Healthcare and Climate Change

In the Fierce Healthcare April 9 issue, there was an article where Obama addressed the issue addressing the impact of climate change on healthcare. This was a meeting that was held at Howard University. The main issue addressed was the rising climate changes and its effects on the poor, elderly, sick and children. The "Rising temperatures can lead to more smog, longer allergy seasons and an increased incidence of extreme -weather-related injuries." It is a good possibilities that all families will be affected. Obama charged healthcare professionals with developing new measures to prepare for this. The Department of Health and Human services and the CDC have teamed up to develop a "Health Care Facilities Toolkit" which is comprised of fact sheets and checklist and case studies that illustrates best practices. These issues come on the heels of guidelines that came from the White House in December. The main purpose is to create an infrastructure that would be resilient to the threat to climate change.  In my opinion the threat of not only climate change but the overall problem of addressing Healthcare practices in general and Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI). The roaming through the hospital as an employee to different departments will always pose a threat to internal infections and the possible spread of HAI's to patients that have compromised immune systems. There are still hidden threats that are not addressed one is  Medical Equipment Acquired Infections (MEAI) are growing. Infectious control departments for the most part do not address this or have data on it.