We provide wound care for vulnerable population

Leading Excellence Wound Care

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We provide an integrated wound care service

Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team and community healthcare settings to achieve wound healing and prevent negative health outcomes such as hospitalization, limb amputation and death due to wound complication.

Our qualified and skilled team of wound care nurses work with a multidisciplinary team of specialists (e.g., social worked, dietician, diabetes educators) to coordinate services required to advance wound healing to vulnerable population in Northwestern Ontario. We are skilled to select the appropriate type of dressings and technologies to manage the different types of wounds:

Our first encounter with a patient includes a comprehensive assessment to identify wound causes, risk factors, and potential to heal. Next, we identify factors preventing wound healing and integrate other healthcare professionals and services to address them and achieve healing in a faster manner. wWe understand the important role of patients, families, and caregivers on their everyday care and strive to engage them in the development of a care plan that best meets their needs and preferences.

Follow-up consultations ensure integration of multiple specialties working together to address factors preventing healing and provide continuity of care until wounds have healed.

Referrals to specialists include:

Social worker

Foot care nurses

Diabetes educator

Chiropodist

Vascular surgeon

Dermatologists

among others

We also work with the North West Home and community Care to coordinate care for clients with mobility issues who need to be seen at home. We provide guidance to home care about our wound care recommendations and progresses achieved.

Slow or hard-to-heal wounds have a high risk for infection, hospitalization and death. We are here to help. Don’t delay seeking help!

Timely care eliminates travel time and reduces costs.

Our Virtual Consultation allows timely access to wound care specialists and eliminates traveling time as it quickly gets patients and their families on the Care Pathway they need.

Our collaboration with patients, families and caregivers may lead to:

Fast access to wound care from the comfort of their home.
Reduced unnecessary in-person appointments with associated burdens of travel, missed work, and childcare.
Reduced wait times to access a wound care specialist.
Appropriate time for appointment to allow consultation to focus on patients’ needs and preferences.
Easier access to your wound care specialist .
Convenient way of managing chronic wounds that need ongoing care to increase healing and prevent complications.

Expanded networking, collaboration, and clinical capabilities. Better care coordination. Better satisfaction. Peace of mind.

Our collaboration with health care providers has the following benefits:

Develop collaboration with wound care specialists to meet patients’ needs and achieve wound healing.
Help clients more quickly move to the right care pathway to heal their wounds properly and avoid complications (e.g., infection, hospitalization, and limb amputation).
Allow healthcare providers to dedicate more time to focus on the needs of their clients beyond wound care.
Receive expert advice from wound care specialists to better direct their clients’ care plan.
Validate the need to refer clients to specialized wound care services for a variety of chronic wounds that require ongoing follow-up and care for faster healing.
Work in collaboration with wound care experts to answer treatment questions and address wound issues until wound closure.
Guide specialized workup recommendations for specific conditions.
Ensure patients receive appropriate wound care and treatment by experts in wound management.

Expanded care capacity. Reduced costs. Improved patient experience, satisfaction, and quality of life.

Our collaboration with healthcare organization has the following benefits:

Increased on-demand access to wound care specialists within the primary care setting.
Reduced cost of wound care by decreasing healing time and optimizing utilization of resources.
Building capacity within generalist nurses by collaborating with our certified wound care team to receive expert advice and recommendations to deliver on site care to your clients.
Providing rapid and ongoing access to wound care specialists for clients/residents with chronic wounds from the comfort of their home.
Reducing travel to appointment for clients in need of face-to-face specialty wound care
Improving clients’ satisfaction by reducing unnecessary appointment burden and out-of-pocket travel costs
Boosting wound healing ratings and quality of life to clients
Reducing emergency room admissions and readmissions due to wound complications.
Raising clients and family satisfaction by providing onsite specialized wound care in collaboration with our team.
Increasing knowledge of wounds and wound care for clients and care partners.

We provide wound care for vulnerable population (e.g., Indigenous, homelessness, older people). For those in remote and rural areas we offer a virtual Wound Care through Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) that connects patients, families, and primary care providers to on-call wound care specialists and achieve wound outcomes in a faster manner. Our services help vulnerable population to:

Get quick access to wound care specialists
Access other allied healthcare specialists
Acquire the right wound care treatment to the right wound type
Achieve wound healing in a fast manner
Prevent limb amputation
Understand their unique role in wound self-management
Engage in their own healthcare and feel in control
Feel welcome to ask questions and clarify concerns
Improve quality of life