California Nurses Association
November 30, 2014
National
Nurses Organizing Committee (HQ)
2000
Franklin Street
Oakland, CA
94612
T.
510-273-2200
F.
510-433-2790
Re: Success, congratulations, and the will to succeed
To whom it may concern,
As an advocate for
the Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) in our Veteran’s
Hospitals I would like to thank the California Nurses Association(CNA) for the
key role your staff and membership played in the successful organization of
labor at the Veterans San Diego Healthcare System, our Veteran’s here in San
Diego will certainly benefit from a unified voice in my humble opinion.
Thank you CNA for taking
a leadership role in the increased readiness and interest concerning potential Ebola outbreaks here in
the USA and the response from the Great State of California
As a non-medical
advocate, the powerful commitment to workplace and patient safety demonstrated by
the CNA gives me confidence of a bright future in healthcare in the USA. As an
advocate for the prevention of Healthcare Associated in our Veteran’s
Hospitals, the only option as an advocate for the prevention of a preventable
set of diseases is to support those who help others and the CNA being the
logical choice.
As demonstrated in the
Ebola outbreak, leadership in USA healthcare is not what it could be, the
Affordable Care Act is a good start concerning healthcare quality but at some
point healthcare quality has to become a priority, the cure will not be
eradicated by money, technology or legislation, HAI is not a “potential”
threat, it kills and maims tens of thousands here in California annually let
alone the unnecessary waste of tens of millions of tax dollars, concerning workplace
safety, those catastrophic numbers are well known to your membership as well as the US
Department of Labor.
The technology(best
practices) are already available, HAI is not an unknown threat and is
preventable “today” should CNA commit itself and its membership, something I
leaned in the US Marines, “a unit is only as strong as its weakest link”, the CNA
is obviously not a “weak link”, the educational level of the average RN would
place them as “officers”, “leaders”, and nothing I have observed lately both
nationally or at our community hospital would challenge the leadership
abilities of your membership.
How does this help
our Veteran’s, it already has, thank you CNA, I really appreciate it!
Sincerely,
Michael H. Slavinski
Cc: The Honorable United stated Senator Dianne Feinstein
"If we can
improve the quality of care, that will translate into lower cost," Anthem
President Pam Kehaly said. "These are real dollars”
