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Wound Clinic News & Notes
Children’s Hospital Earns Excellence Award For Skin Safety
Members of the Pressure Ulcer Prevention (PUP) team at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, have been awarded the fifth annual 3M Award for Excellence in Skin Safety for achieving a significant decrease in pressure ulcer incidence hospital-wide. Members of the PUP team accepted the award at the opening ceremonies of the 48th Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN®) Society in Montreal, Quebec. The award is sponsored by 3M and the WOCN Society.
“Despite the perception that pressure ulcers only affect adults, infants and children are at risk for pressure ulcers while receiving medical care,” said Rebekah Barrette, MS, RN, PCNS-BC, WCC, wound and skin care clinical nurse specialist at Children’s and PUP team co-lead. “Our team continually refines our approach to help achieve better outcomes and ensure every child is safe in our care.”
The PUP team executed training techniques and personalization to each patient by identifying primary issues that may affect a patient’s recovery and mitigate the threats of developing skin breakdown due to irritation and disruption to the patient’s skin. In addition to educating staff nurses about prevention, assessment, and pressure ulcer treatment, the team also implemented specific prevention bundles for children at high risk and developed a real-time data collection system to assist in connecting the change in practice to improved patient outcomes.
3M sponsors the award to recognize healthcare facilities that have implemented a patient care regimen resulting in improved skin integrity and skin health, officials said. To compete for the award, facilities across the nation were invited by the WOCN Society to submit summaries of skin-care programs that have achieved measurable and sustained results that also demonstrate best-in-class prevention protocols, product formulary, interdisciplinary participation, senior leadership engagement, as well as creative and effective staff and patient education.
“We selected the Children’s team for this award for their innovative, hands-on, peer-to-peer education model for identifying high-risk patients and implementing evidence-based pressure ulcer prevention strategies,” said WOCN Society president Carolyn Watts, MSN, RN, CWON. “Our organization is truly thankful to continue our partnership with 3M in recognizing our specialty’s standout caregivers for their remarkable dedication to improving patient care.”
For more information about the award and how to enter next year’s competition, visit www.3m.com/skinaward.
Wound Care Entrepreneur Joins College Board
Jonathan Rotella, president and chief executive officer of NexGen Hyperbaric LLC, Avon, CO, and The Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine LLC, has been appointed to the advancement board of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, reportedly the third largest medical school in the United States. Rotella, a self-made healthcare entrepreneur, operates numerous state-of-the-art hyperbaric wound care centers across the country. The centers provide hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and care for complicated wounds, burns, radiation, and compression injuries.
“I feel that the best way we can change the future health of our communities is by training the next generation of physicians in models of care that empower and encourage innovative thinking and a focus on what is best for the patient,” said college dean, Paula M. Crone, DO. “Mr. Rotella’s leadership, insight, and energy are a welcome addition to advancement board.”
NexGen Hyperbaric and Rotella are reportedly developing new treatment protocols with HBOT and adding additional centers within the U.S. to treat traumatic brain injuries and concussions, focusing on athletes and veterans.
“Like my own business, the medical school focuses on holistic, humanistic healthcare committed to healing patients with purpose and passion,” Rotella said
Wound Specialist Joins Massachusetts Hospital Network
James Ivers, MD, has joined Oriol Health Care, Holden, MA, as a consulting wound physician, according to The Landmark newspaper. Ivers will be rounding at multiple Oriol facilities as needed to assess wounds. Ivers also
provides outpatient wound care at VOHRA Wound
Physicians.
Texas Wound Center Names New CNO
The Wound Healing Center at Titus Regional Medical Center, Mount Pleasant, TX, has appointed Lindsay Beasley, BSN, RN, as clinical nurse manager. Beasley’s responsibilities will include providing continuity of care for patients, integrating new therapies into care, and training new personnel. A resident of the area, Beasley most recently served as case manager in the wound center at Good Sheppard Medical Center in Longview. Beasley holds a bachelor of science degree in nursing science from the University of Texas.
Middle School Students Get Wound Care Education
Students at Cañon City (CO) Middle School recently received an education on chronic wound care through a partnership with their school and providers at nearby St. Thomas More Hospital during an inaugural Health Care Career Visit event. According to the Daily Record newspaper, 43 students from all three grade levels went to the hospital to learn about the many possibilities that are available locally in the healthcare profession, including wound care, radiology, hematology, and the operating room.
Students were allowed to ask questions about the many career fields associated with healthcare, and the questions reportedly varied from educational requirements, salaries, and the day-to-day activities in the various areas of healthcare.
“It was nice to see local professionals interact with our students in a professional and career-oriented manner,” said Randy Smith, counselor at Cañon City Middle School.
Wound Care Center Wins Marketing Award
The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NH, has received a Lamplighter Award of Excellence for its integrated marketing campaign developed together with marketing agency Rumbletree Strategic and Creative Marketing. The winning campaign was reportedly comprised of digital and traditional tactics as well as television, social media, and media planning and strategy. The award was recently presented at the New England Society for Healthcare Communications during the Annual Lamplighter Awards Show in Providence, RI. In 2016, the wound center earned the Healogics Center of Excellence award for the fourth consecutive year — only one of two hospitals in New Hampshire to earn this award, according to hospital officials.
“The wound care center campaign elevated Frisbie’s ability to communicate to our community the program’s success in achieving high levels of patient satisfaction, healing rates, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy technology as a means to the ultimate goal: a better quality of life,” said Joe Shields, senior vice president of Frisbie Memorial Hospital.
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