Opening of outpatient wound care clinic at Laredo Specialty Hospital

In collaboration with Ernest Health Inc, WoundCentrics is pleased to announce the opening of an outpatient wound care clinic at Laredo Specialty Hospital, 2005 Bustamante Street in Laredo, Texas.

Utilizing a multi-disciplinary, team approach the Laredo Specialty wound care clinic will deliver advanced wound care utilizing the latest modalities and, where indicated, hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a comprehensive strategy to address complex patient wounds. These strategies are tailored to the specific need of the patient in a plan of care that supports the healing process and is designed to improve overall health of the patient. Dr. Gilberto Garza-Lozano, a trained hyperbaricist and Internal Medicine specialist with extensive ties to the Laredo community, serves as Medical Director for the clinic. 

Complications from diabetes is a major issue in South Texas. Laredo Specialty recognized the need for a wound care clinic dedicated to addressing wound issues related to diabetes as well as soft tissue or surgical infection, radiation damage and other causes. WoundCentrics was chosen to partner with Laredo Specialty due to our commitment to treating the whole patient with clinical best practices as well as our involvement and engagement with the entire health care continuum in the community. The whole goal is to ensure patients with wounds in the Laredo community receive the very best of care.

This differentiated approach to the full-spectrum treatment of wound patients, performed in conjunction with our sister company (Wound Care Specialists of America), has proven extremely effective at our 5 clinics in the San Antonio metro area. It is why we are being approached to replicate this model in other communities throughout the country.

If interested in finding out how to partner with WoundCentrics to provide inpatient or outpatient wound care services, please contact us.

National Association of Long Term Hospitals (NALTH) Wound Care Symposium San Antonio, TX September 28-29, 2015

A note from Dr. Gitterle,

The future of wound care in the long-term acute care hospital setting is a troubling concern. Without a clear vision and plan for dealing with impending changes to admission requirements for wounds and acceptance of IPPS patients, some fear that LTACHS will no longer be able to provide the critical capabilities they offer to patients with limb and life-threatening wounds.

The National Association of Long Term Hospitals (NALTH) is conducting a wound care symposium in San Antonio, TX on September 28-29, 2015. At this conference I will be giving a presentation specifically devoted to addressing these concerns. 

WoundCentrics Extends Partnership with Post-Acute Medical

In May, 2015, WoundCentrics extended our growing relationship with Post Acute Medical, by deploying inpatient woundcare services in the Post Acute Specialty Hospital of Corpus Christi, North.

In addition to providing woundcare specialty services in both the North and South Corpus Christi LTACs, WoundCentrics is rolling out a community-wide woundcare outreach program, servicing the Corpus Christi Metro area.

WoundCentrics Announces Partnership with Ernest Health

WoundCentrics has partnered with Ernest Health to provide services at Laredo Specialty Hospital, in Laredo, Texas.

Our innovative inpatient woundcare program was launched at Laredo Specialty in June, 2015, and we anticipate the opening of an outpatient Woundcare and Hyperbaric Center By end of Summer, 2015.

We look forward to working with Ernest Health to bring needed services and optimizations to the growing Laredo Metropolitan service area.

WoundCentrics Inpatient Programs Launched in Texarkana, Texas

On June 1, 2015, WoundCentrics providers began providing inpatient care at Post Acute Medical Specialty Hospital North, and Post Acute Medical Specialty Hospital South, both in Texarkana, Texas. These LTACs were recently acquired by Post Acute Medical from their former operator, Christus Dubuis.

Services include the full spectrum of WoundCentrics inpatient services, as well as the establishment of a community-wide umbrella program serving local and regional Skilled Nursing Facilities, as well as Health South Rehabilitation Hospital of Texarkana.

WoundCentrics, LLC Offering Innovative LTAC HBOT Services

Offering HBOT as part of an LTAC service mix can strongly differentiate an LTAC within a local or regional marketplace, but this marketplace advantage comes with financial and management challenges that dissuade most LTACs from offering a hyperbaric service line.

Traditionally, HBOT has been viewed as a necessary evil by LTACs whom embrace this complex and expensive clinical capability. Why? HBOT is expensive to deploy, expensive to manage, and frankly, does little or nothing to directly enhance the bottom line of most LTACs that offer this service line.

We believe that HBOT can be delivered in a way that actually drives LTAC revenue, while enhancing referrals, without significant capital expenditures. WoundCentrics can deliver a profitable HBOT program within your LTAC, providing state-of-the-art care, full stewardship of inpatient woundcare, proprietary program optimization services, without capital expenditures on the part of your facility.

What does a WoundCentrics LTAC HBOT program look like? While there is no "one size fits all" solution in healthcare today, an optimal HBOT facility for your LTAC will provide you with the capability to deliver revenue neutral hyperbaric oxygen therapy to inpatients, while deriving perennial profits and referrals from a thriving outpatient woundcare program.

Best of all, our risk shifting model places the burden on us to realize the many benefits of HBOT within your LTAC facilities. All too often, HBOT has been a losing proposition in the LTAC. WoundCentrics, LLC is committed to changing this dynamic, by creating programs that drive referrals, enhance patient care, strongly differentiate LTACs within their markets, and provide strong outpatient services revenue. All this without encumbering capital, or creating complicated and expensive internal management structures, or increasing the cost of inpatient care.

Let our experts analyze your site-specific HBOT opportunities. A WoundCentrics, LLC HBOT clinic may be the key to vaulting your facilities to the top, within their regional markets.

WoundCentrics, LLC now serving three Post Acute Medical Facilities

Post Acute Medical is justifiably renowned for their stewardship in long term acute care and licensed rehabilitation, and we are proud to extend our partnership to include three Post Acute facilities in the Texas region.

These facilities include Warm Springs Specialty Hospital of New Braunfels, Warm Springs Specialty Hospital of Luling, and Post Acute Specialty Hospital of Corpus Christi. WoundCentrics has been providing services in the New Braunfels, Texas facility since 2011. We began providing services in the Corpus Christi facility in December, 2013, and in Luling, Texas in February 2014.

WoundCentrics, LLC provides our full, System-Based LTAC Woundcare program in these facilities, including trained specialists providing clinical excellence, and ongoing oversight and optimization services integral to long-term success.

We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with Post Acute Medical, and relish the opportunity to help them deliver a best of breed woundcare service line, that also optimizes their bottom line, while attracting referrals of consistently high acuity across these regions.

Woundcentrics, LLC Providing Services for Post-Acute Medical Facility

Woundcentrics, LLC began providing LTAC woundcare services for a Post-Acute Medical LTAC located in New Braunfels, Texas, in November, 2012. The facility, Warm Springs Specialty Hospital of New Braunfels, is part of the respected, Post-Acute family of hospitals, based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. A premier provider of LTAC and Rehabilitation services, Post-Acute operates 20 facilities in Texas and Louisiana.

Woundcentrics, LLC is proud to partner with Post-Acute, and we look forward to many years of fruitful collaboration, as we facilitate their mission of providing excellent, broad-based LTAC and Rehabilitation services, and building centers of excellence for Woundcare.

Warm Springs Specialty Hospital of New Braunfels is now staffed by a Woundcentrics, LLC trained Woundcare team, including a Nurse Practitioner, and a Woundcare Certified physician providing Woundcare Medical Director services. A woundcare EMR has been implemented, allowing tracking of wound progress parameters, as well as facility woundcare metrics, as well as the ability to determine total cost of care down to the individual wound, patient, wound type across facility, and time period. The EMR also facilitates close QA/QI, coding, and tracking of metrics and events germane to CMI.