Expert Wound Care Support for Hospice Providers
The Wound Company helps hospices across the country deliver higher quality end-of-life wound care to their patients compliantly as part of the hospice benefit, improving comfort, dignity and satisfaction.
Our quality improvement programs save hospices nationwide millions of dollars per year on unnecessary wound care visits, incorrect or unnecessary wound care supplies, and time spent dealing with state surveys and complaints related to wound care.
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Helping you meet the challenges of hospice wound care
Our wound and ostomy experts integrate seamlessly with hospice care teams in homes, nursing facilities, and hospice centers. We offer detailed wound management plans and unlimited support to help hospice nurses, intake managers, and case managers provide enhanced care.
Here’s how we support you as you face issues, including:
Vulnerable patient population
Patients in end-of-life care have a high risk for developing wounds due to age, frailty, immobility, or illness. Hospice providers are stretched thin caring for patients with complex illnesses, and they may not have the time or training to provide the level of wound and ostomy care their patients need and deserve. Our wound experts help hospice providers respond with appropriate treatment plans and supplies focused on comfort, dignity and patient satisfaction.
High staffing costs
Every visit costs your hospice but not every wound care visit is necessary, exposing patients to additional pain during dressing changes that are not appropriate during hospice. Our personalized care plans reduce unnecessary dressing changes in almost 1 in 2 hospice patients, protecting your staff’s capacity for the visits that matter. Hiring your own wound and ostomy experts is also expensive and time-consuming. We provide a sustainable, powerful solution for much less.
Overpaying for supplies
Most hospice patients can experience better clinical outcomes with simpler, less expensive supplies, but hospices continue to overspend on advanced dressings or too many dressings. Our programs ensure better care while saving money supplies through individualized care plans aligned to end-of-life goals.
Wound healing and palliative wound care, made easy with The Wound Company
When you partner with The Wound Company to strengthen your hospice care team, you’ll find:
Specialized expertise
We assign every hospice customer a team of certified wound and ostomy experts. Our specialists address everything from dressings and supplies to skin care, nutrition, infection prevention, and repositioning. We also help you develop SOPs, align patients’ families to hospice wound care goals, and navigate competing objectives with SNFs.
Proactive, Ongoing Support
Through EMR access and regular reports, our team engages on every admitted patient with a wound at the start of care, providing individualized and comprehensive wound management plans. Then we stay engaged throughout the entire hospice episode for every patient.
Easy access
Your wound care consultants are always just a text, call, email, or video chat away. We use HIPAA Compliant Zoom links for real-time telehealth.
How our wound care solution works
Our complete solution makes advanced wound and ostomy care at the end-of-life efficient, convenient, and accessible. Here’s how it works:
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Regular EMR reports help us engage on every new admission with a wound, or you can reach out whenever you need us.
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Our experienced wound care experts provide consultations and communicate with your team through EMR access and secure email communication, or through HIPAA-compliant Zoom.
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For every patient, we provide a detailed wound management plan, suggest the right supplies off your formulary and produce robust documentation for you.
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These are not one-and-done consultations. Our wound care experts stay engaged throughout the hospice episode, providing ongoing support to your field staff and making adjustments as necessary to the care plan.
Virtual wound and ostomy care
Hospice providers have convenient and unlimited remote access to our wound care specialists via video, text, phone, and email. Consult with us as frequently as needed to feel confident about the care you provide. We can also directly support your patients virtually.
In-person wound and ostomy care
For complicated or severe wounds that require in-person evaluation and care by one of our experts, we can deploy a specialist to the patient.
A solution for healthcare’s biggest wound care challenges
Our outcomes speak for themselves:
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Wounds Improving
83% of our hospice wounds are improving or healing during hospice episode, elevating quality and patient satisfaction
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Reduction in Dressing Changes
We reduce the frequency of dressing changes in 47% of patients we consult on, helping manage pain, promoting comfort and saving hospices money on unnecessary visits and supplies used
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Eliminating Dressings Completely
We’re eliminating dressings altogether in 15% of hospice patients, saving on supplies and dressing change visits
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More Affordable Supplies
In 33% of hospice patients, we’re switching them to less expensive supplies that are more appropriate for hospice
Partner with us
Empower your hospice care team with our wound and ostomy specialists. Learn more about how to partner with The Wound Company.