Deborah Burger,
R.N. July 26, 2015
Co-President
California Nurses
Association
2000 Franklin
Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Re: Efficient and
safe Healthcare,
Dear Ms. Burger,
Once again thank you for all that you and the
entire membership of the California Nurses Association (CNA) does to help
others, as well as our Veterans.
In my humble opinion the California Nurses
Association has recognized the correlation between staffing levels and safe and
efficient healthcare. Educating your
members and supporting proper staffing levels has helped improve safety and
reductions in healthcare associated infections(HAI), a set of preventable and
often lethal diseases impacting not only patients but your membership as well.
Large scale budget
cuts are on the table and the historic tactics of the U.S. Veteran’s Affairs(VA)
leaves little room for innovative solution to large scale improvements:
Scientific methodology does
not seem to be part of the equation, I have little confidence the VA will be
investing in improvements that are underway in other healthcare facilities here
in California, and I am advocating for the CNA to do your best to highlight
what is possible rather the just accepting the inevitable for our Veteran’s.
Apparently the VA has been listening to grievances from organized
labor in a basement somewhere in the D.C. area, hopefully the CNA is addressing
the issue, a critic I am not and I will say no more.
However uncomfortable my
advocating for the prevention of HAI in our Veteran’s hospitals may be, The CNA
has the ability to influence change on many levels in my humble opinion and
should do so as your profession mandates, I do not.
Once again, thank you and your
entire staff for all that you do for others, I really appreciate it!
Sincerely,
Michael Slavinski
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