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

Welcome our Director of Clinical Education

Education empowers our providers
to deliver exceptional wound care services

Education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better.  It helps us build opinions and have points of view. For WoundCentrics, education empowers our providers to deliver exceptional wound care services to patients in all aspects of the healthcare continuum of care. In August we welcomed our new Director of Clinical Education, Chelsea Kelley, MSN, APRN, FNP-C.  Chelsea graduated with her Master of Science in Nursing in 2012 from the University of Texas at Austin and completed her post-MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program in May 2020 from the University of Texas at Tyler.

Chelsea shares, “I had the opportunity to intern at the Christus Santa Rosa Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, which is managed by WoundCentrics, a few years ago while pursuing a wound care certification program at Emory University.  At the time, I was a Clinical Resource Specialist in the wound care and medical device industry.  After rounding on patients in the hospital and seeing patients in the clinic, I witnessed the healing of complicated wounds through a truly holistic, patient-centered approach led by WoundCentrics providers.  It’s exciting and rewarding!”  When asked what she enjoys outside the workplace, Chelsea tell us, “I love being outdoors and anything adventure related.  I recently took up sailing.  I love guiding wilderness trips and introducing outdoor experiences to others. My daughter is always asking about our ‘next big adventure’. I’m looking forward to taking her on medical missions abroad when she’s older.”

Chelsea joined the WoundCentrics team at our New Braunfels corporate office on August 3, 2020, and immediately began building relationships with our healthcare providers, nurses, clinical staff, and administrative teams. Chelsea, a highly driven clinical specialist, and nurse practitioner will share her knowledge of developing and delivering clinical education and training for both our new and experienced medical professionals at WoundCentrics. Chelsea relays, “My goal is to implement a comprehensive learning experience that is engaging, experiential, vital to providers, and reflective of current, best practice guidelines.” We look forward to Chelsea excelling at utilizing her high-level of clinical expertise across multiple areas to support our comprehensive wound care education programs. 

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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A Combined 100 Years of Experience Joins to WoundCentrics

Congratulations Wound Care University (WCU) , graduates! This month we welcomed five new providers to WoundCentrics’ collection of highly trained professionals. We are proud to introduce to you Dr. William Wilson and Nurse Practitioners Ifeoma Ezeigwe, Helen Fitzner, Kayle Notley, and Lisa Standlee.   

WCU is a comprehensive wound care education program developed by our team of specialty wound care providers and associates, to prepare its graduates for complex wound care across the continuum of care. Dr. Wilson, Ifeoma, Helen, Kayla, and Lisa joined us at our New Braunfels corporate office, July 13-17, 2020, for five days of a curriculum which includes wound pathophysiology, treatment modalities, advanced technologies, product literacy, and clinical documentation. WCU allows our graduates to accelerate their wound care career with teachings on clinical skills, such as sharp debridement, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, and application of Engineered Skin Graft techniques, empowering our highly trained professionals to provide exceptional wound care services that improve outcomes to their patients.   

William Wilson, MD will join our wound care team at Christus Santa Rosa Westover Hills in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Wilson will pair his 28 years of experience in emergency and urgent care, wound care and family medicine with our team at Westover Hills who are committed to the Christus goal to heal wounds, promote early recovery, prevent hospitalization, avoid prolonged or permanent disability and amputations to restore the quality of life through individualized treatment plans (https://www.christushealth.org/santa-rosa/medical-center/services-treatments/wound-care).   

Ifeoma “Ify” Ezeigwe, AGPCNP-C will join Tyler ContinueCARE Hospital in Tyler, Texas. Ify will unite her 27 years of nursing experience with a comprehensive approach to wound care at Tyler ContinueCARE. Ify joins us with a personal mission to foster patient-centered care that is based on quality service, efficiency, and mutual respect for all stakeholders in the delivery of care. Tyler ContinueCARE Hospital is dedicated to its core values of compassion, care, accountability, respect, and empathy (https://continuecare.org/tyler/about-us/).   

Helen Fitzner, DNP, RN, FNP-BC received her doctorate from Texas Tech in 2014 and brings 15 years of nursing experience to WoundCentrics. Helen joins our team at Post Acute Medical (PAM) Rehabilitation Hospital and Cornerstone Specialty Hospital, both located in Round Rock, Texas. Helen has held a variety of leadership and educational roles in critical care and is a CPR and ACLS instructor. Helen, a progress-oriented professional with well-developed communication, leadership, and business skills, will fit in with the culture and mission of PAM Rehabilitation Hospital and Cornerstone Specialty Hospital, to make a difference by providing exceptionally high-quality patient care and outstanding customer service, coupled with loyal, dedicated, and highly trained staff (https://postacutemedical.com/company/about-us https://www.chghospitals.com/about/). 

Kayla Notley, ACNP-BC, RNFA will join our team at ContinueCARE Hospital at Medical Center in Odessa, Texas. Kayla received her MSN from Texas Tech. Having more than 10 years of diverse experience, Kayla will complement the existing team at ContinueCARE to heal wounds, restore a quality of life through individualized treatment plans, and to provide high-quality, compassionate care and service to all our patients (https://continuecare.org/odessa/about-us/). 

Lisa Standlee, FNP joins WoundCentrics with 20 years of clinical experience and four of those years in specialized wound care. Lisa will bring her clinical and wound care experience to Regional WoundCare and Hyperbarics in Corpus Christi, TX. Lisa will work together with our team of highly trained professionals at Regional WoundCare to design individualized treatment plans for each patient based on medical history and the severity of each wound. Our dedicated specialists at Regional WoundCare believe to successfully manage patients with chronic wounds, we must address all underlying medical and surgical problems through a comprehensive strategy in the patients' plan of care (http://www.regionalwoundcare.com/). 

Welcome to our team and congratulations on your graduation from WCU! 

Pictured left to right: William Wilson, MD, Ifeoma “Ify” Ezeigwe, AGPCNP-C, Helen Fitzner, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, Kayla Notley, ACNP-BC, RNFA, and Lisa Standlee, FNP

Christus Westover Hills Welcomes New Wound Center Medical Director, Dr. William Wilson

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CHRISTUS WESTOVER HILLS WELCOMES NEW WOUND CENTER MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DR. WILLIAM WILSON

In July 2020, Christus Santa Rosa Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center- Westover Hills announced the new Medical Director as William Robert Wilson, MD. Dr. Wilson is a Board-Certified Family Medicine physician who has practiced medicine in Texas since he graduated from Texas Tech Medical School, Lubbock, TX, in 1992.

Dr. Wilson is a San Antonio resident and has spent the past nine years as a physician working in the Emergency Room and Urgent Care clinics in the San Antonio area.  He recently completed his wound care training at Wound Care University in New Braunfels. He is currently providing inpatient wound care in the Hospital at Christus Santa Rosa Westover Hills Hospital, and serving as the Medical Director for the outpatient Christus Santa Rosa Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center- Westover Hills located on the Westover Hills campus.

If you are a provider or patient who would like to schedule an appointment at the Christus Santa Rosa Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center- Westover Hills please call the Center at (210) 703-8454   or send a patient referral via eFax to (877) 264-7020.

The CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center at Westover Hills employ a multidisciplinary team of professionals, providing the most advanced, state-of-the-art treatment currently available for chronic non-healing wounds. We utilize advanced treatment techniques such as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, artificial skin applications, and aggressive wound care strategies with the goal of preventing amputations and restoring patients to the full quality of life they experienced before the onset of non-healing wounds. Our goal is to restore a patient's quality of life through individualized treatment plans as well as to offer education to patients and their families (https://www.christushealth.org/santa-rosa/westover-hills/services-treatments/wound-care).

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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 Expands it's Footprint

Congratulations Wound Care University (WCU) graduates! The month of May welcomes four new Nurse Practitioners to WoundCentrics’ collection of highly trained professionals. We are proud to introduce to you Katie Decena, Roxs Anne Greaud, Tekisha Murphy, and Christine Rodriguez. 

Developed by our team of specialty wound care providers and associates, WCU is a comprehensive wound care education program designed to prepare its graduates for complex wound care across the continuum of care. Katie, Roxs Anne, Tekisha, and Christine joined us at our New Braunfels corporate office for a broad-based curriculum which includes wound pathophysiology, treatment modalities, advanced technologies, product literacy, and clinical documentation. Through WCU, our graduates accelerate their wound care career with teachings on clinical skills, such as sharp debridement, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, and application of Engineered Skin Graft techniques, empowering our providers to deliver exceptional wound care services that improve outcomes to their patients. 

Both Katie Decena, FNP-C and Christine Rodriguez, ANCC, FNP-BC will join our wound care teams in San Antonio, Texas at Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center and Christus Santa Rosa Westover Hills. Katie will pair her new advanced wound care knowledge with 10-years of acute care experience and Christine will incorporate her 25-years of comprehensive knowledge of health care delivery with the existing multidisciplinary team of clinical professionals. Together Katie and Christine combine their years of experience to share in the Christus goal to heal wounds, promote early recovery, prevent hospitalization, avoid prolonged or permanent disability and amputations to restore the quality of life through individualized treatment plans (https://www.christushealth.org/santa-rosa/medical-center/services-treatments/wound-care). 

Roxs Anne Greaud, APRN, ACNP-BC will join the newest hospital to partner with WoundCentrics, Ochsner Extended Care Hospital in Jefferson, Louisiana. Roxs Anne will unite her 11-years of nurse practitioner experience in acute and chronic disease management to Ocsher’s staff of 85 employees dedicated to delivering comprehensive, integrated treatment, helping patients recover from conditions ranging from cardiovascular and neurological disorders to infectious diseases and trauma. Ochsner’s long-term acute care unit is designed to care for the most critically ill patients for an extended period of time (https://www.ochsner.org/services/ochsner-extended-care-hospital). 

Tekisha Murphy, APRN, FNP-C will partner with James Patrick Bridges, MD at Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals of Texas Medical Center and Clear Lake in Houston, Texas along with numerous post-acute locations across the city. Tekisha shares with WoundCentrics her 17-years of clinical experience as a nurse and nurse practitioner and a passion to work with patients and families to provide individualized evidenced-based care and help her patients achieve their optimal level of health. Tekisha’s passion fits perfectly with Cornerstone’s mission to provide quality of care, responsive service, and commitment to excellence (https://www.chghospitals.com/). 

Welcome to our team and congratulations on your graduation from WCU!

Pictured from left to right: Marcus Gitterlee, MD, Katie Decena, FNP-C, Christine Rodriguez, ANCC, FNP-BC, RoxsAnne Greaud APRN, ACNP-BC, Tekisha Murphy, APRN, FNP-C, and David Jones FNP-C

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