Ochsner Extended Care Hospital Partners with WoundCentrics

Press Release: For Immediate Release

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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