Mr. Steven Mathews October 2, 2014
California Nurses Association
Tri-city Healthcare District
4002 Vista Way
Oceanside, CA 92056
Regarding: September 25, 2014 Board of Directors Meeting,
TCHD
Dear Mr. Mathews,
Please allow me to
thank you and your membership for your input on issues vital to our community
and Tri-city Healthcare District(TCHD), I really appreciate it as a pro-bono
advocate for the prevention of healthcare associated infections in our
Veteran's hospitals.
In the eighteen
minutes of testimony presented by California Nurses Association(CNA) members I
learned more about TCHD than I have in the past year or so of attending
Honorable Board meetings.
Little do I know
about the healthcare industry but finding solutions in chaos is not unique to
the healthcare industry in my humble opinion.
Profound knowledge
gained for my advocacy is the passion expressed by CNA members for the well-being of the patient
regardless of circumstance.
Opportunity for
improvements, it was stated by one of your members that the current effort to
standardize nurse-patient interactions was unappreciated, much like our
industry, the very things which make us successful as machinists tend to work
against us in society. Lets say you have 300 staff members, at the end of every
patient engagement everyone agrees we will call the patient
"worthless", (process standardization and repeatability), verify for
conformance and check for results. The predictable results are a call for improvement,
revise the final comment to "Mr. or Ms. worthless" and check for
improvement. 300 staff members going in 300 directions in a highly chaotic
environment have produced measurable results at TCHD, when G.M. visited Japan
in the 80's, they did not find robots or massive tax incentives, they found a
better way of doing things.
Hopefully we will be
seeing more of the CNA at the Board meetings at TCHD in he future, the new
Efficiency and Effectiveness Initiative will require your collective input and
the results should provide a clear path for future investment by TCHD Board
members via the support of the CNA.
Once again, thank you
for your valuable time and input.
Sincerely,
Michael H. Slavinski continued
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cc:
Honorable Board of
Directors
Tri-city Healthcare
District
Ms. Katie Phelan
National Nurses Organizing Committee
Ms. Sharon Schultz, RN
Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Clinical Director, TCHD
San Diego office,
California Nurses Association
Jorge Palacios
Healthcare Associated Infections Program
Center for Quality Care
California Department of Public Health
Kristy Aylett
Communications Specialist
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
ps Here is the actual meeting on September 25, 2014, part one and part 2, you will see the California Nurses Association members advocating in part 2. You will see me advocating for the proposed Initiative for quality and efficiencies, I was a little surprised the Honorable Board seemed to know nothing about it or why there was not a broad base of support for it, but hey, they do have public support!
ps Here is the actual meeting on September 25, 2014, part one and part 2, you will see the California Nurses Association members advocating in part 2. You will see me advocating for the proposed Initiative for quality and efficiencies, I was a little surprised the Honorable Board seemed to know nothing about it or why there was not a broad base of support for it, but hey, they do have public support!
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