3.
WebCME: Providing Online Educational Courses in Hyperbaric Medicine
and Wound Care
WebCME offers the only online,
fully accredited, 40-hour introductory HBO course. Visit
www.WebCME.net or call Kelley Mewissen
at (414) 385-2384 for more information.
Next ACHM MD
Certification Exam Date Announced
The ACHM will administer the Hyperbaric
Certification Exam in conjunction with the Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin & Wound
Care, October 21 - 25, 2009, in San Antonio, TX.
The exam will take place on Sunday, October 25. Visit
our website for additional information or to download the application.
Post a Job Opportunity
on Our Website
ATTENTION HYPERBARIC FACILITIES, WOUND
CARE CENTERS & NATIONAL MANAGEMENT COMPANIES.
We understand that recruitment in the hyperbaric industry can
be difficult. So we've created a classified section on our website. Sign up for
our Corporate Membership for an annual fee of $500, and receive a 90 day
listing in the classified section of our website. Our website receives over
2,000 hits per month, so your listing will be seen by hyperbaric and wound care
practitioners throughout the country. We will also include your listing in at least
one email blast to over 2,300 contacts. For more information about our
corporate membership, click here.
*If you do not wish to sign up for membership at this time,
you may purchase a 30-day listing on our site for $250. This does not include a
listing in an email blast.
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Post Your Resume/CV on Our Website
Are you relocating? Or just
looking for a change? Members of the ACHM may post their resume/CV on our
website FREE for 90 days. For more
information about this service, please visit our website - https://www.achm.org/index.php/General/General/Jobs.html.
Or send your resume/CV to
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New Monthly Practice Update Now Available
Working Behind the Scenes to
Improve the Practice of Wound Care
Featuring Marcia Nusgart, R.Ph. -
Executive Director, Alliance
of Wound Care Stakeholders
We have
posted the next session of our new educational video series - the Monthly
Practice Update. Each month we will feature a different guest who will speak to
a specific issue facing hyperbaric practice. This series is broadcast on our website,
and is free for ACHM members. Click here to view the trailer from our
first segment.
NEW - THE CLINICAL CONNECTION
Vashe
Wound Therapy
Featuring
- David Zansitis, Puricore
A
unique group of specialists from Hyperbaric Medicine, Wound Care, Podiatry,
Plastic Surgery and Endovascular Medicine provide information on state-of-the-art
advances in Wound Care. These updates are sponsored by various companies with
the intent of providing hyperbaric and wound care specialists with updates on the
latest advanced modalities, technologies and treatments. This series will be broadcast on our website, and is free for ACHM members. Click here to view the first installment of The Clinical Connection.
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
Introducing
Dermagraft®
If a diabetic foot ulcer is not healing, decide to make
Dermagraft part of your standard of care.
Dermagraft® is a cryopreserved human
fibroblast-derived dermal substitute that is indicated for use in the treatment
of chronic full-thickness diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). It is composed of fibroblasts, extracellular
matrix, and a bioabsorbable scaffold, and stimulates wound healing by allowing
your patient's own epithelial cells to migrate and close the wound.*
While hyperbaric oxygen
therapy (HBOT) can be an effective treatment for DFUs, when used in conjunction
with advanced wound care treatments, such as Dermagraft, HBOT may be even more
successful at closing the wound in a shorter period of time. This is due to the
fact that the tissues around the ulcer are exposed to increased oxygen and
enhanced vascular healing, which further augments the efforts made by
Dermagraft in the wound bed.
Dermagraft should be used in
conjunction with standard wound care regimens and in patients who have adequate
blood supply to the involved foot. For more information about Dermagraft,
please visit: www.dermagraft.com
Reference:
* Hanft JR, Surprenant MS. Healing of chronic foot ulcers in
diabetic patients treated with a human fibroblast-derived dermis. J Foot
Ankle Surg. 2002;41(5):291-299.
Sechrist Industries Introduces
Ground-Check System to Verify NFPA Ground Requirements in Hyperbaric Chambers
As you may be aware, hospitals and clinics offering hyperbaric medicine
have for some time had to pull together ad-hoc solutions for required patient
and chamber ground checking. Now, Sechrist is introducing the industry's first complete ground-check solution to be
fully integrated with the hyperbaric chamber, enhancing safety for both
patients and practitioners (see release below). The new Ground-Check
System tests the ground integrity of the complete patient grounding pathway
(ground stud, chamber and patient) to meet NFPA 77, providing a higher level of
confidence and assurance in the facility's safety checks. Click here to read the
full press release.
Member
Question of the Month
Q:
A hospital is trying to open a new wound care/HBO
program. They are ready to go and have been informed that they failed to
submit a Certificate of Need (CON) and cannot open until they have it
approved.
A:
A Certificate of Need (CON) basically comes from the state and is a stop
gap designed to prevent oversaturation of any type of medical facility in any
given area. Depending on where this facility is located, it may be mandated for
the area.
1. A CON
program is a regulatory process that requires certain health care providers to
obtain state approval before offering certain new or expanded services. For
example, a certificate of need would be required if a hospital wishes to
establish a comprehensive medical rehabilitation program.
2. The CON
process is intended to help ensure that new services proposed by health care
providers are needed for quality patient care within a particular region or
community.
3. The
program prevents unnecessary duplication of services by selecting the best
proposal among competing applicants who wish to provide a particular health
service. CON in Florida
regulates hospice, skilled nursing, intermediate care for the developmentally
disabled, the development of new hospitals and certain hospital services. It
does not regulate outpatient services, home health services or the purchase of
major medical equipment.
When CON Notification or Review is
Required
Health providers requiring a
certificate of need for certain types of projects include:
Hospitals
Nursing Homes
Hospices
Intermediate Care Facilities for the
Developmentally Disabled
CON review covers not only new
facility construction but also initiation of specialized hospital services,
certain bed conversions, increases in the number of inpatient beds at hospitals
and nursing homes, transfers of CONs, and a variety of other projects.
Generally, nothing from the CON office
is required for:
The establishment of an Ambulatory Surgery
Center
The establishment of outpatient adult
diagnostic cardiac catheterization services
Renovations to existing health care facilities
that do not involve the addition of beds or services
If you have a
question you would like answered by the ACHM executive committee, please email Angela Kujath
at
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