Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI)

Wound Care Education Institute (WCEI) was created to fill a need for wound care education that was not being met.

WCEI founding partners Nancy Morgan and Donna Sardina, both RNs with years of practice, identified many improperly treated wounds in their nursing careers.  They discovered that there was a great need for wound care specialization, but a significant shortage of qualified wound care professionals.  They also noticed a lack of available and accessible wound care education programs.

With their shared passion for healing, Nancy and Donna started a hands-on wound care consulting company.  Finding they couldn’t be everywhere at once, and there was a limit to how many people the two of them could help, they decided that a better approach would be to provide wound care education in order to train as many health care professionals as possible.  That’s how the Wound Care Education Institute – WCEI – was born.

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How safe is your hospital? - chicagotribune.com

Just before it was disclosed that a medical error at the University of Chicago led to the death of James Tyree, a well-known financier and philanthropist being treated for cancer, I was putting together a presentation examining the quality of care at some of the area's best-known hospitals.

Using publicly available data, I told a meeting of local health care executives that there were warning flags at several institutions, including the U. of C. Tyree, ironically, would have known about any actual problems in far greater detail. He served on the board of the hospital where he died from an air embolism in a dialysis catheter, and hospital officials said in an interview that they regularly report safety data to board members.

There's an important distinction between great doctoring and great safety. The U. of C. has a reputation for outstanding cancer care. That's likely the reason that Tyree, suffering from stomach cancer and pneumonia, had a relatively good prognosis when he entered the hospital and why his death so shocked his family and friends. But as a wise physician once warned, "Every hospital should have a plaque at its entrance that reads, 'There are some patients whom we cannot help; there are none whom we cannot harm.'"

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Hospitals Could Save Millions By Eliminating Five Hospital-Acquired Conditions

An average 200-bed hospital could save approximately $2 million annually if it eliminates common but high-cost hospital-acquired conditions among inpatients, according to the Healthcare Management Council, Inc. (HMC), a Needham, MA-based company focusing on hospital and healthcare performance improvement.

The information was compiled using federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) indicators and recent proprietary cost-benchmarking information, according to Shelley Burns, HMC's director of knowledge management. HMC has reviewed the performance of hundreds of facilities ranging in size from 75 beds to more than 800 beds.

"The cost of quality is what we call it, but bringing that number [together] for our folks to see lets us align the financial side of the house and the clinical side of the house so they can work together [on this issue]," Burns says

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Ask A Nurse, Woundcare, Decubitus Ulcers

Woundcare, Decubitus Ulcers

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Ask-A-Nurse, Amerigel Wound Care Products:"Welcome to Amerigel's Ask-A-Nurse. Amerx Health Care Corporation is dedicated to producing quality products and providing support to our customers, both professional and consumer alike. We understand the frustration associated with managing wounds and the difficulty in finding a product that works well. Managing a wound is not a simple task and occasionally a customer has questions regarding our products, application techniques, appropriate dressings, etc. Clearly, any problem wound should be seen and assessed by a qualified practitioner so that a Management plan can be established. The information that we provide through Ask-A-Nurse should not be construed as the sole source of medical advice, but as a suggestion, as it is impossible to properly assess an individual's condition over the phone or in writing."
Amerx Health Care Corporation
1150 Cleveland Street, Suite 410 Clearwater, FL 33755
Phone 888/263-7942 Fax 727/447-5617
Email: sales@amerxhc.com http://www.amerigel.com/asktheamerigelnurse1.asp

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