The "Commander and Chief" and the top 12

June 4, 2012

The Honorable President Barack Obama

The White House

Re: The eradication of Hospital Associated Infections (HAI) in our V.A. hospitals

Dear President Obama,

Please allow me to once again thank you and your staff for the efforts currently underway in the struggle to eradicate Hospital Associated Infections (HAI) in healthcare facilities across our nation.

 My advocacy led me to the news release issued by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses that the Critical Care Societies Collaborative, (CCSC), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded twelve facilities with:

“2012 Outstanding Achievement and Leadership award concerning H.A.I.”

HTTP://WWW.AACN.ORG/HAIAWARDS

My advocacy, to date, has been dedicated to “support those who help others” and a few Jarheads, the fact that the entire system will more than likely have to be fixed for me to achieve my goals, well, the fact that our local community hospital, Twin Cities, made the top 12 in the country is most encouraging!

 Please forgive me for my enthusiasm for the good work of the good people at Twin Cities Community Hospital and the thousands of professionals nationwide but I did promise Ms. Aylett, the author of the news release, that her work as well was going to the “Commander in Chief’s” desk!

 Once again, “thank you” to you and your staff, hopefully, some day the goal of “reduction” will be replaced with “eradicate HAI” and the “statistics”, in my opinion, these are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and Veterans. Please keep up the good work!

Respectfully,                                  

Michael H. Slavinski                          http://h-a-i-5.blogspot.com/  


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Honorable United Stated Senator Dianne Feinstein

Honorable United States Senator Barbara Boxer

Honorable Majority Whip United States Congressman Kevin McCarthy

Honorable Governor Edmond G. Brown Jr.

Honorable California Senator Sam Blakeslee

Honorable California Senator Ed Hernandez

Chair, Health Committee

Honorable California Assemblymember William W. Monning
Chair, Committee on Health Care

Honorable California Assemblymember Katcho Achadjian

Ms. Donna M. Beiter, RN, MSN

Director,

V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Systems

Mark R. Chassin, M.D., F.A.C.P., M.P. P., M.P.H.

President

The Joint Commission

Ms. Amy Panagopoulos

Senior Director

The Joint Commission

Ms. Pam Kehaly

President,
Anthem Blue Cross

Mr. Eddy W. Hartenstrin

Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, Los Angeles Times

President and Chief Executive Officer, Tribune Company



Ms. Mary Stahl, RN, MSN, CCNS-CMC, CCRN, ACNS-BC
President,
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Rick Lyons
Chief Executive Officer,
Twin Cities Community Hospital

Staff, Anthem Blue Cross

"If we can improve the quality of care, that will translate into lower cost," Anthem President Pam Kehaly said. "These are real dollars"!

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/23/business/la-fi-hospital-infections-20110823