Deborah
Burger, R.N. March 29, 2015
Co-President
California
Nurses Association
2000
Franklin Street
Oakland, CA
94612
Re: Workplace safety, Healthcare Associated Infections
Dear Ms. Burger,
Thank you and your
entire staff and membership of the California Nurses Association(CNA) for all
that you do for others, especially our Veteran’s, I really appreciate it!
As a pro-bono advocate
for the prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections(HAI) in our Veteran’s
Hospitals I signed your petition to support the California Nurses Association effort
to gain proper protection for healthcare workers concerning Ebola protection
nationwide.
Ebola is no longer in the headlines, last week I heard our
local hospital board discuss the catastrophic consequences here in California of
a reported(negative) Ebola case , perhaps some of the panic could have been alleviated
should the proper protection been available?
As a pro-bono advocate
for the prevention of HAI in our Veteran’s Hospitals I supported the successful
organizing of our local Veteran’s Hospital, the impact of a collective voice
should improve the situation in my humble opinion.
Also, the correlation of patient to R.N. has not escaped the
attention of my advocacy, thank you for that as well.
Much like Ebola, in my humble opinion, HAI does not make the
headlines very often, unlike Ebola, HAI , a preventable set of diseases, will
needlessly cost thousands here in the state of California their life or limb
this year, next year and every year after should it remain an acceptable cost
of poor and very dangerous practices at our healthcare facilities, some of
which in understaffing.
How to help our
Veterans, awareness is the key, the Association of Critical Care Nurses has set
the standard for websites and focus.
The California Department of Public Health(CDPH), at times, has
been an industry leader, supporter and resource for the prevention of HAI and
your link to it included in your RN resource page is much appreciated. The Honorable Governor has also commented on the catastrophic
fiscal damage caused by HAI but unfortunately the lack of input concerning the
resent HAI outbreak at U.C.L.A. medical highlighted the conflict of interest
between the UC medical system and the CDPH. In my humble opinion, the CDPH is
responsible for the prevention of preventable diseases, not protecting state
assets, There efforts concerning the prevention of HAI have been dormant for a while
now and I believe the CAN membership may well pay a price for their dormancy on
the issue.
As noted, the CNA is
pushing for positive change in our healthcare system and hopefully you
will continue to do so and should the CNA take a leadership role in the prevention
of HAI, as a veteran, a rate payer and a tax payer, I would appreciate it very
much, once again, “thank you”!
Best regards,
Michael H. Slavinski
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