Wound Care

At Warsaw Meadows, we are always striving to improve our services and working to be the best in the area for nursing care. One piece of the care required in skilled nursing facilities is wound care. We recognize that many people are admitted to facilities with surgical wounds and pressure ulcers that must be healed before they can return home. Warsaw Meadows is excited to have been selected by Health Care Excel to join the Indiana Pressure Ulcer Initiative and participate in a program designed to focus on quality improvement and promote preventative health care services.

Since becoming a part of the program, many changes have been implemented in the facility:

• We have a complete program set up to identify, track and treat pressure wounds. Including such items as the Braden Scale, PUSH tool, individualized turning and repositioning schedules, toileting programs, and tracking tools.
• We have begun an auditing system of the preventative measures that have been put in to place for all of our residents at risk for skin breakdown.
• One person has been designated to measure and care for the wounds on a weekly basis as well as educate staff on the many options available for wound prevention and treatment.
• The wound care team has attended seminars on wound care options and expected outcomes.
• Families are contacted weekly with updates on the status of wounds and made aware of the preventive measures put in place.

"All of the changes that we implemented are working well. We have increased early identification of potential pressure ulcers and healed many of the wounds that our residents were admitted with. Just having the above programs in place has been a measure of our building's success. The results of our audit tools show that staff has been putting preventative measures in place initially and with increased risk. They ask questions and want to do wound rounds with the nurse to see the measurements show healing. Participating in the Indiana Pressure Ulcer Initiative has improved the quality of care that our building gives." - Sarah Clay, Director of Nursing

Members of Warsaw Meadows team for the Pressure Ulcer Initiative
From left: Michelle VanRaalte, LPN; Jody Blue QMA; Crystal Knipp, COTA, Rehab Director; Dot Adkins, CDM, Dietary Manager; Linda Kurut SSD, Social Services; Sarah Clay, RN, Director of Nursing; and in front Barbara Stobbe, HFA, Administrator.