Comments on: The Need for Clean Hospitals http://www.leanblog.org/2007/11/need-for-clean-hospitals/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Happy Birthday Frank Gilbreth; Reducing Waste in Hospitals… Green is Lean — Lean Blog http://www.leanblog.org/2007/11/need-for-clean-hospitals/#comment-11372 Happy Birthday Frank Gilbreth; Reducing Waste in Hospitals… Green is Lean — Lean Blog Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:02:01 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2007/11/the-need-for-clean-hospitals/#comment-11372 [...] The idea of properly sterilizing supplies thought to be “single use only” isn’t mindless cost-cutting or corner cutting. We have to do things safely, of course. This isn’t the same as the cases where doctors were improperly re-using items like syringes, creating health risks for patients (as I wrote about in 2007). [...] [...] The idea of properly sterilizing supplies thought to be “single use only” isn’t mindless cost-cutting or corner cutting. We have to do things safely, of course. This isn’t the same as the cases where doctors were improperly re-using items like syringes, creating health risks for patients (as I wrote about in 2007). [...]

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.leanblog.org/2007/11/need-for-clean-hospitals/#comment-2918 Anonymous Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:23:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2007/11/the-need-for-clean-hospitals/#comment-2918 My husband had MRSA, which began on his leg in May. We knew what it was in July, but it took until November to get the doctors to listen, take a culture and actually treat the infection. The scars on his leg are a daily reinforcer of our mistrust of the medical establishment. My own MRSA was never diagnosed or treated and went away on its own. I hope. We were never treated as a unit, despite one doctor's observation that we were "probably passing the infection back and forth". <br/><br/>The last doctor he saw was an infectious disease "specialist". She poked at his open, suppurating lesions with her gloved finger, then turned around and tapped her findings onto her computer keyboard WITHOUT taking off her gloves! <br/><br/>I was a zoology major, trained in lab technique, so I knew taking your gloves off before turning away from a patient should be such ingrained behaviour she shouldn't have been able to *not* do it. She never noticed, even went back and poked some more into his lesions with her now keyboard-contaminated fingers. I almost fainted. My husband, an accountant, had to have all this explained to him. <br/><br/>After seeing this, I wouldn't set foot in that group practice's office, lest Thyphoid Mary had touched something. <br/><br/>Thank you for your necessary work. My husband had MRSA, which began on his leg in May. We knew what it was in July, but it took until November to get the doctors to listen, take a culture and actually treat the infection. The scars on his leg are a daily reinforcer of our mistrust of the medical establishment. My own MRSA was never diagnosed or treated and went away on its own. I hope. We were never treated as a unit, despite one doctor’s observation that we were “probably passing the infection back and forth”.

The last doctor he saw was an infectious disease “specialist”. She poked at his open, suppurating lesions with her gloved finger, then turned around and tapped her findings onto her computer keyboard WITHOUT taking off her gloves!

I was a zoology major, trained in lab technique, so I knew taking your gloves off before turning away from a patient should be such ingrained behaviour she shouldn’t have been able to *not* do it. She never noticed, even went back and poked some more into his lesions with her now keyboard-contaminated fingers. I almost fainted. My husband, an accountant, had to have all this explained to him.

After seeing this, I wouldn’t set foot in that group practice’s office, lest Thyphoid Mary had touched something.

Thank you for your necessary work.

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