Saturday, September 27, 2014

California Nurses Association, Tri-city Medical District and a bright future!


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                                        continued on page 2






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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/


   

 

 

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