Cordless telephones. Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Geriatric Care Services.

Paul D. Romary, Executive Director, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
Massachusetts
paul.romary at state.ma.us

Public Health Council
Massachusetts
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Please provide access to better telephones that are cordless telephones at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Geriatric Care Services.

Cordless telephones are needed at this time, now, today without further delay that can be more easily handled by Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Geriatric Care Services patients confined to bed.

.. Patients do not have bedside telephones at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Geriatric Care Services.

.. Telephone calls are diverted or discouraged by the Geriatric Care Services set up isolating the patients confined to bed.

.. Isolated from families and friends calls, it is to the detriment of patients' care, patients' healing and patients' recovery.

.. Resulting in longer hospital stays, this isolationg of patients confined to bed from keeping in contact by telephone with families and friends discourages patients and affects recovery.

.. Cellphones handsets are difficult for patients to adjust.

.. Dropouts of the cellphones signals interfere with conversations.

.. Cellphones have weak signals in that location in the building.

.. Relaying call back messages appears to be inconvenient or perturb some people at the 5 South desk by interfering with staff activities.

.. Apparently, the set up is inefficient and takes away from effective activities of personnel.

.. Cordless telephones use a landline.

.. Cordless telephones have better audio quality for Geriatric Care Services patients.


In 2007 assistive technologies are readily available for patients with disabilities to communicate more effectively.


Advocate for changing the organizational culture of Geriatric Care Services and improving LSH !


Cc:
Paul D. Romary, Executive Director, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
Massachusetts
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paul.romary at state.ma.us

Public Health Council
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linda.hopkins at state.ma.us

John M. Auerbach, Chair
Commissioner, Department of Public Health
Massachusetts
john.auerbach at state.ma.us

Helen R. Caulton-Harris
Director, City of Springfield Division of Health and Human Services
Non-Health Care Provider Appointed from list of 3 nominations from the Massachusetts Public Health Association
hcaulton at springfieldcityhall.com

Harold Cox, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Public Health
List of Heads of nonpublic school of public health or their recommendation
hcox at bu.edu

Miche`le David MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Co-Director of the Boston Medical Center Haitian Health Institute
List of Heads of nonpublic schools of medicine or their recommendation
michele.david at bmc.org

Muriel Ruth Gillick MD, Staff Physician, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Associate Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Boston
Provider of Health Services, Expertise in long-term-care management
muriel at drmurielgillick.com

Paul J. Lanzikos, Executive Director, North Shore Elder Services, Inc., Danvers
Non-Health Care Provider Recommended by the Secretary of Elder Affairs
to the attention of Paul J. Lanzikos in care of info at nselder.org

Philip C. Nasca MD, Associate Dean for Research
in the School of Nursing and
Professor of Epidemiology
at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health Dean or recommendation
pcn at schoolph.umass.edu

Lucilia Prates Ramos, Director, Massachusetts Medicare/Medicaid Outreach and Education Program, Elderly Services of Merrimack Valley, Lawrence
Non-Health Care Provider List of 3 persons nominated by "Health Care for All"
to the attention of Lucilia Prates Ramos in care of info at esmv.org

Jose' Rafael Rivera, Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist, Central Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities
LUK Crisis Center, Worcester
Non-Health Care Provider Appointed from list of 3 nominations from the Massachusetts Community Health Worker Network
jrivera at cmchc.org

Albert Sherman, Vice Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Medical School or designee
albert.sherman at umassmed.edu

Michael Wong MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and
Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston
Provider of health Services with expertise in home or community based care management
mwong at bidmc.harvard.edu

Alan C.Woodward MD, Past President, Massachusetts Medical Society
President of Emerson Hospital Emergency Physicians, Concord
Provider of Health Services, Expertise in acute care hospital management
awoodward at emersonhosp.org

Barry S. Zuckerman MD, The Joel and Barbara Alpert Professor of Pediatrics at
Boston University School of Medicine
Professor of Public Health, BU School of Public Health
Chief of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston
Provider of Health Services, Expertise in the practice of primary care medicine or public health nursing
bszucker at bu.edu
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