Online Issue Introduction
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The Wound Care Division of HMP Communications, LLC announces the launch of Today's Wound Clinic (TWC) new Online Issues. Each issue will be located at www.Todayswoundclinic.com on a bi-monthly basis, starting in January 2010. Each Online issue will feature all new exclusive articles that will extend TWC's content year-round.
A Love/Hate Relationship
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 5:51am
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A Love/Hate Relationship
As the concept for Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) was conceived and developed, it became clear that there was truly a need for a publication of this type to fill the gap for those of us practicing in this environment. Having attended several different meetings over the past few years, I have noticed that many different groups have tried to characterize what actually ‘qualifies’ as a wound center. To this day the qualification has yet to be defined. Whether attempting to identify our audience for TWC, preparing to present to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servic
Resolving Practice Management Conflicts Raises Many Questions
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 5:48am
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I hate conflict. And I am not very good at resolving it since my primary coping skill is avoidance. However, there are certainly many opportunities for conflict in the clinic setting. When we began to formulate this issue, I was reminded of some particularly troublesome examples ranging from the humorous to the shocking. I recall the frustration of the nursing staff when a physician slowed the clinic operations by applying Unna’s boots by herself so as to take advantage of the additional revenue. Situations such as these raise the question when some procedures can be billed by either the phy
Northern California's Mecca of Wound Care
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 5:30am
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O'Conner Hospital's Wound Care Clinic
In 1990, O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, Calif, was aware of the need for a wound care clinic. As a result, O’Connor Hospital’s Wound Care Clinic (WCC) was developed into a modern day Mecca for wound care in Northern California.
According to the current Medical Director, Peter Schubart, MD, PhD, it began when the hospital agreed to sign a contract with Curative Health Services (Nashua, NH) allowing the clinic to open its doors in 1992.
One patient was seen on the first day. Currently, the clinic averages 35–55 patients a day and offers 1
Documetning Your Success
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 5:27am
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Documenting Your Success
here is an ancient Chinese proverb which says, the palest ink is better than the best memory. This issue is about medical documentation. These days, documentation may or may not be done with ink, but there is no question about the importance of providing a record of the care we have provided. The issue of documentation is enormously complex. The topic includes not only how information is to be collected (with paper, electronically or even some mixture of the two), but also how information will be used.
To begin, we will take a 30,000-foot view of documentation,
A Brand New World
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 4:40am
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Welcome to the first 2008 issue of Today’s Wound Clinic. Hopefully, you found the two 2007 issues relevant and meaningful and are ready to embark on a new year of sharing clinical and practical information.
The four quarterly issues of TWC this year focus on topics that present multifaceted, clinical, reimbursement, and management challenges. Chris Morrison will introduce a new online feature “Exit Polls” that comprises a quarterly survey — results to be published in subsequent issues with a culminating detailed analysis available in an article or supplement at the end of the y
Cutting Through The Confusion
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 3:49am
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The TWC Editorial Board labored over how to address the important, controversial, and confusing topic of debridement. An integral part of the day-to-day care provided in hospital-owned outpatient wound care departments (HOPDs), debridement removes devitalized tissue from a wound that otherwise would be slower to heal, at higher risk for infection, and not receptive to more advanced topical treatments such as wound matrix technology, negative pressure wound therapy, growth factors, and bioengineered tissues.
Surgical wound debridement is not a technically difficult skill to learn once you un
Meet The Editors
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 3:34am
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Welcome to the inaugural issue of Today’s Wound Clinic. This journal was developed to address the specific needs of clinicians and administrators of outpatient wound clinics — a growing segment of providers managing patients with wounds that require on-going care. We invite you to meet the two professionals responsible for the inception and oversight of this publication. Although they humbly profess the serendipitous nature of their professional achievements, their combined years of education (received and provided), managerial and patient care experience, and mutual respect make them the
