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• The Q2 Buyer's Guide is Available Now VGM & Associates is excited to announce that the second quarter Digital Buyer's Guide has been released. The latest edition can be downloaded now.
• Cost Effective Wound Care Management Practices Director of VGM Wound Care, Heather Trumm talks with vendor partner, Dermarite about cost effective wound management without compromising the value of the products.
• VGM Wound Care Launches New Program Guide The Wound Care Program Guide is your resource on how to determine if a wound care program is right for your business, how to get started, developing your program, and provides resources and contacts.
• The First Quarterly Buyer's Guide Is Available Now VGM & Associates has released a new resource for our members, our Quarterly Buyer's Guide.
• VGM Wound Care and Permobil Discuss the Importance of Seated Posture In this episode of industry matters Director of Wound Care, Heather Trumm, talks with Stacey Mullis, Director of Clinical Marketing at Permobil, where “Every person has the right to have his or her disability compensated as far as possible by aids with the same technical standard as those we all use in our daily lives.” Heather and Stacy are going to dive right into dive into something that is often overlooked, and that is seated posture in wound care.
• Discover Why All Providers Need to Know About Wound Care Listen in as we talk with Heather Trumm, Director of VGM Wound Care about the importance of all DMEPOS providers paying attention to wound care. Heather also covers new education materials available for VGM Members, and resources that can help you get started in wound care.
• Breaking Down PDPM and PDGM with VGM Wound Care and 3M Reimbursement changes can be a challenge to keep track of in the healthcare industry. Heather Trumm, Director of VGM Wound Care interviews Yesenia Banks, Reimbursement Manager of 3M KCI, to help us better understand the recent Medicare reimbursement changes known as PDPM and PDGM.
• DMEPOS Warriors: Sue Currence, BSN, RN, WOCN for Austin Pharmacy & Medical Supplies Meet Sue Currence, BSN, RN, WOCN for Austin Pharmacy & Medical Supplies, a VGM member since 2016! As a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse (WOCN), Sue has a vast knowledge of the wound care industry. We asked Sue about her experience with wound care and its importance as a specialty in the home medical equipment industry.
• New Educational Courses From VGM Wound Care Skin health affects every single customer of an HME provider. VGM Wound Care has the tools and solutions for the HME industry to thrive in the wound care market, including three new educational resources that have just been released. These “Wound Care 101” courses cover the basics of wound care pertaining to skin and the healing process, surgical dressings and debridement, and therapeutic support surfaces.
• Blast Away BioFilm with BlastX What is biofilm? Wound care clinicians know this term very well because it's a road block to wound healing. I recently learned about a new product and wanted to share. It's a product that will deconstruct and destroy biofilm and defend the wound from recolonization.
• Episode 42: The Four Pillars of Wound Care Host Brian Thompson discusses the four pillars of a great wound care program with Amanda Yavorsky of McKesson Medical/Surgical. A lot of providers believe that it's tough to turn a profit in wound care, but Amanda is here to tell you that this isn't necessarily the case if you know where to start. Help us blow up Heather Trumm's email! If you'd like more information about starting your own wound care program, contact [email protected]
• Member Q&A: Maximizing Profitability for Your Business Below are a series of questions that focus on generating revenue within different areas of your business.
• Worldwide Injury Prevention Day Declared Thursday, November 21 has been declared Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day by the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP). Healthcare professionals from around the world are raising awareness of the pressure injuries that are caused by medical devices.
• Q&A: Wound Care Supplies NOT Covered by Medicare Hello, fellow HME wound care members! Being in the wound care space, we have so many rules and regulations ...
• Wound Care HME Providers: What to Look for When Choosing a Vendor Partner By Heather Trumm, Director of VGM Wound Care As wound care HME providers, there are several important asp...
• Episode 27: Wound Care and Ostomy...More Than Skin Deep VGM recently launched a brand new wound care offering for members, VGM Wound Care. Categories of wound care covered in the program include dressings, therapeutic support surfaces, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), ostomy, compression and nutrition.
• Compression – Don't Let It Scare You By Heather Trumm, Director of VGM Wound Ca...
• How Diabetes Affects Wound Care With November being Diabetes Awareness Month and being a wound care nurse myself, I thought I would write ...