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Volume 8 Issue 1 - January/February 2014

News Update
02/14/2014
Innovative Wound Imaging Debuts in Outpatient Clinics   A wound care service company has helped bring new technology into the outpatient wound clinic setting that is expected to help providers see wounds in a new, improved way. Wound Care...
Innovative Wound Imaging Debuts in Outpatient Clinics   A wound care service company has helped bring new technology into the outpatient wound clinic setting that is expected to help providers see wounds in a new, improved way. Wound Care...
Innovative Wound Imaging Debuts...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
02/14/2014
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM is on the horizon, and it will soon be essential for all wound care practitioners to refine their documentation skills in preparation for the new coding format. In an effort to assist our readers as they transition...
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM is on the horizon, and it will soon be essential for all wound care practitioners to refine their documentation skills in preparation for the new coding format. In an effort to assist our readers as they transition...
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM is on...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
02/14/2014
  More than 100 years ago, Ollier performed the first reported split-thickness skin graft (STSG) containing epidermis and dermis.1 A century later, wound closure remains the therapeutic imperative and the goal of caring for any wound.2 Wound...
  More than 100 years ago, Ollier performed the first reported split-thickness skin graft (STSG) containing epidermis and dermis.1 A century later, wound closure remains the therapeutic imperative and the goal of caring for any wound.2 Wound...
  More than 100 years ago,...
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Today's Wound Clinic
02/14/2014
  Taking your wound clinic from concept, to construction, to completion, to compliance is an arduous process. With this checklist, Today’s Wound Clinic provides to-be wound clinic directors with an overview of the many parameters that must be...
  Taking your wound clinic from concept, to construction, to completion, to compliance is an arduous process. With this checklist, Today’s Wound Clinic provides to-be wound clinic directors with an overview of the many parameters that must be...
  Taking your wound clinic from...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
02/14/2014
  Chronic wounds affect millions of people, yet awareness of the epidemic is extremely limited. As wound care professionals, it is our responsibility to be stewards of the chronic wound epidemic by educating our physicians and communities to...
  Chronic wounds affect millions of people, yet awareness of the epidemic is extremely limited. As wound care professionals, it is our responsibility to be stewards of the chronic wound epidemic by educating our physicians and communities to...
  Chronic wounds affect millions...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
02/14/2014
  Many of the principle guidelines for appropriately preparing healthcare staff for the opening of a new wound clinic from an education perspective are more true today than ever before. However, with a changing healthcare climate that...
  Many of the principle guidelines for appropriately preparing healthcare staff for the opening of a new wound clinic from an education perspective are more true today than ever before. However, with a changing healthcare climate that...
  Many of the principle...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
02/14/2014
  On April 7, 2000, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (then named the Healthcare Financing Administration) issued requirements for provider-based departments and entities as part of the final rule that implemented the...
  On April 7, 2000, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (then named the Healthcare Financing Administration) issued requirements for provider-based departments and entities as part of the final rule that implemented the...
  On April 7, 2000, the Centers...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic

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Business Briefs
02/14/2014
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
02/14/2014
  Jeffrey (Jeff) Unger was born in West Reading, PA, April 19, 1952. He married Pamela Fenstermacher Unger in April of 1977. His sudden and unexpected passing this past fall shocked an entire community. But his fond memories continue to be...
  Jeffrey (Jeff) Unger was born in West Reading, PA, April 19, 1952. He married Pamela Fenstermacher Unger in April of 1977. His sudden and unexpected passing this past fall shocked an entire community. But his fond memories continue to be...
  Jeffrey (Jeff) Unger was born...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Facility in Focus
02/14/2014
For more photos from our visit to Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, visit http://www.todayswoundclinic.com/slideshow/facility-focus-wound-healing-las-vegas-safe-bet-desert-springs   Las Vegas — Delvin Lee has lived with HIV nearly 25...
For more photos from our visit to Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, visit http://www.todayswoundclinic.com/slideshow/facility-focus-wound-healing-las-vegas-safe-bet-desert-springs   Las Vegas — Delvin Lee has lived with HIV nearly 25...
For more photos from our visit...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic