Can public agencies help educate the patient in an efficient manner?

Diana S. Dooly,                   Draft  11/3/13

Secretary

California Department of Public Health

 

Re: Opportunity to enhance efforts of the California Department of Public Health’s Healthcare Associated Infections(HAI) program.

 

Dear Secretary Dooly,

 Please allow me to thank you for all that you and your office do for the wellbeing of all California citizens, I really appreciate it.

At this time my humble advocacy for the prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections(HAI) in our Veterans Hospitals has identified an opportunity to enhance the excellent work currently underway at the California Department of Public Health’s(CDPH) HAI program.

 Due to the CDPH’s being a public agency and its relationships to private, philanthropic and public health organizations it is rapidly becoming premier resource portal for the prevention of HAI in the world. Having access to real-time monitoring would also place the CDPH in a potential position of leadership of large scale process improvement hopefully leading to standardized and efficient processes.

 All forms of HAI, according to the U.S. Department of Public Health and Human Services, are preventable and should be treated as any other preventable disease with the largest contributor, as with the rest of healthcare, being a well-educated patient.

 Technically, the CDPH’s HAI program is second to none, user friendly and inspirational to the non-healthcare consumer like myself, it is not.  Please review the great done by the Washington State Hospital Association(WSHA) concerning HAI,  should I advocated for the State of California to develop a completely redundant portal? My understanding is that U.S. Department of health and Human Services funds were in part responsible for the development of the site,

 Thousands of citizens in California will needlessly lose their lives or be seriously injured by HAI this year, preventing HAI has been accomplished in many facilities in California, at this time I am advocating for the CDPH to include a link to the good work of the WSHA on their current HAI website as a practical starting point for patient interest.

 Once again, than you and your staff for what you do and especially for your efforts concerning “Lets get Healthy California”.

Best regards,                                                              http://h-a-i-5.blogspot.com

Michael H. Slavinski

 

Honorable Governor Edmond G. Brown Jr.

The Great State of California

Honorable California Senator Ed Hernandez

Chair, Committee on Health Care

Honorable  California Senator Mark Wyland

Honorable California Senator William W. Monning

Honorable California Assembly member Rocky  J. Chavez

Honorable California Assembly member Katcho Achadjian

Ms. Pam Kehaly

President, Anthem Blue Cross

 

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."

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