Legal Implications for Wound Care Part 1: Wound Assessment
By Alicia Jenkins, BS, RN, CWCN The care of patients with wounds, along with any related documentation, has significant legal...
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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...
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...
Corstrata Wound Care Experts Published on Readiness for PDGM
November 17, 2019
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...
Corstrata Announces CE Courses Series: Wound Basics
Corstrata is pleased to announce the launch of our wound educational offerings. As experts in wound management and prevention, our team...
Surprising Stats and Solutions for Venous Leg Ulcers
According to an article published on the website of the National Institutes of Health, Human Skin Wounds: A Major and Snowballing Threat...
Celebrating National Nurses Week with Corstrata
We're halfway through National Nurse's Week, and we at Corstrata want to take the time to acknowledge our wonderful nursing staff for all...
Corstrata Wound Care Experts Published on Telemedicine Solutions
Corstrata wound care experts published in Today’s Wound Clinic a paper asserting the clinical and financial benefits of telemedicine in...
ATA Annual Conference 2017: Here's What We Learned
We highlighted in our blog some time ago that Telehealth is much more than technology. We explained that Telehealth is a tool to be used...
The Importance of Organized Home Health and Hospice Wound Care
As a former home health and hospice manager responsible for overseeing quality improvement, I witnessed the following scenario playing...
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...
Key Takeaways from DFCon 2017 in Houston
WOW! Where do I start?! I had the great fortune to attend the 2017 DFCon (Diabetic Foot Conference) last week in Houston, for the first...
Our Thoughts on the March 2017 MedPAC Report
Well, there were no big surprises from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) most recent report to Congress (March 2017)....
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...
Care Coordination as a Key Component of Value-Based Care
To effectively move healthcare toward the goal of true value-based care, providers must be able to identify those patients who are at the...
