HSURC Commission: Another Study, Another Dump

HSURC Commission:
Another Study, Another Dump

Nipawin - November 2, 2000

relevant research
Our incompetent reductionist health researchers are again telling us what is the truth with the

current hospitalization of psychiatric patients, and at the same time they want to have more

research money to either confirm or reject their previously found truths. One thing I want to

make clear before we laugh at this additional two year study by the Health Services Utilization

and Research Commission (HSURC), is that you cannot have a relevant research when the

health care system experiences a lack of acute beds, a lack of long term beds, a lack of

medical specialists, a lack of doctors, a lack of nurses, a lack of proper equipment, a lack of

health care workers in general, a lack of home care programs, a lack of administrative

accountability, a lack of everything else.

short hospital stays
So, within this health care gambling casino, our HSURC's researchers have concluded

another useless study stating that more than 80 per cent of the days patients spend in

hospital psychiatric wards are unnecessary⁽¹⁾. Laurie Thompson, who heads the big brains

at HSURC, has stated "the study showed that many mental health patients can be

effectively treated with short hospital stays followed up by community services."

follow-up study
Thompson says the findings are enough to prompt his organization of big brains to call for

new guidelines of how mental health patients are treated in Saskatchewan. And HSURC

chair Liz Harrison has added she "hopes to do a follow-up study to examine the reasons

for the unnecessary hospital stays."

these guidelines
To appreciate the rooted incompetence of these HSURC's researchers, Yorkton psychiatrist

Dr. Mirchand has stated that the definition of appropriate use of beds 'is OK if you are a

researcher, but not if you are on the front lines. Unless you order me not to admit, I'm

not going to follow any of these guidelines⁽²⁾."

I wonder if this research commission reinforces its state of psychiatric organizational

dementia with the Carver's Policy Governance® model⁽³⁾.

-----------References/Endnotes:

List of articles by Mario deSantis

1.
-
Study casts doubt on mental health treatment in Saskatchewan, CBC Saskatchewan, October 31, 2000

2.
-
Psychiatric patients 'taking up spaces' in acute care, by Jason Warick, October 31, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

3.
A first impression of the Carver's Policy Governance® Model, by Mario deSantis, September 18, 2000

HSURC Commission: Another Study, Another Dump

Nipawin - November 2, 2000

relevant research	Our incompetent reductionist health researchers are again telling us what is the truth with the
	current hospitalization of psychiatric patients, and at the same time they want to have more
	research money to either confirm or reject their previously found truths. One thing I want to
	make clear before we laugh at this additional two year study by the Health Services Utilization
	and Research Commission (HSURC), is that you cannot have a relevant research when the
	health care system experiences a lack of acute beds, a lack of long term beds, a lack of
	medical specialists, a lack of doctors, a lack of nurses, a lack of proper equipment, a lack of
	health care workers in general, a lack of home care programs, a lack of administrative
	accountability, a lack of everything else.

*short hospital stays*	So, within this health care gambling casino, our HSURC's researchers have concluded
	another useless study stating that more than 80 per cent of the days patients spend in
	hospital psychiatric wards are unnecessary⁽¹⁾. Laurie Thompson, who heads the big brains
	at HSURC, has stated "the study showed that many mental health patients can be
	effectively treated with short hospital stays followed up by community services."

*follow-up study*	Thompson says the findings are enough to prompt his organization of big brains to call for
	new guidelines of how mental health patients are treated in Saskatchewan. And HSURC
	chair Liz Harrison has added she "hopes to do a follow-up study to examine the reasons
	for the unnecessary hospital stays."

*these guidelines*	To appreciate the rooted incompetence of these HSURC's researchers, Yorkton psychiatrist
	Dr. Mirchand has stated that the definition of appropriate use of beds 'is OK if you are a
	researcher, but not if you are on the front lines. Unless you order me not to admit, I'm
	not going to follow any of these guidelines⁽²⁾."

	I wonder if this research commission reinforces its state of psychiatric organizational
	dementia with the Carver's Policy Governance® model⁽³⁾.

-----------References/Endnotes:

	List of articles by Mario deSantis

1. -	Study casts doubt on mental health treatment in Saskatchewan, CBC Saskatchewan, October 31, 2000

2. -	Psychiatric patients 'taking up spaces' in acute care, by Jason Warick, October 31, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

3.	A first impression of the Carver's Policy Governance® Model, by Mario deSantis, September 18, 2000