Skilled Nursing Facilities

Operators and administrators of Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) are under intense scrutiny by federal and state regulators, payers, and consumers. WoundExpert® advances SNF wound care best practices for improved resident quality of care, better financial results and improved healing outcomes. WoundExpert addresses the market-driven and government-mandated challenges that SNFs face in today’s constantly changing environment.

Key Features Include:

Reduced Liability Exposure
WoundExpert uses the Braden Scale to help identify your population at high risk for developing nosocomial pressure ulcers and recommends risk-appropriate plans of care. By identifying the high risk residents and initiating preventive measures, WoundExpert provides a powerful means of reducing nosocomial wounds. WoundExpert extends your resident risk profiling by including Pain, Nutrition, and Fall Risk Assessments complete with care plans.

Prevalence and Incidence Reporting
Real-time prevalence and incidence reports, filterable by unit or floor, can be run for any time period with a single click of the mouse. This eliminates the resource–intensive method of creating these reports and leaves your wound care team with more time for resident care.

Standardized Documentation
WoundExpert integrates and supplements SNF Minimum Data Set (MDS) documentation, providing detailed resident wound tracking – from assessments and care planning through final outcomes. WoundExpert’s comprehensive documentation reduces liability exposure by demonstrating the detailed, chronological sequence of care, treatments and interventions provided by your staff.

Survey Preparedness
WoundExpert facilitates Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and State's Department of Health documentation requirements and inspections, ensuring onsite inspection preparedness. WoundExpert supports evdienced-based protocols of care for pressure ulcers (F-Tag 314) and other wounds defined by quality of care (F-Tag 309) standards. All supportive survey documentation - assessments, treatments, and outcomes - can be easily viewed and analyzed ensuring the higest standards of resident care.

Cost Containment
WoundExpert wound and treatment tracking allows wound programs to standardize patient care for better cost containment and improved clinical outcomes. The combiniation of wound specific cost reports with our aggressive pressure ulcer prevention programs effectively utilize limited staff resources, operate more cost efficiently, standardize patient care for improved clinical outcomes and improve bottom line financials.

Operational Flexibility
WoundExpert’s scheduler is an invaluable asset to assure the documentation of all resident wound encounters. Additionally, the calendar feature ensures recurring follow-up observations necessitated by the treatment protocol are not overlooked.

Improved Communications
WoundExpert supports the generation, customization, and retention of communications to Primary Care Physicians, external service providers, and family members who require disclosure, progress toward healing, and intervention status.