Specialized Virtual Nursing Can Ease LTC Staffing Challenges
Katherine Piette, Co-founder & CEO The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has placed a spotlight on nursing homes and the issues that they...
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Wound Expertise - A Key Competency for Utilization Management Organizations
By Alicia Jenkins, Director of Clinical Services How does a WOC nurse support the goals of a post-acute Utilization Management company?...
Virtualizing the Wound & Ostomy Program: The Build vs. Outsource Decision
With the help of specific technologies, virtualizing the Wound & Ostomy consultation is now available to the post-acute environment....
At the Heart of Home Care
By Kathy Pruitt My new role with Corstrata has taken my life in an interesting direction! Corstrata is not an EHR company like those I...
Virtualizing the Wound Consult: Telehealth for Wounds ‘just makes sense’
Frequently, I’m asked why... Why wounds? Why ostomies? Why telehealth with Corstrata? Even though I see the future unfolding for the...
2020 in Review, but 2021 is a Year of Change
Author: Joseph Ebberwein, Co-Founder and CFO, Corstrata, Inc. January brings a time of reflection for the previous year’s learnings and...
Establishing a Tech-Enabled, Wound Program of Excellence
Technology is here to stay and nothing has accelerated Telehealth and other mobile health solutions like what we have experienced during...
Wound Programs Evolving
Driven by the new PDGM reimbursement, Wound Care Programs are fast evolving for Home Health organizations. It’s no longer enough to...
Corstrata makes SNF-at-home and SNF-to-home a real for patient choice!
Talk has occurred for years regarding healthcare coming back to the home and community. A decade of demonstration projects for...
Telehealth is Here, But Must Continue to Evolve!
When my partner and I started Corstrata a few years ago, we could have never predicted the flood gates that COVID-19 would open. We...
In-Home Wound Care Programs: The Solution for COVID-19 and Beyond
For years, outpatient wound care clinics have dominated the landscape in the care of patients with recurring, chronic wounds, with more...
What’s your Strategy for Marketing Your Wound Program to Key Referral Partners?
Given that home health patients with wounds are in the clinical grouping with the highest potential reimbursement (estimated 30-day...
What if there was an “Easy Button” for wound care?
Why Can’t Wounds Be A Positive For Home Health With PDGM Rather Than A Source Of Frustration? Everyone in Home Health is preparing for...
Building a Wound Program of Excellence Under PDGM
PDGM (Patient Driven Groupings Model), will go into effect at the start of 2020. It is the most significant change in Medicare...
The Latest Legislative Activity on Telehealth Services
Recently, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017 was reintroduced by...
The Key Questions for the AHRQ Systematic Review
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a division of the Health and Human Services Department recently published in the...
Wound Care Inefficiencies in Home Health and Hospice
We know that value-based care is here to stay. No matter what changes come with healthcare reform in Washington, most healthcare leaders...
Telehealth: More Than Just Technology
Technology is a tool to enable or facilitate solving a problem or making a process more efficient. In telehealth technology - whether it...
Is Value-Based Care Going Away in 2017?
While there is much debate going on in Washington, DC, as to the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) given the new administration in...
A Meaningful “Win” -- A Reflection by CEO Katherine Piette
This blog is a slight departure from prior blogs given it is a bit more personal in nature. This past week, I had the privilege to be a...
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