The perpetrators of a $900 million healthcare scam targeted nursing homes and other facilities where seniors lived, looking for Medicare patients whom they could dupe into receiving expensive wound care...
Wound care at home needs more policy and tech support
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 10, 2023
Patients ready to leave a nursing home often have unhealed chronic wounds, but virtual programs that could assist in follow-up care face multiple barriers, new research shows.
Ask the wound care expert … about skin assessments
By
Fatima Naqvi, MD
Nov 07, 2023
Q: Why is it so important to assess the skin at admission?
New organization looks to elevate LTC wound care standards
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 21, 2023
A former Genesis HealthCare executive has launched a new national collaborative meant to educate long-term care professionals on all aspects of wound care and skin health.
Ongoing wound care attrition christened a national crisis
By
John Hall
Nov 02, 2023
The ongoing nursing shortage is also limiting the pool of wound care nurses.
Joint Commission emphasizes diagnosis, treatment of pressure injuries
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 18, 2023
The Joint Commission has issued guidance on pressure injuries which can raise the risk for people to have worse outcomes including amputation and infection. The recommendations aim to equip healthcare...
AI could be on the way for DFUs, PUs ASAP
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 10, 2023
An artificial intelligence chatbot has been proven capable of diagnosing complex wounds and initiating proper treatment plans for human patients.
Changes to end-of-life wound classification in a recent Minimum Data Set update should be a positive for long-term care, but regulatory and legal ambiguity still surrounded the new coding procedures at...
The changes to end-of-life skin wound classification in the most recent Minimum Data Set update are ultimately a positive for long-term care, but regulatory ambiguity and potential legal concerns still...