When it comes to better wound care, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) often provide critical support in the early stages of treatment. These facilities play a vital role in ensuring comfort, stabilizing conditions, and preventing complications. However, many hospitals and SNFs face challenges they aren’t always equipped to fully heal. That doesn’t mean that you simply have to go without. Through our partnerships with SNFs, we can provide the kind of healing that makes it so that you and yours don’t have to go through readmissions.
Wound healing is a specialized process that requires a blend of advanced techniques, expert oversight, and consistent care. By working alongside SNFs, we’re able to provide focused and holistic wound care services aimed at promoting faster recovery, reducing hospital readmissions, and so much more.
Wound Healing in Hospitals and SNFs
Hospitals excel at treating acute, life-threatening conditions and stabilizing patients in critical moments. Similarly, SNFs provide essential post-acute care, offering support like physical therapy, medication administration, and monitoring. While these institutions are invaluable, their services are often not designed to address the complexities of wound healing.
Wounds, particularly chronic ones, require specialized care plans and long-term strategies that go beyond the immediate scope of most hospitals and SNFs. Key challenges include:
- Limited resources. Many facilities lack access to advanced wound care technology or the specialized expertise necessary for complex wound healing.
- Time constraints. Hospital staff and SNF caregivers are often stretched thin, juggling numerous patients and competing priorities.
- High turnover. Staff turnover in SNFs and hospitals can disrupt continuity of care, making consistent wound management more challenging.
This gap in care can increase the likelihood of patients experiencing complications, delayed healing, and readmissions all of which can be emotionally taxing for patients and financially draining for healthcare systems.
Our Better Wound Care Solutions
Wound healing requires a deep level of knowledge and experience that is often not available in general healthcare settings. Our team of experts includes specially trained wound care technicians who bring advanced skills to the table. We’re equipped to manage complex conditions such as pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, and surgical wounds.
By partnering with SNFs, We can bridge the gap in expertise, ensuring that patients receive the focused attention their wounds need. This can significantly improve healing outcomes and reduce the risk of preventable complications.
On-Site Care in SNFs and Beyond
One of the benefits of our mobile wound care services is the ability to meet patients where they are. For SNFs, this means our technicians can visit patients directly within the facility, offering personalized care without requiring patients to travel.
During on-site visits, our technicians perform detailed assessments, develop tailored treatment plans, and monitor progress through regular follow-ups. Services also include skin sweeps, which help identify new or emerging wounds early on, preventing them from worsening.
Comprehensive Post-Discharge Care
The challenge of effective care doesn’t end when a patient is discharged from a hospital or SNF. Many individuals are sent home with instructions to manage wounds independently, but without the right support, these wounds can regress. Whether at home or in outpatient settings, with our care, patients can continue their healing journeys under expert supervision, benefiting from added peace of mind and continuity of care.
Preventing Readmissions Through Proactive Treatment
Hospital readmissions are often a result of complications or worsening conditions that weren’t fully addressed during initial care. For wounds, this could mean infections, poor healing, or the formation of new pressure ulcers.
By introducing proactive and specialized wound care within SNFs, we can stop that from happening. This not only benefits individual patients by improving their quality of life and accelerating recovery but also helps the broader healthcare system by reducing avoidable hospital stays.
A Partnership for Better Wound Care
Partnerships between our wound healing techs and SNFs go beyond individual patients. Together, we create a system that supports everyone involved in the care process, including staff, patients, and their families.
Supporting SNF Staff
Collaborating alleviates some of the burden on overworked SNF staff by giving them access to specialists who can provide specialized types of wound healing that they may not be able to. This allows staff to focus more effectively on their other responsibilities, improving overall efficiency within the facility.
Enhancing Patient Trust
When patients and their families see that SNFs have partnered with dedicated care experts, it reinforces their trust and confidence in the care provided. Trust is a key factor in patient satisfaction and can influence the reputation of the facility.
Promoting Education and Awareness
Our role typically doesn’t stop at clinical care. We can also provide education and resources to SNF staff, helping them better understand best practices for wound prevention and early intervention. This shared knowledge empowers facilities to build a culture of proactive health management.
Community-Focused Wound Healing
Since the beginning, our mission has been about so much more than just healing wounds. It’s about fostering a community of care that brings together hospitals, SNFs, and patients to achieve shared goals. This care model emphasizes accessibility, affordability, and holistic healing, ensuring that every patient has the opportunity to recover in the best way possible.
SNFs and hospitals don’t have to go it alone. We offer the specialized expertise and personalized attention necessary to make lasting changes in patient outcomes and healthcare processes. From helping reduce readmissions to delivering peace of mind for families, we’re here to help all involved. To see how we can help you, reach out today.