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Kaiser Workers Ask California Hospital to Halt Surgeries Over Equipment Contamination Concerns; RaDonda Vaught to Join Nurses on Healing Trip to Costa Rica · Becker’s Healthcare - Clinical Leadership Podcast

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Clinical Leadership Podcast.
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  Here's your industry news spree for Wednesday, June 7th. First,
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  over 70 employees at Kaiser Zion Medical Center in San Diego signed a
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  petition for the facility to pause surgeries due to concerns of potential
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  contamination of surgical traits.
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  A surgical tech says some of the trays have black, gray,
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  and brown particles of an unknown substance dusting inside.
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  There are also black, greasy smears of unknown,
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  but not surgically approved substance.
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  In a statement to the San Diego Union Tribune,
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  Kaiser mentioned its commitment to safe, quality, and timely care.
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  It also says,
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  it confirmed that all measures we are taking to clean process and transport
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  surgical equipment to our Zion Medical Center for use is safe and medically
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  appropriate.
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  Kaiser Dick confirmed that surgical instruments used at Zion were currently
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  being cleaned and processed at a San Diego Medical Center.
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  This is because it found an issue with its hot water tank and equipment.
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  Second,
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  a new report from the Leapfrog group shows racial disparities in rates of
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  adverse events continue even at hospitals with top safety ratings.
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  Leapfrog safety grades are recognized as the only hospital ratings program,
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  solely based on a hospital's ability to protect patients from preventable
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  errors, accidents, injuries, and infections. In a report published today,
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  researchers from Leapfrog and the Urban Institute say quote,
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  little is known about the association between hospital safety grades and the
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  delivery of safe care is specific to a patient's racial ethnic background or
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  insurance.
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  They also say No evidence indicates whether safer overall care is associated
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  with narrowing disparities in patient safety among patients with different
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  racial ethnic backgrounds or among patients with different types of insurance.
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  Their research shows that overall care is safer for all racial groups at higher
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  graded hospitals. However,
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  black and Hispanic patients are still at an increased risk of certain adverse
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  safety events compared to white patients. Even at hospitals graded A and B,
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  black patients are more likely to experience surgery related complications
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  across all hospital safety grades.
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  Black patients face significant higher risk of stage three and four pressure
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  ulcers.
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  Hispanic patients also experience a higher risk of sepsis and respiratory
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  failure after surgery.
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  Researchers say these differences are also significant at higher greeted
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  hospitals compared to those with private insurance patients covered by Medicare
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  or Medicaid experience higher rates of adverse safety events.
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  Third,
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  a woman is charged in Georgia for stealing the identity of a Florida nurse and
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  using the stolen nursing license to care for patients.
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  Carissa Laws was employed as a licensed nurse at Walton Community Services.
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  She cared for eight people with disabilities who needed care from a licensed
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  nurse. The report says she used the license number of a nurse in Florida.
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  The prosecutor also says, MS.
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  Laws admitted to practicing as a nurse in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania,
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  New Hampshire, Florida, Georgia, and New Mexico.
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  She has an active warrant for her arrest in Vermont and pending charges in
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  Florida after the judge denied her bond.
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  MS laws will remain in Cobb County Jail until trial
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  fourth.
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  Transplants from organ donors who drowned are linked to mold infections and
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  higher death rates between 2011 and 21.
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  The CDC D reports that over 4,000 organs from over 1000 drowned donors
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  were transplanted in patients. In a new study,
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  the agency looks at the outcomes of nine organ transplant recipients from three
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  drowned donors.
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  They found a total of four instances of patients who acquired invasive mold
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  infections around seven days after a transplant.
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  They subsequently died an average of eight days later.
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  In every instance of a patient having an invasive mold infection after a
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  transplant, the patient died.
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  While the results do not show broad or inclusive trends for all researchers,
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  say clinicians should note it,
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  fifth Redondo Bot will join nurses on a healing trip to Costa Rica. Ms.
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  Spa was convicted for a fatal medication error that created a national
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  conversation about patient safety culture.
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  Nurse Erica will be hosting the seven day trip with Miss Bot in September.
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  Nurse Erica is a hospice nurse, nurse advocate,
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  and social media influencer based in Las Vegas.
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  Registration closes at the end of July.
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  The trip costs a little under $2,500 per person.
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  As of today, seven spots are still open. Thanks for listening.
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