The KCI Wound Care Program is a comprehensive, facility-wide program for overall wound care management. The program aligns the goals of individual departments within your facility, allowing each department to be more effective in managing ulcer-related issues.The KCI Wound Care Program aligns the goals of individual departments within a facility, allowing each department to be more effective in managing pressure ulcer-related issues.
KCI’s Wound Care Program helps to minimize the incidence of pressure ulcers and control wound care costs by:
- Benchmarking a facility’s current Prevalence & Incidence (P&I) rate against a national database
- Identifying opportunities to reduce supply-chain cost
- Identifying areas for increased staff training
- Facilitating standardization of products and clinical protocols
- Driving cost-effective product utilization
- Improving identification and documentation of community-acquired pressure ulcers
- Monitoring and documenting your progress along the way
The Four Easy Steps of the KCI Wound Care Program
The KCI Wound Care Program helps you systematically study your facility’s environment, identify areas for improvement and provide the information to effectively make positive changes. The four-step process includes:
Step 1: Assessment
- Baseline survey of pressure ulcers
- Product utilization review
Step 2: Planning
- Develop and/or modify prevention and treatment protocols
- Identify educational needs
- Establish a specific goal of reducing nosocomial pressure ulcers based on survey results and protocol review
Step 3: Implementation
- Wound-care education
- In-service training on all products and therapies
- Ongoing utilization and cost tracking
Step 4 : Reassessment
- Follow-up survey of pressure ulcers (P&I)
- Review plan based on survey findings
Finally, A Way For Everyone To Get Some Relief.
With the KCI Wound Care Program, patients, caregivers and healthcare facilities all benefit. The quality of care is raised, outcomes improve, risk is lowered and costs are contained. To learn more about the KCI Wound Care Program, call KCI at 1-800-275-4524.
Note: KCI’s Wound Care Program is not intended as a guarantee or warranty of cost savings, patient outcomes or product performance. It is intended to provide an additional tool in your facility’s overall quality improvement, cost reduction, clinical outcomes and risk reduction initiatives. Results herein may not be typical. Individual results will vary.
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2005 KCI Acute Care National Prevalence and Incidence Study Results1
Assessment Period: March 2005
1 - Whittington, K. and R. Briones. National Prevalence and Incidence Study: 6-year Sequential Acute Care Data. Advances in Skin & Wound Care, 2004; 19(8), 490-94.
