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• Engaging Referral Sources: Key to Effective Wound Care for HME Providers HME providers must engage with referral sources to ensure patients receive optimal care. This article highlights the importance of mastering communication with referral sources and offers strategies for success that can lead to improved patient outcomes.
• Value-Based Approaches to Wound Care Management In the context of wound care, value-based care emphasizes the importance of outcomes-driven, evidence-based treatment plans that reward the quality and efficiency of services.
• Breaking Into the Wound Care Space: How to be Successful in the Dressings Market To be successful in the wound care market, consider this five-step approach to breaking into the wound care space.
• Understanding Compression Therapy: A Vital Approach for Wound Management for Venous Insufficiency and Lymphedema There are various kinds of compression that can be used to treat wounds in the wound care field.
• Wound Care Essentials: Choosing the Right Medical Tape We may not realize it, but medical tapes are an essential part of proper wound care. When it comes to tape, where do we start?
• EleCare and EleCare Jr: Specialized Nutrition for Infants and Children with Food Allergies and GI Conditions EleCare is an amino acid-based, hypoallergenic, nutritionally complete formula. When used as the primary source of nutrition, it supports growth and improves symptoms of infants and children.
• Wound Care 101: A Guide for DMEPOS Providers VGM Wound Care presents a comprehensive program designed to assist members in effectively offering wound care products and services, meeting patient needs, and concurrently expanding their business revenue streams.
• Preventing Pressure Injuries: Your Guide to Pressure Injury Prevention Month November is a significant month for healthcare professionals and caregivers around the world as it marks Pressure Injury Prevention Month, particularly on 2023 Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day (November 16).
• Wound Healing Through Nutrition: Unveiling the Healing Power of Juven In today's episode, Heather Trumm, Director of VGM Wound Care, talks with Linda Murray from Abbott Nutrition about the important role nutrition plays in wound healing and how a simple drink can help heal wounds.
• Revitalizing Skin Wellness: A Critical Aspect of HME There are many reasons why skin health is so important in the HME space. The following information can help your customers maintain healthy skin and prevent wounds.
• How to Create a Successful Wound Care Program A wound can impact a patient's quality of life and can be very painful. Offering wound care dressings can differentiate your HME from others; however, making a successful wound care program starts with education.
• Healing Starts with Nutrition: Discover Nutritional Support for Patient Recovery When a person has a wound, whether it be a pressure injury, surgical wound, or burn, nutrition is a particularly important part of healing. Sometimes even a balanced diet with the right calories may not be enough to help a wound heal.
• Collagen: The Wound Healing Hero As HME providers, it is important to remain educated on all aspects of wound care to enhance the level of service to your customers, including how collagen impacts wound healing.
• Sunset Healthcare ‘Jumps Into' Wound Care Sunset Healthcare Solutions credits two partners, VGM & Associates and ZeniMedical, for its ability to seamlessly add wound care to its product portfolio, says PJ Ruflin, vice president of business development.
• VGM Wound Care Launches Enteral Nutrition Guide VGM Wound Care is excited to launch the new Enteral Nutrition Guide, a comprehensive resource offering invaluable insights, protocols, and guidance to seamlessly integrate enteral nutrition into an HME provider's wound care business.
• Unveiling the Healing Power: Revolutionize Your HME Business with Surgical Dressings VGM Wound Care has developed a turnkey program specifically designed to assist HME businesses considering adding surgical dressings to their current offerings.
• How Wound Care Can Help Grow Your DMEPOS Business June is a special month for the wound care community. Not only is the week of June 12– June 16, 2023, designated as Certified Wound Care Specialists Week, but the American Board of Wound Management (ABWM) Foundation designated the entire month of June as Wound Healing Awareness Month.
• Save Your Backs Did you know that there is a transfer mechanism in healthcare that requires a no-lifting, multi-functional device to assist caregivers in transferring their patients? It's true! One of our newer vendor partners, Human Care US, offers the Barton Convertible Chair, which enables caregivers to perform safe patient handling practices more efficiently and effectively. While I had heard about this type of transfer device many years ago, it wasn't until I watched the video below that I realized how eas
• Insights Into Wound Care: Billing, Intake, and Operational Logistics with Industry Experts In today's episode of Industry Matters, Mandi Joyner discusses all things wound care with the Director of Wound Care, Heather Trumm, and Ronda Buhrmester, Sr. Director of Payer Relations and Reimbursement.
• Building a Robust Wound Care Business: Get Started With Our Directory Whether you are just entering the wound care market or looking to grow your business, VGM's comprehensive wound care program provides members with information and materials to build a robust wound care business, including the wound care directory.