Picture the patient you saw last Tuesday. Sixty years old, diabetic foot ulcer that’s been open for six months, peripheral arterial disease, stage 3 chronic kidney disease, and a recent hospitalization for decompensated heart failure. You’ve already seen...
Wound care clinicians operate in one of medicine’s most demanding regulatory environments. You’re treating patients with complex, chronic wounds: diabetic foot ulcers that have persisted for months, venous leg ulcers complicated by lymphedema, pressure...
Chronic wounds don’t make headlines the way cancer or heart disease do. They don’t have awareness months or celebrity advocates. And yet, for the Medicare population and the providers who care for them, chronic wounds represent one of the most persistent...
Every limb lost to a preventable wound represents more than a surgical outcome. It represents a breakdown somewhere along the care continuum: a wound that went undetected too long, a referral that came too late, a care gap that no one had the data to see. For wound...
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