HealthTrust’s Clinical Services team, under the direction of Chief Medical Officer John Young, M.D., MBA, hosted a Wound Management Collaborative Summit in mid-September.

Attendees included 45 representatives from Beaumont Health, CHRISTUS Health, Community Health Systems, HCA Healthcare, Hospital Sisters Health System, Kindred Healthcare, LifePoint Health, Scripps and WellSpan Health.

Similar to the collaborative pain management and AMI summits HealthTrust has hosted in recent years, this highly interactive, two-day workshop involved teams of three to five people from different institutions working together. Participants shared the current states of their wound management programs, identified key challenges and expressed what they hoped to learn as a result of participating.

The goal of the collaborative summit was to serve as a platform for participants to review literature and current practices in managing wound care patients; interact with subject matter experts; and, through breakouts and brainstorming sessions, share knowledge and experiences to establish the “ideal” wound care practice. With all of this knowledge, IDN-specific teams then worked to develop customized action plans to take home and drive progress in addressing care variation, rising costs and managing patients in need of wound care across their health system.

As a result of collaboration, member attendees now have a network of peers to engage with for continued interaction and learning. The group will reconvene by videoconference in December to monitor progress. The Q1 edition of The Source features attendee interviews as well as updates on their action plans.

Participating HealthTrust Physician Advisors included wound care expert Caroline Fife, M.D.; plastic surgeons Salvatore Pacella, M.D., and Aron Wahrman, M.D.; and podiatrists Bert Altmanshofer, DPM, and Dean Vayser, DPM. Industry expert Kathleen Schaum shared her knowledge of wound care reimbursement and guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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