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Components For A Successful Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center, Part 1
In this article we are uncovering one of the component that make a successful hyperbaric and wound care center by answering the question of, "WHO Needs To Be Involved?"
Each hospital has stakeholders who should have input into the planning stage.
Executive Leadership
We'll start with the C-Suite, Executive Leadership's role in a successful wound care and hyperbaric center.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Must be willing to support the idea of a wound center, be able to sell it to the hospital board or governing authority & decide on a reporting structure
Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Must allocate adequate monies towards the wound center opening and operations.
Medical Director/ Physician Champion: Requires physician engagement/support for the idea of the wound center; determine physician interest in staffing the wound center.
Hospital Departments
There are many departments within the hospital that play a key role in the success of your wound care & hyperbaric center. If you don't yet know the personnel within these departments, it's time to start networking. Carving out even 30 minutes a day will help you get started.
Facility Planning: Construction/Remodeling of Space
Patient Financial Services Director: Perform Charge Description Master (CDM) changes/ additions. Set the billing process, changes & mechanism for charge capturing of wound center services.
Health Information Management (HIM) & Information Technology (IT): Team with Information Technology for selection of wound care EHR, ensure interface application. Ensures accuracy of diagnosis and procedure coding for billing based on provider clinical documentation.
Information Technology (IT): Team with HIM Director to use a dedicated wound care EMR or use hospital EMR at a minimum, addition of data/telephone lines, interfacing application with hospital departments.
Marketing: Develop both internal and external marketing plans.
Materials Management (Supplies): Initiate process for determining start-up inventory for supplies, equipment, determine inventory adjustments based on patient volumes, team with wound center/hyperbaric on specific vendors to have materials in place for opening & ongoing services.
Pharmacy: Initiate process for determining start-up inventory of medications: anesthetics- topical or injectables, topical debriding agent, etc.
Specialized Personnel Teams
Nursing: Assess your need for initial and ongoing nursing staff depending on increasing patient volumes; develop specific policies and procedure for your wound care/hyperbaric center. (Pro Tip: Best Publishing Company has a customizable template for your Policies and Procedures Manual, find it here .
Human Resources (HRD): Work with your HR to determine job descriptions and to do the hiring of staff.
Environmental Maintenance: Cleaning / linen procedures, restocking linens, hazard waste removal procedure
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Source: This article was first published by the Hyperbaric Certification. It is republished here with permission.
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