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I think an immediate result of this law is that the state will be
overwhelmed with investigations, and will not be able to complete the
process within 45 days, as required in this law. They have no idea what they
are getting into.

Tim 
J.T.Deppe, M.D., F.C.C.P. 
Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine 
Johnson Memorial Hospital 
Franklin, IN 46131 
depjt48 at msn.com 

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Yogi Berra

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Subject: [ccm-l] Never 27 Law Watch

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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