Long Term Acute Care
Long Term Acute Care (LTAC)
Many LTAC patients experience extended hospital stays or surgical interventions resulting in non-healing wounds. With Medicare as the primary LTAC patients’ care payer and Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) determining services reimbursement payments, proactive pressure ulcer prevention, optimal staffing, quality outcome measurement, and rigorous cost containment are essential for financial viability.
Key Features Include:
Proactive Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Most LTAC patients have an increased risk for pressure ulcer development as a result of immobility – ventilator support, COPD, CHF – and WoundExpert’s
Braden Scale assessment identifies patients at risk of developing nosocomial Pressure Ulcers. WoundExpert enhances implementation of Pressure Ulcer
prevention strategies, thereby preventing complications increasing a patient’s length of stay.
Wound Care / Prevention Teams
WoundExpert supports the implementation of multidisciplinary wound care / prevention teams. This approach ensures the provision of more consistent care,
utilizing protocols with physician and specialist consults if healing does not progress.
Comprehensive Documentation and Reporting
WoundExpert provides the ability to define best practice plans of care for specific wound etiologies, while treatment and wound assessment data
provide content for reports to measure the efficacy and efficiency of those care plans. The real time availability of wound type, prevalence and incidence,
and healing rates ensures a consistent standard of care according to established protocols of evidence-based practices.
Regulatory Compliance
WoundExpert enables compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated reporting on service area, case mix and referral sources.
WoundExpert also facilitates tracking of wound patient relapse, recurrence and hospital
readmission resulting from wound-related complications.
Quality Outcome Measurement WoundExpert corporate benchmarking and reporting provides a solid foundation for qualitative outcomes measurement. Individual site and aggregate enterprise clinical, operational and financial reporting facilitates the identification of best practices across the organization.
Rigorous Cost Containment and Reimbursement WoundExpert documents wound type and other assessment data and facilitates improved assignment of DRG and appropriate billing for LTAC services provided. WoundExpert allows LTACs to enter products and services provided to each patient along with unit cost data and provides cost reports according to patient and wound type.
