The newly formed patient safety committee at DRMC has issued a survey for all associates to fill out related to patient safety issues in the hospital.
It is IMPERATIVE that every associate complete one of these surveys. This is an opportunity to anonymously indicate your exact working conditions.
Several questions that I feel are important:
"We have enough staff to handle the workload"
"Staff in this unit work longer hours than is best for patient care"
"We work in 'crisis mode' trying to do too much, too quickly"
"Hospital administration provides a work climate that promotes patient safety"
" The actions of hospital administration show that patient safety is a top priority"
There is a stack of surveys located on the table outside the cafeteria along with a box to place the completed survey. The committee is accepting these thru Sept. 17th.
Let your concerns be heard!
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Could someone give me the names of local lawyers who specialize in suing this hospital? We are from out of town and desperately need advice. Just give nme a few names, and I'll do my work from there. From our experience in the hospital, I feel certain more then one lawyer much be making a living off suing the place.
Many thanks!
What is wrong with you? I'm sure that if your experience was that bad and warranted a lawyer then you would be having no trouble finding one. I suggest you give up and by all means feel free to seek care elsewhere. We don't want your kind anyway.
Ahh, a real Danvillian speaks out! The poor guy needs a lawyer and asks a very sensible question, and you respond by saying you don't want his kind. His kind, i suppose, are people who like to have good care when they pay for it????
One good lawyer is Louis Abreu, and the Gardner firm in Martinsville is said to be very skilled in suing dumps like this.
That's a start.
Pls excuse the idiot who says we don't need your kind around here. We need more people like you who will speak out and sue the blazes out of these shysters.
Excellent queston. My family has used Glenn Berger in Altavista. He is great at getting strong settlements and wastes very little of your time. I hear Abrew is good, but I suggest you try Berger.
Pat Sharpe is the guy to go to from my stanpoint. I also here John Light is very good.
Glen Berger in Altavista is a pit bull and will fight tooth and nail for you.
Thanks for the suggestions on lawyers. This is just what we need to get started finding which one suits us best.
Keep up the good work on this blog. It's your only hope for ever finding a decent solution.
Okay, but for most of us the agony of this hospital doesn't require a lawyer. It just requires that every patient bring someone as a care-giver--and don't forget the disinfectant for the bathroom.
Frankly, I resent the suggestion that every patient needs to bring disinfectant for the bathroom.
For sure, no one should be in this hospital without a loved one to sit and provide the needed non-medical care.
But our bathrooms are NOT that bad. I agree some of the ones in the public areas are atrocious, but not in the patient rooms.
Maybe they are not "that bad," but I think every patient family SHOULD bring disinfectant. I don't think the public is ware of the ravages that can be caused by coming in contact with bodily fluids.
Keep it up it (cleaning the bathrooms) and you'll contract something that you'll never get rid of, complain to the "O" FREQUENTLY and it might improve or better yet go to a nonprofit that takes care of patients .
Okay John Q Public...how many ACTUAL "bad" bathrooms have you seen in patient care areas? How many have you actually seen in the public areas of DRMC ? And, if you did come across any, did you have the respect for yourself or your fellowman to ask someone at DRMC to address the situation at that time?
When you are screaming your head off to find someone who can insert a tube properly, you hardly stop to complain about a toilet.
Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
I can tell you this. The woman in the room with my mother puked all over their bathroom and NOBODY WOULD CLEAN IT UP!!!!!!! After we got it cleaned up, a lady down the hall sitting with another patient gave us disinfectant. That'd ONE example, and that's enough for us.
I was there one day when someone had vomited on the public phone in the ER area. I mentioned it and they blocked it off but I did not see anyone clean it up.
Omygod! I've seen vomit on the phone booths. Horrible!
correction--not on a booth, but on the phone itself in the little set-back cubicle. Disgusting.
You shoulda seen the toilet in my daddy's room. The gentelman in the next bed had somthin wrong where he coudnt use the bedpan right and he soyled the bed and floor and everthing and his childrun had to clean it all up. I was glad he didnt use the toilet.
A health question: If an ill person has vomited on a telephone receiver, can another person pick up a disease by using that phone and breathing in some of the germs that might be left on the receiver even after it has been wiped clean? That really is a problem, and it would be useful to know the answer.
Excellent question! I wondered the same thing this week when I used one of the public phones down there. It looked clean, but I wondered.
My aunt is in healthcare, and she has always been suspicious of public phones. I don't think anyone should take chances on using phones that have been vomited on--at DRMC or anywhere else.
Come on, now. Germs don't jump. They don't have legs.
With all the cell phones out there no one should have to use a public phone. I know staff will tell you that cell phones will interfere with the monitors, BULL. The technology in cell phones is so advanced that they do not interfere with monitoring equipment, unless you still have one of those bag phones from 1980. True, germs don't jump-up and bite you but you are about your ear and mouth on a phone that you do not what has seeped into those little holes in the receiver. Think about it?
There are a lot of diseases that are airborne
I know a sort of nutty lady who in public wears one of those mouth/nose covers, and she puts Listerine on it. She claims it keeps her from getting colds and worse. Can this possibly be true?
There was a recent report that CDMA TDMA and GSM phones can and will corrupt medical monitoring devices( on yahoo news)
Even with vomit in them?
What on earth is all this about vomit and phones??????
Read the string. The filth in the hospital concerns people.
"I know a sort of nutty lady who in public wears one ......."
Won't work...Listerine is alcohol based and as soon as the alcohol dissipates that's it.
The mask would block some larger germs (from inhalation) but only an N95 mask could stop pretty much everything.
WHAT TYPE OF TUBE NEEDED TO BE INSERTED BY A NURSE???
NG tube for one,rectal tube, there are more.
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