Wound care during COVID-19, GBMC taking extra precautions

Wound care during COVID-19, GBMC taking extra precautions

WITH LON━ TERM INJURIES ORWOUNDS THAT NEED*CONTINUALCAR━ OFTEN IN A HOSPITALSETTING..

HOSPITALS IN OURAREA, INCLUDING GBMC, HAVEMADE ALL KINDS OF CHANGES TOMAKE SURE THAT PATIENTS ARESAFE, AND ABLE TO GET THE CARETHEY NEED..

DOCTOR JENNIFERHELLER IS THE MEDICAL DIRECTOROF THE WOUND CENTER AT GBMC..THIS MORNING, SHE JOINED OUROWN CHRISTIAN SCHAFFER ONFACEBOOK LIVE TO TALK ABOUTHELPING PATIENTS WITH WOUNDSWHO HAVE TROUBLE HEALING━EVEN DURING A PANDEMIC..jennife━"as a wound carecenter we are very strictabout making sure that we allhave the the proper ppe inplace.

And we also━ uniquelyas the pandemic started━ wechanged how our staffingresulted with the care of ourpatients.

So, prior to thepandemic, many nurses and aprovider would see onepatient.

And so in order todecrease the many peoplecoming in and out of onepatient room we limited it tojust one consistent nurse andone provider" WE HAVE MOREINFORMATION ABOUT GBMC'S WOUNDCENTER ON WMA━2 NEW━DO━COM.

IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE THATFULL INTERVIEW IT'S UP RIGHTNOW ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE