ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Madisonville Adds WoundCentrics Wound Services
Press Release: For Immediate Release
WoundCentrics, LLC of New Braunfels, Texas, announced that has expanded its relationship with CHC ContinueCare to provide its specialized in-patient wound care services to ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Madisonville (KY).
ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Madisonville is a 36 bed Long Term Acute Care Hospital LTACH located on the fourth floor of Baptist Health Madisonville, a 410 bed facility located in Madisonville, Kentucky.
ContinueCARE Hospital is a “hospital-within-a-hospital,” that is a separately licensed acute-care hospital with the ability to provide intensive and complex medical treatment including complex wound care. Their specialty programs are specifically designed to meet the needs of long-term, acute-care patients and WoundCentrics is pleased to collaborate in offering its specialized in-patient wound care services as part of the exceptional care already being offered.
“We are excited to continue our relationship with CHC ContinueCARE, they are an exceptional organization that is truly focused on providing exceptional care to the patients they serve. Our in-patient wound program will be a compliment to the excellent clinical care already being provided and fits well with WoundCentrics' mission to bring the best wound care possible to our partner facilities. We are proud to now offer services to CHC ContinueCARE in four states and eight hospitals.” stated Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer of WoundCentrics.
ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Madisonville opened in the summer of 2015 and is located at 900 Hospital Drive, 4th Floor, Madisonville, KY 42431.
WOUNDCENTRICS COMPLIANCE OFFICER ATTENDS ANNUAL UHMS MEETING
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting
Wyndham Rio Mar Puerto Rico Golf and Beach Resort June, 2019
Each year the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) holds an international scientific meeting to provide a forum for professional scientific growth and to improve the knowledge and competence of hyperbaric medicine providers in order to improve patient outcomes.
The meeting provides a basis for exchange of ideas, both scientific and practical for physicians, researchers, and other health care professionals. The UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting consists of abstracts, poster presentations, plenary sessions, and social events. The Annual Scientific Meeting affords an opportunity for participants to meet and interact with past and present leaders of the UHMS and to become more active in Society affairs.
Kaye Moseley, WoundCentrics Director of Compliance and Regulatory Reimbursement and an active board member of the UHMS attended this year’s meeting in Puerto Rico. The meeting provided valuable information on topics such as the accepted uses of hyperbaric oxygen in clinical and diving medicine, critique of current decompression schedules and the development of safer protocols, pathophysiology and treatment of toxic and anoxic disorders in which hyperbaric oxygen is used either as he primary or as an adjunctive modality. Participants were also introduced to new diagnostic, research or therapeutic techniques and equipment pertaining to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
In addition to the main scientific lecture sessions, the Associate Members of the UHMS (Non-physician) held a one-day breakout session with lectures and poster presentations geared more toward hyperbaric operations. These lectures covered topics such as new mechanical ventilator technology for use with multi and mono-place chambers, infection control practices, patient education, facility accreditation, The Joint Commission updates and probes, CMS and third party payer requirements for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, biological skin substitutes, and debridements. At the end of the Breakout session Kaye led a Round Table discussion on Compliance, Reimbursement and Preparation for a CMS Target, Probe and Educate audit of HBOT.
Across the country, the hyperbaric industry is experiencing a decrease in the number of treatments provided and the negative financial impact of CMS and third party payers’ control over payment for HBOT. Unfortunately, the impact on our patients in need of the therapy is far greater. As an active board member of UHMS, Kaye is able to keep WoundCentrics’ partners abreast of actual and planned regulatory changes to minimize the clinical and operational impact on their wound clincs.
Everyone who attended the meeting agreed, compliance with the local MAC’s LCD and adhering to the clinical documentation requirements are critical to ensure we can continue to offer Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy to patients. Through education and legitimate clinical research, the UHMS continues the quest for approval of new HBOT indications while trying to maintain our current indications.
Kaye, through her participation in UHMS, continues to support WoundCentrics and its partners in advocacy for hyperbaric medicine’s utility and efficacy.
Kaye Moseley
WoundCentrics Director of Compliance and Regulatory Reimbursement
Associate Representative, UHMS Board of Directors
UHMS Finance Committee Member
President-Elect Gulf Coast Chapter of the UHMS
WoundCentrics is a Visionary Partner for the Spring 2019 NALTH Clinical Conference
WoundCentrics will be a major sponsor and exhibitor at the National Association of Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals (NALTH) Spring 2019 LTCH Clinical Education & Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 1 to Friday, May 3rd in Las Vegas at the Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.
WoundCentrics is a Visionary Partner with NALTH, which is the highest level of sponsorship, and includes participating in the Table Top Topics sessions by providing WoundCentrics management as guest faculty. The Visionary Partnership also includes participating in the Vendor Exhibits that will offer information on the WoundCentrics clinical and business model, advertising in the conference program and having company personnel attend the Spring Conference educational programs.
The theme for WoundCentrics at the NALTH Spring Conference will be a focus on the company’s clinical wound care services provided in the LTACH.
Advanced Wound Care designed for the LTACH
Wound care is a unique challenge and focus for the medical staff and management in every LTACH due to the high acuity and complex patients admitted to the long-term acute care hospitals. WoundCentrics has developed a specialized wound care program specifically designed for the LTACH.
The WoundCentrics model provides fully-aligned wound care specialist providers which complements the current day LTACH model. Our program features:
✓ Daily rounding by WoundCentrics Providers
✓ Improved clinical outcomes
✓ Reduce re-admissions
✓ Standardize formulary for cost containment
✓ Optimizing length of stay and revenue opportunities.
Our wound care program is system-based with daily provider rounds and coordinated case management. We deliver maximum value by assuring that all services which can be effectively delivered within the LTACH are available at the bedside. This prevents case cherry-picking by non-aligned providers, sharply reduces outmigration due to wound-related complications as well as transfers to other facilities for surgical debridement.
Let’s talk at the NALTH Spring Conference 2019 about the WoundCentrics wound care program. Our goal is to establish your LTACH as a true center of excellence, while improving length of stay, controlling costs and maximizing profitability with LTACH compliant admissions.
Wound Care Specialists of America Merges with WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas
Wound Care Specialists of America of Lubbock, Texas, announced that it has merged with
WoundCentrics, LLC of New Braunfels, Texas effective October 1, 2018. The new entity will continue
operating as WoundCentrics, LLC and consolidate the most of its operations to a new corporate office to
be constructed in New Braunfels, Texas with expected completion in late 2019.
Wound Care Specialists was formed in 2009 and manages hospital based and physician owned wound
care & hyperbaric medicine clinics. Wound Care Specialists started with the acquisition of 2 Christus
hospital wound center contracts and has grown to managing 4 Christus hospital programs, including
both inpatient and outpatient wound care services.
WoundCentrics was formed in 2012 in New Braunfels, Texas, operating with a provider-based model
focusing primarily on post acute wound care services to Long Term Acute Care Hospitals.
WoundCentrics has grown from its first single LTACH location to 27 Long Term Acute Care Hospital
clients located in 14 states and provides its specialized wound care services to numerous Skilled Nursing
Facilities, Rehabilitation Hospitals, and Acute Care Hospitals. The merged companies will also operate 13
outpatients wound and hyperbaric centers.
“Wound Care Specialists merging with WoundCentrics will allow both companies to create synergies and
operate under one umbrella in the markets we serve together,” stated Rodney Franklin, MD, CEO of
WoundCentrics. “WoundCentrics will have a larger footprint in the wound care market and allow for us
to serve our clients better and afford our team more resources for scaling our clinical and business
operations.” Dr. Franklin explained.
Stuart Oertli, WoundCentrics Chief Operating Officer, shared his thoughts on the merger saying “it is an
exciting time for the company as we grow, starting new partnerships and expanding others. While such
rapid growth can be challenging at times, we have seen how much our services mean to the patients
and organizations we serve.”
WoundCentrics Launches Wound Services Program at ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah
WoundCentrics, LLC, of New Braunfels, Texas, has announced that it has recently launched its Specialized Wound Care Services program at ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah, a Long Term Acute Hospital (LTACH) located in Paducah, Kentucky.
The WoundCentrics program will focus on aligning the wound care team at the 37-bed LTACH located, within Baptist Health in Paducah, which began in July 2018. Dr. Peter Ward, a Plastic Surgeon in Paducah, is leading the clinical delivery of the WoundCentrics specialized wound services program and has completed advanced wound care training with the company and he is currently treating wound care patients at ContinueCARE Hospital in Paducah.
“Working with the management and clinical team at ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah, our wound care program will provide a wound care specialist physician who will round in the hospital daily and deliver clinical expertise for the Hospital’s wound service program,” according to Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer at WoundCentrics.
Len McDade, Chief Executive Officer at ContinueCARE Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah stated “as a hospital-within-a-hospital, located in the Baptist Health Hospital in Paducah, we are a separate yet fully licensed acute-care hospital with the ability to provide intensive and complex medical treatment. Our specialty programs are specifically designed to meet the needs of long-term, acute-care patients. The Wound Centrics wound program will increase our focus on patients with serious, complex wounds and our ability to provide high level wound care for our patients,” he explained.
“Our community and the region are fortunate to have a long-term acute care hospital to care for patients with complex medical conditions including providing expertise for complex wounds,” Len McDade stated. “We provide high quality care in a compassionate environment for very sick patients – every day. WoundCentrics will assist in our daily goals to provide the best care possible for patients with complex wounds.”
ContinueCARE Hospital, located at 2501 Kentucky Avenue, 5th Floor, Paducah, Kentucky 42003, serves the needs of patients with medically complex conditions, especially those suffering from multisystem complications and needing extended recovery times – often 25 days or more. The ability to provide these specialized services is possible through cooperation between Baptist Health Paducah and CHC ContinueCARE of Plano, Texas.
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Landmark Hospital of Joplin focus on Wound Care adds WoundCentrics Specialty Services
Landmark Hospital of Joplin, a 30-bed long term acute care facility that focuses on acutely ill patients
that require a longer in-patient stay, has contracted with WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas to
provide a specialized wound care program to build on the current wound care team.
“We are pleased to work with the outstanding administrative and clinical team at Landmark Joplin,
“stated Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer, for WoundCentrics. “Our wound care services program
and specialty trained providers will provide an emphasis on wound care that will complement the local
wound care team and raise the bar for advanced wound care and patient outcomes in the local market.
The Landmark Hospital of Joplin is the fourth Landmark owned facility to add the WoundCentrics wound
services program to their clinical offering. Landmark Corporation owns and manages seven critical care
Hospitals in the country.
For more information on the Landmark Hospital of Joplin facility go to
www.landmarkhospitals.com/critical-care-hospital-system/critical-care-hospital-joplin-mo/
For more information on WoundCentrics go to www.woundcentrics.com
WoundCentrics, LLC CMO Marcus Gitterle, M.D. Presents at TMF Quality Institute Event, April 2018
Marcus Gitterle, M.D. presented "Antibiotic Stewardship in Wound Care" at the TMF Health Quality Institute QIN-QIO Event on April 11, 2018. Dr. Gitterle focused on actionable strategies for optimizing antibiotic utilization and improving outcomes in high-risk populations.
Gleaned from his experiences as an Antibiotic Stewardship champion in the Christus Santa Rosa Hospital system in the San Antonio region, Dr. Gitterle presented to the audience of approximately 300 physicians and healthcare administrators strategies such as improving integration between the Emergency Department, HOPDs, ID consultants, and Hospitalist teams.
In addition, Dr. Gitterle presented data on the use of advanced PCR-based diagnostic strategies to improve outcomes over conventional microbial identification technologies, and rubrics for improving case management in non-infectious conditions commonly misdiagnosed as skin infections.
The TMF QIN-QIO works with health care providers in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Puerto Rico to improve care for patients. Email: tmfqin@tmf.org
WoundCentrics Continues Advocate Level Sponsorship at the NALTH Spring 2018 Clinical Education & Annual Meeting
WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas, has it Advocate level support as a sponsor of the National Association of Long Term Hospitals (NALTH) Spring 2018 Spring Clinical Education & Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday April 5th and Friday April 6th.
The NALTH bi-annual conference event will be held at Hyatt Centric French Quarter, New Orleans, LA. and will focus on the initiative to move to a unified payment system and the new qualification rules for patients.
WoundCentrics is an established Advocate Level Sponsor of NALTH and will have a marketing booth in the display area at the Fall Leadership Conference to discuss their Specialized Wound Care Program designed specifically for the LTACH and Post Acute facilities.
The Program will feature speaker programs on:
Coordinating Care in the LTACH / Management and Timely Transition for Complex Patients
Managing Access & Utilization in the LTACH – Continuum of Care Solutions for Complex Patients
LTACH Coding Update: Coding Overview and Issues
Data Element Standardization and the IMPACT Act of 2014
LTACH Regulatory Update
NALTH Research Policy and Advocacy – Lane Koenig, PhD
“WoundCentrics continues to evolve its strategies for promoting quality, profitability and improved patient outcomes related to wound care in acute and post acute care,” explained Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer for WoundCentrics. “As CMS shifts its post-acute care reimbursement strategies, we have observed that compliant patients with wound care needs are being admitted at and even higher rate than before payment reform, presenting an ongoing opportunity for the LTACH to be paid for providing appropriate wound care.
Oertli continued, “Maximizing reimbursement from these patients is one of the few proven ways to offset the revenue lost due to recent payment reform and NALTH has proven a key strategy for WoundCentrics to stay informed and ahead of the changes to ensure ongoing success for our clients.
Supporting NALTH is just one of the many ways we stay involved and informed on the constantly evolving regulatory and clinical care changes affecting LTACHs.”
WoundCentrics was formed in 2012 to provide aligned wound care services in the post acute market. We now provide services in 8 states and more than 30 hospitals.
ContinueCARE Hospitals in the Charlotte Market add WoundCentrics Wound Services
Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospitals in the Charlotte, North Carolina market have contracted with
WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas for specialized wound care services in their 3 area
hospitals.
Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospitals provide care to patients with complex medical conditions
who need specialized treatment and services that often require extended hospitalization of 25
days or more. The patients treated at the Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospital often have multiple
system illness including problem, complex wounds.
“Our specialized wound care program will provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary care
coordinated with skilled teams of physicians, nurses, therapists, dietitians, social workers, case
managers, pharmacists and other professionals – all working together on every aspect of
patient care. The WoundCentrics specialized wound care program will add focused quality
wound care that will benefit the Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospital patients and the
community,” stated Stuart Oertli, COO of WoundCentrics.
WoundCentrics is providing specialized wound care under the supervision of the System Wound
Care Medical Director at Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospital at Pineville, Carolinas ContinueCARE
Hospital at University and Carolinas ContinueCare Hospital at Kings Mountain.
WoundCentrics is a wound services company that provides clinical care to post-acute facilities.
For more information on Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospitals vie the website at
www.continuecare.org/pineville
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WoundCentrics Announces Wound Services Agreement with ContinueCARE Hospital at Palmetto Health Baptist
WoundCentrics, LLC, of New Braunfels, Texas, has announced an agreement to
provide its wound care services program to ContinueCARE Hospital at Palmetto Health Baptist,
a Long Term Acute Hospital (LTACH), in Columbia, South Carolina.
WoundCentrics will manage its Wound Care Specialists and focus on aligning the wound care
team at the 35-bed LTACH located within Palmetto Health Baptist, beginning January 1, 2018.
“Working with the management team at ContinueCARE Hospital at Palmetto Health Baptist and
at CHC ContinueCARE, we have identified a quality organization that our team will be able to
collaborate and align services to build on the current patient care initiatives for quality wound
care already in place,” stated Stuart Oertli, COO of WoundCentrics. “Our program will provide a
wound care specialist who will round in the hospital daily and deliver clinical expertise for the
wound service at ContinueCARE Hospital at Palmetto Health Baptist,” Oertli added.
“Our Hospital is licensed to provide care for critically ill patients who require daily physician and
staff attention for complex medical issues,” said Tom Harlan, CEO, ContinueCARE Hospital at
Palmetto Health Baptist. “Our specialty programs are specifically designed to meet the needs
of long-term, acute-care patients, including patients with chronic or challenging wounds.
Adding the WoundCentrics program and wound specialist providers expands our level of quality
care for wound care patients,” Harlan explained.
“Not every community is fortunate to have a long-term acute care hospital to care for patients
with complex medical conditions,” said Harlan. “We provide high quality care in a
compassionate environment for very sick patients – every day. WoundCentrics will assist in
our daily goals to provide the best care possible for wound care patients.”
ContinueCARE Hospital at Palmetto Health Baptist is located at Taylor at Marion Street,
Columbia, SC 29220 and can be reached via telephone at (803) 296-3757.