By Katherine Piette End-stage renal disease (ESRD) poses significant challenges beyond the well-known burden of dialysis and organ...

Katie Rizzo, BSN, RN, CWOCN; Corstrata Wound Specialist October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Corstrata has the privilege of working...

As a former home health and hospice manager responsible for overseeing quality improvement, I witnessed the following scenario playing...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a division of the Health and Human Services Department recently published in the...

WOW! Where do I start?! I had the great fortune to attend the 2017 DFCon (Diabetic Foot Conference) last week in Houston, for the first...

Technology is a tool to enable or facilitate solving a problem or making a process more efficient. In telehealth technology - whether it...

First of all, what really is evidence-based practice (EBP), and why is it fundamental to care delivery? According to D.L. Sackett, a...

Typically, chronic wounds that don’t respond to initial treatment, despite appropriate care, require advanced wound-healing...

Corstrata’s Vice President of Clinical Quality, Jan Cuzzell, MSN, RN, CWS, had the privilege to talk with long-time friend and colleague,...

As 2016 draws to a close, we look towards the future of home wound care. Just this month, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Post acute providers - hospices, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and long term acute care hospitals are often reticent...

To honor Ostomy Awareness Day on October 1, we're discussing the specific challenges of ostomy care and the various risk factors that can...

In 1859, Florence Nightingale wrote, “If he [the patient] has a bedsore, it’s generally not the fault of the disease, but of the...

What A Comprehensive Foot Exam Assesses A diabetes foot ulcer prevention and management plan begins with proper wound management...

Why Does Minimizing Litigation Liability Matter? Pressure injuries (ulcers) are targeted for litigation more than other wound types...

As the most common lower extremity wound type (80% of cases), venous leg ulcers (VLU) are skin wounds typically located on the medial...