WoundCentrics Offers Continuing Education on the Topic of Covid-19 and Wound Care
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Dr. Marcus Gitterle, Chief Medical Officer for WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas, provided a lecture to the National Association of Long-Term Hospitals (NALTH) membership on the topic of Covid 19 and the impact on wound care in November 2020.
The 50-minute video presentation offers an in-depth review of the implication and changes in wound care being provided to patients that have tested positive with Covid 19. The unique challenges that nursing and clinical staff are managing during the on-going pandemic has yielded new information on how to manage Covid 19 patients that present or develop wounds during and after hospitalization. Dr. Gitterle presents several important pearls of wisdom to educate wound care providers from the lessons learned from treating thousands of patients with Covid 19 in multiple states in all types of facilities.
The Covid 19 and Wound Care lecture is very informative and educational for all clinical personnel that are treating and exposed to Covid 19 patients.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to our health systems, including wound care. What is encouraging is that we have already identified valuable best-practices that can prevent complications in these patients while supporting and protecting caregivers,” explained Dr. Marcus Gitterle, Chief Medical Officer for WoundCentrics. “ Our goal is to share these lessons learned and valuable pearls of wisdom with other providers during this pandemic,” Gitterle said.
The Continuing Education presentation is available on the WoundCentrics website under the topic of Continuing Education / CNE. After viewing the educational Covid 19 and Wound Care video presentation, a quiz and form is available to complete and receive your 1.0 Hours of CNE credit and the CNE Certificate.
To learn more about WoundCentrics as a company and its educational offerings visit www.woundcentrics.com/ceu
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WoundCentrics Expands Inpatient Wound Care Services to Cornerstone Hospitals in Oklahoma
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WoundCentrics has announced that it has expanded its services to Dallas-based Cornerstone Healthcare Group. WoundCentrics is now providing its specialized wound care services to Cornerstone Specialty Hospital Broken Arrow and Cornerstone Specialty Hospital Muskogee. With more than 60 combined long term acute care beds, Cornerstone's two Tulsa area locations serve a medically complex patient population, including complex wounds, for which WoundCentrics has proven success in achieving improved outcomes.
WoundCentrics initially began providing wound services for Cornerstone Healthcare Group in Texas and Louisiana in 2017 and started services in Oklahoma in December 2020.
“We are pleased to expand our wound care services to Cornerstone Hospitals in Broken Arrow and Muskogee,” stated Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer for WoundCentrics. “We have proven track record of success with Cornerstone Hospitals in Texas and Louisiana and excited about expanding our relationship to the Oklahoma hospitals and with Cornerstone and as a company,” Oertli explained.
WoundCentrics is located in New Braunfels, Texas and operates in 11 states with nearly 60 employed physicians and APPs servicing acute and post acute facilities and wound centers. To learn more about WoundCentrics visit www.woundcentrics.com
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In Service to Our Neighbors
The season of giving has arrived. Spending time helping at local shelters or food banks provides an important service to our neighbors. Our New Braunfels corporate office made the commitment to provide for those in need this Thanksgiving. Our team members from the WoundCentrics corporate office made a call to the New Braunfels Food Bank and the list of items needed was quickly filled. It was important to provide non-perishable items for families in need and pop-top canned items for the homeless population. From soups to chili, tuna and cereal, rice and beans, each of these items will be distributed to individuals and families in need this season and within our community.
Giving back to our community brings people together, and together our corporate office provided service in action and kindness. The donation made its way to the New Braunfels Food Bank two days before Thanksgiving, weighing in at 100 pounds of food. Our plan for Thanksgiving 2021 is to expand our collection efforts to both our corporate offices located in Lubbock and New Braunfels, Texas, and at our clinic and hospital locations in 12 states to help benefit those in need in each of the local communities we serve.
WoundCentrics provides aligned wound care across the continuum of care that produces efficient, cost-effective care and exceptional patient outcomes. We, at WoundCentrics are not only committed to our patients and their healing, but we are also committed to providing for our local communities, building a strong reputation within the community, and participating in charitable initiatives. This month WoundCentrics also sponsored the Texas Tech Alumni Association San Antonio Chapter Golf Tournament as a hole sponsor. Our efforts to support our community will help provide for those in need through in-kind donations and to provide for those in need of financial assistance through educational scholarships. We, at WoundCentrics, are grateful for our patients and families who trust us to provide high quality care. And we are grateful for our partners and team members who work tirelessly to care for those we serve. From our WoundCentrics family to yours – Happy Thanksgiving!
Interested in making a donation to the New Braunfels Food Bank, visit https://nbfoodbank.org/ or call 830-327-6000.
WoundCentrics corporate associates donate 100 pounds of food to the New Braunfels Food Bank. Pictured from left to right: Stuart Oertli, Stacie Huggins, Samantha Stahl, David Jones, Dr. Marcus Gitterle, Brandye West, and Emily Santana.
WoundCentrics is a sponsor for Texas Tech Alumni Association - San Antonio Chapter golf tournament. Pictured left to right: Stuart Oertli, Tim Vernon, and Christina Chapman.
UVA Transitional Hospital Enters an Agreement with WoundCentrics
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University of Virginia Health System and University Physician Group partners with WoundCentrics to provide advanced wound care services.
The University of Virginia Health System (UVA Health) and University Physician Group have engaged WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas to implement and oversee an advanced wound care program for its Transitional Care Hospital (TCH) in Charlottesville, Virginia. TCH is a Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) serving medically complex patients with an average length of stay of 25 days or greater.
WoundCentrics offers an inpatient wound care program designed for LTACHs that coordinates care with the high acuity patients that the Hospital manages. WoundCentrics will begin to provide services later this year.
“We are very excited to partner with an academic institution like UVA Health and the experienced administrative and clinical team at UVA Transitional Care Hospital,” stated Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer at WoundCentrics. “This unique partnership will allow us to train UPGs designated wound care provider(s) through our Wound Care University and allow UVA, UPG, and TCH to develop care pathways across the continuum of care.”
WoundCentrics is a full-service wound care management and services company that has been operating since 2008 and currently operates in 12 states and more than 50 facilities including acute care, hospital outpatient departments, long-term acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and free-standing clinics. For more information on WoundCentrics visit the website at www.woundcentrics.com.
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WoundCentrics to provide Inpatient Wound Care Services at Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital
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WoundCentrics, a specialized wound care services company based in New Braunfels, Texas, announced that it began providing inpatient wound care to the rehabilitation patients at Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital in Austin, Texas on September 1, 2020.
Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital is an Ascension Seton Healthcare facility in partnership with Kindred Healthcare of Louisville, Kentucky. The Hospital offers stroke, neurological, orthopedic, and general rehabilitation through its physical, occupational, speech and other rehabilitation focused services.
Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital was recently named the best Rehabilitation Hospital in the greater Austin area and 12th overall in Texas by Newsweek magazine based on the results of a Statista Inc. survey that ranked the country’s Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers.
“Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital began discussion with WoundCentrics with the focus on providing specialized wound care services for their rehabilitation patients with a goal of complementing each patient’s rehabilitation plan of care,” according to Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer at WoundCentrics.
“We are excited to have our specially trained wound care providers working with the physicians and clinical staff at Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital to provide advanced wound care services that will ultimately improve patient outcomes and enhance the overall quality of services received,” stated Marcus Gitterle, WoundCentrics’ Chief Medical Officer. “Seton Healthcare and Kindred Healthcare are industry leaders and we believe our wound program will fit seamlessly with their high standards of care.”
Ken Rideout, Chief Business Development Officer for WoundCentrics offered that, “our clinical model is designed to provide specialized wound care to patients in all settings, including the inpatient acute care hospital as well as the many post-acute settings where wound care needs are often complex and prevalent such as Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals, Rehabilitation Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Long Term Care Facilities and in the patient’s home.”
For more information on WoundCentrics visit the website at www.woundcentrics.com
WoundCentrics Enters New Partnership with Tyler ContinueCARE Hospital
Continuing its close partnership with ContinueCARE Hospitals, WoundCentrics began its 8th specialized wound care services program for the system this month. Tyler ContinueCARE Hospital in Tyler, Texas and WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas began their partnership at the Tyler Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) on August 3, 2020.
Tyler ContinueCARE Hospital is a 51-bed LTACH, located on the 4th floor of Christus Mother Francis Hospital - Tyler. The Hospital is an accredited long-term acute care hospital with the ability to provide medically complex care, including wound care, to the patients, it serves in East Texas.
“We are pleased to work with the clinical and medical staff at Tyler ContinueCARE Hospital. Our specialized wound care program is designed to meet the complex needs of these critically ill, long-term acute care patients. Removing wound care from its typical silo in acute care can only help to better serve the needs of these patients and improve their health outcomes,” stated Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer at WoundCentrics.
WoundCentrics is a full-service wound care management and provider company offering wound services in all facilities on the continuum of care, including Acute Care Hospital, Hospital Outpatient Clinics, Long Term Acute Care Hospitals, Rehabilitation Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities and Home Health, including Telehealth. For more information on WoundCentrics visit our website at www.woundcentrics.com
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Ochsner Extended Care Hospital Partners with WoundCentrics
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Ochsner Extended Care Hospital Partners with WoundCentrics
WoundCentrics, LLC, based in New Braunfels, Texas, is proud to announce that it has signed a Specialized Wound Care Services Agreement with Ochsner Extended Care Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ochsner Extended Care Hospital is a 32 bed LTACH that is a joint venture between Louisiana Home Care Group (LHC) and Ochsner Health.
WoundCentrics began providing wound care services to the patients at the long-term acute care hospital on May 19, 2020. The agreement, which was originally slated to start later this summer, was implemented earlier than planned to help Ochsner Extended Care Hospital care for the increasing number of complex wounds they were seeing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, the LTACH converted temporarily to an all COVID-19 hospital. Upon doing so, the wound care needs of this medically complex population were quickly identified and the program was initiated via telehealth and then onsite shortly thereafter.
The WoundCentrics specialized inpatient wound care program aligns with the care needs of long-term care facilities that are challenged with the task of managing very sick patients including the care for their complex wounds. Acute and post-acute wound care are critically important to the patients overall healing and health.
“WoundCentrics is proud to partner with Ochsner Health and the LHC Group to provide inpatient wound care services and work with the local clinical and administrative team at the Extended Care Hospital in New Orleans,” explained Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer at WoundCentrics. “With the added challenge of COVID-19, we have seen something similar to what we experienced with most of our contracted partners and that is that although the types of wounds have changed since CMS adopted its new LTACH admission criteria, the incidence of wounds on these sicker patients certainly has not decreased. We are looking forward to providing our unique inpatient wound care program for these critically ill patients in partnership with the medical staff and clinical team at Ochsner Extended Care Hospital,” Oertli added.
WoundCentrics is a specialty provider of education, training and direct wound care services that focus on wounds across the entire continuum of care, including acute care hospitals, LTACHs, Rehabilitation Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities and Home Health settings. WoundCentrics currently operates in 12 states and employs more than 50 wound care physicians and mid-level providers (www.woundcentrics.com). LHC Group is a nationwide organization operating in 35 states and employing more than 30,000. LHC's services include home health, hospice, palliative care and facility based care. They operate more than a dozen long term acute care hospitals in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas (https://lhcgroup.com).
Ochsner Health is Louisiana's largest non-profit, academic healthcare system employing more than 25,000 staff and more than 4,500 physicians. Ochsner operates more than 40 owned or managed hospitals and specialty hospitals across the region (https://www.ochsner.org).
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Regional Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center Responds to High Risk COVID-19 Patients
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Regional Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center of Corpus Christi announces new Express Service
The Regional Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center, located at 1533 5th Street, in Corpus Christi, Texas has announced this month a new innovative Express Service to expedite wound care service to high risk patients in compliance with COVID-19 standards.
The Express Service is for select wounds and can be scheduled within one day for most insurance plans. The program has a call ahead check-in, no waiting, a designated drop off area under a canopy at the door that is separate from the main entrance. This eliminates waiting in an exam room to limit exposure for patients.
“The new Express Service is designed to provide the utmost in safety and care for our at-risk wound care patients,” according to Bridget Sanders, MD, FASCRS, ABWS-CWS, Medical Director, Surgeon and Wound Care Specialist at the wound clinic. “The program expedites the time and manner we can best see the patients to provide comprehensive wound care services without prolonged waiting time, delays with limited exposure to other patients and personnel in the clinic,” she stated.
The Regional Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center provides advanced wound care treatments and therapies, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, for patients with non-healing wounds in the Corpus Christi area.
Area physicians and specialty clinics can refer wound care patients to the clinic Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm by eFax at: 877-670-4779. Patients can self-refer by calling the clinic at 361-371-5544.
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WoundCentrics Offers its Advanced Wound Care Programs Via Telemedicine to All Facilities
WoundCentrics Offers its Advanced Wound Care Programs Via Telemedicine to All Facilities
Due to the federal government’s declaration of a national emergency, Telemedicine is now possible for all Medicare, Medicare Advantage and most Medicaid and commercial insurance payors throughout the United States regardless of where a patient in need may be located.
Our Wound Care Specialist have the technology and wound care expertise to provide telemedicine consults and follow up care to wound care patients that require complex wound care management from a medical professional.
The WoundCentrics Telemedicine Program offers:
Secure, Free HIPAA compliant software solution that enables…
Live or “store and forward” video capability
Secure messaging for support between formal visits
Downloadable on most hand-held devices
Simple photo capture, even from a personal device while maintaining HIPAA compliance
Safe and reliable technology with a dedicated wound care specialist to manage wound care plans
Electronic documentation sent to facility at time of service
Actionable wound care visits that improve patient outcomes
No direct cost to your facility
Contact WoundCentrics at 281-989-5398 to start Telemedicine wound care visits in your facility
WoundCentrics launches its LTACH Inpatient Wound Care Services at Acuity Specialty Hospital
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WoundCentrics launches its LTACH Inpatient Wound Care Services at Acuity Specialty Hospital
WoundCentrics of New Braunfels, Texas has announced that it has started providing its specialty inpatient wound care services to the Acuity Specialty Hospital of Southern New Jersey in February 2020. WoundCentrics inpatient wound care program is designed around the needs of the LTACH staff and patients and is focused on providing wound care in collaboration with the facility’s existing clinical team.
Acuity Specialty Hospital of Southern New Jersey (ASHSNJ) is a 69-bed Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) that is 100 percent employee-owned. The hospital is specifically designed and staffed to provide intensive care to patients who are either ventilator dependent or have other medically complex conditions such as extensive non-healing wounds, infections, multi-system failures or complications from surgery. The hospital utilizes a physician led interdisciplinary team of highly skilled clinicians who develop a customized plan of care designed to support and effectively treat some of the most complex clinical conditions found in healthcare.
Patients are referred for care at ASHSNJ from all over the United States. In the Delaware Valley, 35 community and tertiary care hospitals choose ASHSNJ for extended hospitalization and continuity of care. Since 2005, ASHSNJ has been setting the standard of care in the industry, patient clinical outcomes are among the best in the nation for ventilator weaning and complex wound healing.
“Despite the challenging times we are facing in the midst of the current COVID-19 healthcare crisis, patient’s needs continue and wound care is a vital part of their care. We are proud to work with the medical and administrative team at Acuity Specialty Hospital of Southern New Jersey,” claimed Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer for WoundCentrics. “The New Jersey Acuity Hospital is our fourth Acuity facility to contract with to provide our inpatient wound care program and team up with the local providers to ensure quality, advanced wound care to the patients admitted to the LTACH Hospitals,” Oertli stated.
WoundCentrics was founded in 2012 to provide integrated solutions for advanced wound care to hospital and post-acute facilities, including the LTACH specialty hospital. WoundCentrics has provided wound care focused services to over 75 facilities in 15 states.
