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Overview

Wound care has certainly evolved from the 'traditional' gauze dressings to modern treatments such as; moist wound healing, collagen products, silver antimicrobials, growth factors, dermal scaffolds, bioengineered tissue, topical negative pressure and hyperbaric oxygen.

But wound care can easily be lost within a hospital system. Wounds exist across almost all departments...some wounds are acute, some are chronic...some are healing as expected and others are not healing or deteriorating. And standards of care have rapidly changed, creating certain clinical and legal issues.

With so many different touch points for wound care responsibility across a large organization, it's common to find hospital administration not realizing the true impact of caring for skin and wound care issues. These are difficult issues to manage.

Outpatient Opportunities

Hundreds of hospitals across the country have established outpatient wound center programs, offering both patient and facility benefits. They've discovered that a systematic approach to wound care, including appropriate diagnostic workups, evidence based treatment protocols and outpatient or inpatient interventions lead to superior clinical outcomes, positive revenue streams and well deserved community accolades.

In some instances, hospitals have outsourced the management of these outpatient centers. In other instances, hospitals have taken on those responsibilities themselves.

Management companies provide certain services, both clinical and financial, that streamline the operational aspects of an outpatient center. But of course, this service comes at a price.

Hospitals choosing to 'go it alone' lose certain benchmarking capabilities and potentially fall behind on reimbursement and clinical issues. They are entrusting their clinical and management staff stays on top of these fast changing elements.

There is an intermediate step however, sitting somewhere between a full blown management company and the 'go it alone' concept. Some companies are now offering hybrid services, providing consulting services on an as-needed-basis across multiple hospital clients. For example, they might work with a hospital client at the beginning of the process, building the business case, discussing staffing issues, establishing clinical protocols, advising on reimbursement issues and so forth. From time to time, they update the clinic staff with relevant information.

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