VERY HOT NEWS! The California Medical
Association
supports Jeff Hardy's
"No Hidden Patient" design model
through a
resolution by their
33,000 members.
The resolucion reads: "Resolution 616a-06
"NO HIDDEN PATIENT MODEL" FOR HOSPITALS
RESOLVED: That CMA support the construction and renovation of hospitals
that assure good monitoring and visibility of patients, and leave it up
to the hospitals and their medical staffs to determine the best way to
achieve that goal."
"If a nurses'
aide hadn't walked in and found me, all my blood would
have drained
out of my incision and I'd probably be dead right now."
You
are watching "NO Hidden
Patient" a 3-Minute Webcast
Jeff
Hardy is a 35-year veteran hospital and healthcare futurist;
a pre-planning, planning and new hospital design consultant;
an architectural design review consultant; a management
operations consultant;
a featured writer for major healthcare associations and
trade magazines, and; a regular speaker on the healthcare
management operations and facility design circuit
(click About
Jeff for more
information)
Here are a fewHORROR
STORIESfrom reported incidents:
From
a mother in Georgia: "Today
would have been my daughter's sixteenth birthday,
but they left her alone after giving her lunch. She
choked on her food and died in a room where
no one could see her sometime before a nurse came
by to pick up her tray..."
From
"Sam", RN, Missouri, gero-psych unit nurse:
"... one of my patients could have died because
I almost didn't make it in time to help her. When
I finally arrived she was leaning
over the edge of the bed but she was too weak to pull
herself back up. She had dropped a magazine on the
floor. She has permanent
brain injury now."
From
"Maryanne" and "Wendy", Idaho,
'floor nurses':
"... they just fired one of our nurses for something
that wasn't her fault. Her patient pulled out his
tracheostomy tube and by the time we got the monitor
alert from the monitor station we got to him [exact
comment deleted] blood was coming
out of his tracheostomy incision and he was gurgling
and gasping and now he's brain dead."
From
"Mrs. T.", California, wife of the deceased:
"My husband died when a
nurse helped him to the toilet but then left him there.
When she returned later he was
lying on the floor in the bathroom where he had had
a heart attack."
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From
"Cathy" Clinical Nursing Officer, 400-bed hospital:
"Do you remember how 'Mothers Against
Drunk Driving' [MADD] radically reduced alcohol-related automobile
deaths and accidents? Your 'No Hidden Patient' idea is the
"MADD campaign" for hospitalized patients everywhere!
I wonder how many patient lives you will save. Like Candy
Lightner, the woman who started MADD you'll probably never
know..."
"NO
Hidden Patient" means that ALL hospitalized patients are
immediately visible, accessible and touchable
by trained medical and clinical staff
"NO
Hidden Patient"
means that
"Safety precedes Privacy"....
After "Patient Safety First" considerations, patients
can have complete privacy
"NO
Hidden Patient" means that
The "Nursing-Focused" work areas
support the needs of the
clinical nursing staff.
"NO
Hidden Patient" means:
Maximum Patient Safety where
NO Patient
is Hidden
from the caregiving staff
Like this one
Note: For privacy, confidentiality and respect,
patient room curtains
are drawn and all staff are not facing the camera
"NO
Hidden Patient" means:
No
more patient rooms, holding rooms
or waiting areas where the
Patients
are Hidden!
Like this one Note:
For privacy, confidentiality and respect we have smudged
out any and all recognizable people and signage
*
Jeff Hardy has no financial, contractural, business, partnership
or joint venture relationships with any architectural firm,
contractor, designer or any firm that would place him in a direct
or indirect conflict of interest position
...and
that's just the beginning...
"NO
Hidden Patient" ALSO means that anywhere
there are people who are sick,
injured or nearing the end, they will not be neglected
Anywhere...
not just in America...
ANYWHERE
IN THE WORLD!
Jeff
Hardy is a 30-year veteran, practicing new-facility planning
facilitator and management operations consultant. He is
not an architect. Within the healthcare industry he is
credited as the originator of:
the "NO
Hidden Patient"
hospital facility design model;
the "System-Based
Healthcare" national
healthcare model; and,
the "The NOW
Hospital", management
operations model --
all of which will be featured in a book currently slated
to be published by early November, 2007
Disclaimer:
To the best of our knowledge there are no reliable statistics
that identify the number of patients who have died or have
been harmed due to the bricks and mortar facility design
of a hospital. All statistics from medical errors and patient
safety failures have been extracted from coded data that
has been compiled following patient discharge or death.
The code books do not include a code for "death because
the nurse couldn't reach the patient fast enough because
the patient was at the far end of a hallway hidden from
view..." or, "death caused because the patient
fell out of bed before anyone could get to him fast enough..."
and so on. These are facility design errors that are not
the fault of the medical staff, the clinical nursing staff
or the ancillary caregiving staff.
Because we do not have any reliable statistics at
this time only anecdotes, experiences and comments
will be documented on this site. We want to hear and share
the stories of how hospitalized patient's lives have been
threatened due to facility design.
This
is a site for sore lives...
Patients should NEVER be hidden from nursing staff
NOTICE:
On Tuesday,
July 17, 2007
Jeff Hardy began
taking his
"BUILD NO HARM" campaign
to the mainstream media.
Here's why:
Our existing hospitals, our brand new hospitals and even our hospitals
that are being built right now have all been designed with
"Hidden Patient Rooms"
where hidden patients are
suffering or are being neglected
or feel isolated; in
a word "harmed"... and
some of them are even dying.
With the assistance of the mainstream media, Jeff is asking America
to join him on his "NO
Hidden Patient"
campaign.
"There should be NO
Hidden Patients Anywherein the World!"
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