Never 27 Law Watch

[Thomas Anthony Horan]

Dear Dr Mattox ,
I agree with you that the profession is responsible for the current regulatory environment. Can you give us your long list of reasons why the public will not be served by the law?
Tom Horan

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> Subject: 	Never 27 Law Watch
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> <<File: Never27LawWatch.pdf>><<File: ATT206928.txt>>
> Heidi Hotz of Los Angeles has shared with us the attached California  
> Statute.   It creates a list of 28 ADVERSE EVENTS occurring in a  hospital setting, 
> which must be reported to the STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT and then  a required on 
> site (?Manditory) review and judgment evaluation by a regulatory  and 
> reimbursement team.    
>  
> Regulatory harressment from the Regulatory Industrial Complex.    Society, 
> patients, families, hospitals, and health workers will NOT be better  served by 
> this bill for a long list of reasons.  However, consumerism in  health care is 
> now with us, and we must accept that this is only one of many  such 
> regulations to come.   
>  
> Such laws are being passed because we did not police ourselves internally,  
> as did the airline industry.  We needed to have an attitude of ZERO  tolerance. 
>   How many of our hospitals have patients who develop  nosocomial bed sores 
> (not present on admission) ?   How many doses of  medication are given with the 
> wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time, wrong patient,  etc.    One only has to 
> be a patient or have a family member that  is a patient to recognize that the 
> system is BROKEN.  
>  
> However, it is not just lack of attention to detail by the doctors and  
> nurses, it is our SYSTEM which is at fault, including the restrictive and  
> demeaning regulations, paper work, work hour restrictions,  etc.     Nurses cannot be 
> nurses anymore because they are  busy just keeping compliance records and 
> assuring numbers for the regulators and  JCAHO.    Then there are laws about nurse 
> patient ratios which  are impossible to fulfill because of the number of 
> total nurses available and  the low number in the que.    
>  
> I am very saddened by this California Law and would hope that the  California 
> Medical Association, California Hospital Association, California  Trial 
> Lawyers Association, etc. could join together to repeal this  law.   It is not in 
> the best interest of quality patient  care.     
>  
> But.........look for the name of your hospital and your name on the front  
> page of the Los Angeles Times.   
>  
> Thank you ACLU for helping pass this law.  
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