Grane Healthcare
Grane Healthcare Improves Productivity and Survey Preparedness with WoundExpert
“The long term facilities managed by Grane Healthcare utilize WoundExpert to identify and reduce risk. In addition to
guaranteeing that we have a comprehensive note, WoundExpert provides detailed oversight of all facets of the our Wound Management Program.”
Beth Lengle, RLNC
Vice President of Nursing Services
Grane Healthcare
“The quality of care the residents receive is the facililities’ foremost goal. WoundExpert enables the staff to save
time, allowing them to spend more time with residents.”
Sue Munoz
Quality Improvement Nurse Consultant
Grane Healthcare
Grane Healthcare, based in Southwestern Pennsylvania, provides a broad range of consulting services to older adults, including: assisted living, skilled nursing, rehabilitative care, and specialty care services. An industry innovator and thought leader, Grane manages 12 long term care facilities and was one of the first management companies in the industry to offer a wound prevention and treatment program (2000) for residents.
Developed in partnership with Net Health Systems, Grane’s Wound Management Program utilizes WoundExpert® to recommend wound prevention and treatment plans of care specific to the individual resident. By helping wounds heal more quickly, the facilites managed by Grane afford residents greater comfort and improved quality of life.
The Wound Management Program is delivered by a multidisciplinary team of medical and clinical specialists, including Wound Care Coordinators in each facility specifically trained in wound care.
WoundExpert enables the Wound Care Coordinators to schedule, complete and document all preventive and wound treatments in a timely, compliant, and efficient manner. WoundExpert’s integrated calendar/scheduler assures all resident wound encounters are recorded and recurring follow-up observations necessitated by the treatment protocol are not overlooked.
Time with residents is a priority, since pressure ulcers represent a financial burden and risk exposure for long term care facilities. Pressure ulcers increase utilization of staff resources for treatment, documentation, monitoring and follow-up. Pressure ulcers are also a source of diminished resident quality of life nuisance litigation and claim settlements.
WoundExpert eliminates the traditionally resource intensive methods for generating internal management reports and compliance tracking, allowing the staff to spend more time providing care to residents.
The staff utilizes WoundExpert’s automated Braden assessment to identify residents with elevated risk levels of skin breakdown across all facilities.
“WoundExpert allows me to review resident Braden Scores across all facilities assuring compliance with the prevention and treatment policies and protocols,” notes Sue.
Combining intelligence gained from WoundExpert reporting with aggressive pressure ulcer prevention and treatment protocols is key. Since implementing WoundExpert, pressure ulcer prevalence is down; today, the prevalence in Grane managed facilities is 80+% less than similar-sized facilities across the U.S., <3% vs. 16-18%.
The facilities’ staff uses WoundExpert to monitor resident wound healing progress and make recommendations to the multidisciplinary team. It helps the staff keep residents informed throughout treatment, assuring residents and family members understand the plan of care rationale.
WoundExpert is used to generate, customize and retain all protocol required communications with resident Primary Care Physicians and family members. Timely, thorough communications – interventions, status observations, progress - with all parties reduces the risk of litigation.
Finally, WoundExpert makes it easier for compliance with CMS, and state Department of Health documentation requirements, improving onsite survey preparedness.
“During State Surveys, the Wound Care Coordinators are able to immediately respond to the requests of the surveyors,” concludes Sue. “The information and assessments of the residents are only a click away. The Wound Care Coordinators are confident that the information submitted is legible, thorough, and concise.”
WoundExpert’s comprehensive documentation provides a detailed, chronological sequence of care provided by the multidisciplinary wound care team, mitigating risk.
WoundExpert helps improve treatment outcomes and supports the identification of best practices across all facilities to assure resident care consistency, a critical success factor in achieving improved healing outcomes.
