December 07, 2004
Another event this afternoon
This one is one I'm promoting for work (yes, I accepted the NY job and started last week):
A group called The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) and the New York Business Group on Health (NYBGH) are hosting a meeting of the top decision makers in health care at the Harvard Club in New York City. The principal speakers at the event are physicians who have earned national recognition for their war against hospital infections. For more information please visit www.hospitalinfectionrates.org.
WHO: Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths; New York Business Group on Health; leading physicians; experts.
WHAT: A forum on preventing hospital infections
WHEN: December 7th, 2004, 2 – 4 pm
WHERE: The Harvard Club of New York, 27 West 44th Street, New York
The hook line for my press release was 'Infection-Ridden Hospitals Kill More Americans Than AIDS and Auto Accidents' so you know it's going to be interesting.
Update: Jeremy Schaap, of ESPN, whose father Dick Schaap died of an infection while in the hospital for hip-replacement surgery, will attend.
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Your going to a fundraiser to help prevent nosocomial infections. Damn! This topic is right up my alley.
It's great to see that their is an organization trying to raise money for this worthy cause. Although, I have to say it is an uphill battle to try to raise money for something that the general public knows very little about.
I've always thought that to effectively prevent nosocomial infections you would have to have independent contractors (infection control) at every hospital site. JHACO comes at announced time and checks up on everything giving hospitals time to cover themselves.
I can go into much more specific detail but I would like to keep my job.
Posted by: Lisa at December 7, 2004 12:02 PMCongratulations on your new job. I expect to see you post about more upper-scale bars from now on.
I agree with Lisa. Nosocomial infections are a growing problem and needs to be fixed.
Posted by: Jake at December 7, 2004 09:01 PM
