The number one thing any health and hospital organization can do to prevent the spread of infection is to hire top-notch cleaning staff. Alas, that would be too easy. For the price of 3-4 housekeeping staff, the Niagara Region – devastated by a runaway outbreak of C. Difficile – is hiring a … supervisor.
The troubled Niagara Health System will be getting a provincial supervisor to oversee its affairs.
Health Minister Deb Matthews made the announcement late Monday that steps are being taken in order to restore public confidence in the hospital system that has been plagued with merger issues and a deadly C.difficile outbreak.
The NHS serves 434,000 people in the Niagara area and is comprised of six hospital sites including those in Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Fort Erie and Welland.
Matthews said she understands everyone in Niagara was doing their best but in order for the hospital to move forward, a change is needed.
“I can’t ignore the fact that a very large segment of the public has lost necessary confidence in this hospital’s administration,” she said. “To make sure that NHS is on the right track, I think it’s important that there is a leader within the hospital system who reports directly to me.”
Do you know how much Clorox you can buy for the price of a government appointee? Unless this supervisor plans on donning rubber gloves and cleaning toilets in the affected hospitals, I see no benefit to this.
Will they hire an additional supervisor to ensure that the staff wash their hands after wiping their butts? I know that a local hopital staffer entered a restroom stall, did something, flushed, and left the men’s room without washing. The locals call the place, Agony(Allegheny) General Hospital. We also have Death(Ohio) Valley, Passaway (Passavant)…
Quite normal for the US. Our gracious leader in his ‘bailout’ said he was going to improve schools and make science and technology a priority. He gave the school system I don’t know how many million to hire ‘counselors’ (not teachers) When the bailout money runs out, the schools will have to fire teachers to keep their counselors who have, naturally jobs set in stone, where teachers are contracted yearly. Ain’t no end in sight either.