April 23, 2012
Draft!
Perhaps it is good to show how my advocacy for the reduction
or eradication of H.A.I. (Hospital Associated Infections) unfolds on paper. The
communications always start out with an idea, in my case, are our veterans
getting taken care of and how to help them out. Modern communications only
allow less than one page, preferably one half page, to get your point across and
not lose your audience over the years.
The kicker is that I
do not have a personal “H.A.I. horror story” although there seems to be no
shortage of those on the web, just trying to help out a few old "jarheads"! There just might be an easier way, fixing the entire medical industry, compared to ten years of continus warfare, just a token of my appreciation!
Last but not least,
how do you advocate in a positive manner with the goal of supporting those who
help others?
Perhaps the only
connection with the medical industry is that we do manufacture components for
ventilators in our humble machine shop and the stunning revelation via the L.A.
Times of the of the opportunities to improve patient safety with very basic
procedures. The attitude express by Ms. Pam Kehaly, President, Anthem Blue
Cross, of the relationship of quality of patient care and costs was
instrumental in inspiring my advocacy as practical and necessary as a business
owner, a taxpayer and a veteran.
The new national health care law does address some of the issues, that I believe is where the "Patient Safety" part comes from but when you look into H.A.I., there is not a real good reason why it even exists in my opinion, the science has proven the point beyond question, the economic view, Ms. Kehaley pretty much put the exclaimation point on that one.
Ok, this time I am
going to challenge myself, I think in the past I made a commitment to stay as
positive as possible so I will try my best to find a way to present some of the
facts to a highly educated audience and no, just like the last letter, I will
not know who to address the letter to until it is done, “how odd is that”?
Draft!
April 23, 2012
Please allow me
humbly thank the Honorable “someone” for your interest and efforts to reduce
and hopefully eradicate Hospital Associated Infections (H.A.I.) from our
nations Veteran’s and public hospitals.
As my advocacy for
H.A.I. develops some very disturbing facts are coming to the forefront on the
current efforts, least of which is the comments coming from the U.N. virtually
declaring that modern medicine will no longer have the capacity to combat
infections, we are feeding antibiotics by the ton to our livestock allowing for
all kinds of complications and perhaps the most frightening is the recent
discovery of antibiotic resistant organisms thriving in caves!
The challenge is
great, our hospitals, in my opinion and from what I have read, could actually
be a “safe zone”, the cures are not drugs or multimillion dollar machines, it seems that following written
instructions, washing of the hands and copper are most of the “cure”.
At this time my
advocacy is soliciting The Joint Commission (T.J.C.)
We now have “V.A.P. free” medical facilities in the U.S.A.
and now we have “central line-associated bloodstream infection free” medical facilities as well,
“WAY COOL”
So much for the “doom and gloom”!
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