Our wound care program is a collaborative practice model designed to manage patient’s skin and wound care needs at home.

The program’s primary objective is to provide high quality, cost-effective treatment utilizing best practice standards, clinical practitioners specially trained in skin and wound care to tract wound progression and enhance patient/caregiver compliance.

The Wound Care Program was developed to enhance the physician care and treatment of homebound patients. Wound care, like all aspects of medical practice, has been affected by reimbursement systems designed to reduce the cost of patient care. To meet the demands, our clinicians provide:

• Comprehensive wound assessment that includes non-invasive Doppler evaluation, filament study for the loss of protective sensation.
  
• Risk profiling
  
• Integration of services necessary to manage the patient at home.

Wound and skin care program benefits:

Patient

• Facilitates active patient/caregiver participation in assessment and treatment process.
  
• Communicates and teaches, encourages patient focused solutions.
  
• Measures and assesses diabetic, arterial, venous and pressure ulcers, surgical incisions or any dermatological condition.

Clinical

• Enhances consistency and continuity of care.
  
• Provides objective, accurate data for documentation and outcome measurement.
  
• Assists in the ongoing monitoring of solutions by providing concise patient files.

Cost Effective

• Facilitates an effective, preventive approach to the tremendous financial and personal cost of skin breakdown.
  
• Enables comprehensive evaluation and monitoring, increasing patient compliance and success of solutions.