Board attempt to respond to these
losses(waste), as many other facilities have discovered, your efforts will be
futile without organized labor as a partner.
As uncomfortable as it may seem many of the
listed sources of waste are associated with understaffing which may explain why
your volume is going up but your profit is flat.
At the stated meeting I saw far more common
interest than contention and I do believe both sides witnessed the impedance to
constructive conversation by both ambush politics and an ivory tower approach
to leadership.
The California Nurses Association is very
unique as organized labor, their membership are highly educated, highly paid
and highly motivated to accomplish a compassionate mission in addition to being
able to articulate their needs as demonstrated at the meeting and due to all of
the turmoil in both Leadership and the C-suite in the recent past may well
explain their absence.
To see the beginning of this engagement gives
me hope of a bright future at TCHD, when the US Treasury sent its taskforce
into G.M. a few years ago, they were stunned to find a highly motivated
workforce committed to all of the modern process improvement techniques, they
are still there today as both owners and partners in a common goal in a highly
successful company.
Soon TCHD will be driven by numbers, honest
numbers that are the foundation of the Affordable Care Act and we need to stop
talking about penalties and start talking about waste.
Once again, thank you for your valuable time
and all that you do for others. The California Nurses Association is a start,
hopefully SEIU-UHW-west will follow.
Respectfully,
Michael H.
Slavinski
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Ms. Katie Phelan,
National Nurses Organizing Committee
Ms. Sharon Schultz RN
Chief Nursing
Officer, Chief Clinical Officer, TCHD
San Diego office
California Nurses Association
California Nurses Association, local TCHD
Jorge Palacios
Healthcare Associated Infections Program
Center for Quality Care
California Department of Public Health
Kristy Aylett
Communications Specialist
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
ps My advocacy for the Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections in our Veteran's Hospitals, due to my lack medical knowledge, rarely places me in a position to use clichés, well this is my bog and therefore my rules, "The proper tool for the proper job":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH27S1kTPkQ
The following, for those of you who live in North San Diego County, is some local footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NS5sbmqL9Q
The following is a is part of my day job, play the CMUR video, it a less uninteresting than the first video, we make all of the hardware, we do not make weapons, think of it more of the biggest X box your tax dollar can buy! Apparently, the training is all about "scanning", we make mounts for "lipstick" cameras, you will look through a mounted to the site and the camera is mounted perpendicular to the prism so the trainer can view where the operator is "scanning". Technically, we are not making weapons but we might be giving your kid get the jump on the bad guys! These products run on the same machines we make our ventilator components on.
http://www.tacticalmicro.com/
ps My advocacy for the Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections in our Veteran's Hospitals, due to my lack medical knowledge, rarely places me in a position to use clichés, well this is my bog and therefore my rules, "The proper tool for the proper job":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH27S1kTPkQ
The following, for those of you who live in North San Diego County, is some local footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NS5sbmqL9Q
The following is a is part of my day job, play the CMUR video, it a less uninteresting than the first video, we make all of the hardware, we do not make weapons, think of it more of the biggest X box your tax dollar can buy! Apparently, the training is all about "scanning", we make mounts for "lipstick" cameras, you will look through a mounted to the site and the camera is mounted perpendicular to the prism so the trainer can view where the operator is "scanning". Technically, we are not making weapons but we might be giving your kid get the jump on the bad guys! These products run on the same machines we make our ventilator components on.
http://www.tacticalmicro.com/
