PALTC23 Conference Recordings TH14 Leading a High Performing Wound Care Program

Leading a High Performing Wound Care Program

Four experienced geriatricians experts in wound care will address the components of a high performing PALTC wound care team. The physician and nurse practitioner speakers include the the director and graduates of a wound care fellowship program and leader of PALTC wound care services. Presenter will review QI measures and expected outcomes of a high performing wound care program, discuss the benefits and liabilities of contracted wound care services, and review the regulatory, billing, documentation, and compliance requirements in wound care management. The speakers will describe the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of key members of the wound care IDT. The session will also review the recently changed nomenclature of pressure injury and staging, describe advanced wound care techniques that may be offered by facility IDT members , discuss pain management during the wound care and dressing changes, and review offloading techniques to assist with wound healing.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Describe the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of key members of the wound care IDT.
  • Discuss the regulatory, billing, documentation, and compliance requirements of wound care management.
  • Contrast the benefits and liabilities of a contracted wound care services with an inhouse wound care management team.
  • List quality improvement measures and expected outcomes of a high performing wound care program.

Aimee Garcia, MD, CWS, FACCWS

Aimee Garcia, MD, CWS, FACCWS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Acting Chief of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Baylor College of Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Wound Care Clinic and Consult Service. Dr. Garcia is the Director of the VA-based Clinical Wound Care Fellowship since 2006. She is also a former Program Director of the Geriatrics Fellowship Program at Baylor College of Medicine from 2003-2015.

Christina Traber, GNP, MSN, BSN

Christina Traber, GNP, MSN, BSN is an academic nurse practitioner who provides education and clinical care in multiple teaching PALTC settings. She leads the wound care services in nursing home and assisted living facilities. Ms. Traber provides education on wound care to facility staff and learners and precepts nurse practitioner students.

Veena Wang, MD

Veena Wang, MD, is an Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University Division of Geriatric Medicine. She received her medical degree from The University of Toledo College of Medicine. Dr. Wang completed her family medicine residency, geriatric medicine fellowship and wound care fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine.

Julie Gammack, MD, CMD, FACP

Julie Gammack, MD, CMD, FACP, received her Medical Degree from the University of Minnesota followed by an internal medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She was on faculty for two years at Baylor College of Medicine in the Section of Geriatrics and then joined Saint Louis University Division of Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Gammack is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education. She is a former program director for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, Certified Medical Director, and is a medical director at a teaching nursing home. Her teaching and administrative interests are focused on long-term care and medical education.

Monica Stout, MD

Monica Stout, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin, followed by a family medicine residency at Medical College of Wisconsin-Fox Valley. She then completed a geriatric medicine fellowship at Duke University and a wound care fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Stout has been a nursing home medical director and she is a prior AMDA Futures Program awardee.

  • 1.25 CME
  • 1.25 CMD Clinical
  • 1.25 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.25 clinical hours toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.25 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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