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You need to get in conversation with a Human Resource Director at a local hospital. They can help you with the process. I know California is short of nurses and should encourage you to stay.

i do not know anything about either facility. ****** i would be glad to discuss options in our area. i could also give you the name of good facilities in georgia or florida.

Tulane was one of the few hospitals successfully evacuated in a relatively timely manner thanks to their HCA connection. HCA has now offered their helecopters for other non-affiliated facility evac. Initially HCA was criticized as they went "outside the plan". A plan is great, but when it is not working, it is time to change the plan. The state of the disaster here far exceeded the state of the emergency response. This rescue effort was a national disgrace. We were in Monroe with hundreds of beds available and south Louisiana was being told the hospitals were full to capacity. We received calls from hospitals in NO asking for help. We were told everything was in control and being handled in a coordinated manner. Two days later those hospitals were standing on the roof begging CNN for help.

:) The rapid response team is not just a lamebrain management initiative. The rapid response team concept was born out of the IOM report on needless deaths in healthcare. The info below is right of the IHI website referred to by another poster: Institute for Healthcare Improvement The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization driving the improvement of health by advancing the quality and value of health care. Health care is a highly complex system with many broken parts. The good news is that for every broken part in our system, there are remarkable examples of excellence-organizations that have overcome enormous obstacles to redesign the way patient care is delivered. Unfortunately, these examples are too few. As the Institute of Medicine (IOM) declared in 2001, in words that still ring true, "Between the health care we have and the care we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm." Health care does not yet reliably transfer best-known science into action, and processes frequently fail, despite the best intentions of a dedicated and highly skilled workforce. Our system, which intends to heal, too often does just the opposite-leading to unintended harm and unnecessary deaths at alarming rates. 100,000 Lives IHI and other organizations that share our mission are convinced that a remarkably few proven interventions, implemented on a wide enough scale, can avoid 100,000 deaths over the next 18 months, and every year thereafter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that two million patients suffer hospital-acquired infections each year. ( And guess what....most of these are from healthcare workers who do not wash their hands or follow appropriate aseptic technique) The US spends the most money on health care of all (advanced) industrialized nations [1], but it performs more poorly than most on many measures of health care quality [2]. The 100,000 Lives Campaign aims to enlist thousands of hospitals across the country in a commitment to implement changes in care that have been proven to prevent avoidable deaths. Deploy Rapid Response Teams...at the first sign of patient decline Deliver Reliable, Evidence-Based Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction...to prevent deaths from heart attack Prevent Adverse Drug Events (ADEs)...by implementing medication reconciliation Prevent Central Line Infections...by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps called the "Central Line Bundle" Prevent Surgical Site Infections...by reliably delivering the correct perioperative care Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia...by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps called the "Ventilator Bundle" ========================= Very similar to the Leap Frog Group, this group is trying to guide healthcare providers to adopt strategies with a basis in scientific methods and proven outcomes. Basically, this group has studied practice in facilities who are generating better outcomes than the rest of us to determine what is it they are doing to make a difference. In turn, they are asking all of us to implement these initiatives. :balloons: