We are a comprehensive consulting service offering unparalleled excellence in skin, wound, diabetic, and ostomy management, ensuring positive outcomes and patient satisfaction with the treatment of acute and chronic wounds in the hospital, urgent care, skilled nursing, home health, and wound care clinic setting meeting the demands of today’s rapidly changing industry with practical guidance in highest standards of prevention, assessment, and treatment for greater efficiency, efficacy and sustained excellence in patient care.
Services Offered
Highly specialized Locum Tenens services to help your facility fill gaps in care or occupy vacant positions until a full-time provider can be found
What we can do to ensure excellence in the pressing regulatory, operational, and fiscal aspects of your Wound Care Program:
Develop comprehensive, evidence-based plans of care for patients with:
Diabetic wounds
Vascular wounds
Autoimmune wounds
Atypical wounds
Chronic non-healing wounds
Surgical wounds
Pressure Related Skin Injuries
Ostomies and Incontinence Associated Skin Conditions
Bariatric/Lymphatic Skin Management
Infectious/necrotizing wounds
Monitor wound progress and identify barriers to healing
Coordinate interdisciplinary care with surgeons, hospitalists, nursing staff, occupational and physical therapists, nutritionists, palliative care providers, and discharge planners
Provide support and education to ED, ICU, OR, PACU, NICU, Mother & Baby, Med Surg, Med Tele units staff
Work closely with materials management ensuring comprehensive, specialized product formulary
Perform quarterly Prevalence Studies in coordination with Quality Assurance team ensuring optimal outcomes due to prevention
Investigate root cause analysis of hospital-acquired injuries with quality/risk management team
Schedule ongoing in-servicing with vendors of skin and wound care products, support surfaces, NPWT, and DME
SNF 8-week Immersion Training for new Staff Development/Infection Prevention/Wound Care RNs
MDS and CMS requirements
State compliance requirements
Facility policies and procedures
Med B reimbursement
Weekly Wound Rounds
Education Benefits
Foster enthusiastic approach to skin assessments & wound care
Focus on initial admission skin assessment and recognition of patients at risk for injury
Ensure thorough understanding of the importance of prevention measures
Ensure competency with hospital formulary products
Provide on-going in-servicing to nursing staff on basics of wound treatment
Mentor Skin and Wound Care Champions
Teach about quality measures and the importance of compliance
Incorporate infection prevention into daily practice
Hospital Benefits
Improve patient care, safety and overall experience and satisfaction
Improve Inpatient Quality Indicators
Reduce surgical site infections
Reduce incidence of House Acquired Pressure Injuries
Reduce time for initial assessment of ED patients with wounds
Increase patient satisfaction scores
Reduce patient days institutionalized (LOS)
Reduce patient days not in the community
Reduce lost work days
Prepare patient for successful continuum of care thereby reducing re-admission rates
Reduce CMS penalties and fines