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Minneapolis May 2007. Amputation Prevented at Benedictine Health Center of Minneapolis
Staff at Benedictine Health Center in Minneapolis were amazed when a wound that “hadn’t moved in seven months” began healing. Over the course of two months, the wound that had not changed since the previous July began healing after we started using Advanced Healing Institute’s Program. “At first, we didn’t’ think it could work, but it did.” Said a floor manager. His Doctor had recommended amputating the leg.
Minneapolis, July 2007. AHI Launches Wound Data Reporting System
Advanced Healing Institute announces the first release of its Wound Data Reporting System. Targeted for use by health care professionals in private practice, hospitals, long term care and home care, this HIPAA compliant, easy-to-use, web-based portal allows practitioners easy access to the most up-to-date information about their patient’s wound.
Minneapolis, April 2008. AHI Formulary Committee Develops Wound Guidelines
Following its plan to tie specific measurable outcomes to wound assessments, patient treatments, and wound care protocols, Advanced Healing Institute announces its first Guideline for treatment of Pressure Ulcers. Developed by AHI’s Formulary Committee which consists of M.D.s and R.N.s established at numerous prominent regional centers, the Guideline leverages best practices from national sources from organizations such as National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and Agency for Health Care Quality Research while allowing for the inclusion of evidence-based wound care practice to provide framework for measurement and Continuous Quality Improvement in wound care and wound healing.
Morris, December 2008. Morris MN Man Home by Christmas
Officials at a Morris, MN long term care facility announced today that a resident, “only in the facility as a result of his wound,” was discharged to home today after the wound healed. The resident who had been admitted to the facility in May and underwent all the standard care including skin grafts and multiple surgeries for his wound – only to see it increase in size between May and September – began healing in the first week after the TRUHEAL Program was ordered by his physician and facility staff.
Viroqua, September 2009. WI LTC Has First Ever 100% Survey After Implementing TruHeal Wound Program
Only nine months after implementing Advanced Healing Institute’s TRUHEAL Wound Program, a Viroqua, WI Long Term Care Facility reported their first-ever deficiency-free state survey. The facility administrator said, “we healed a stage IV pressure ulcer in four months and the surveyor did not believe it was healed. So we used AHI’s Wound Data Reporting System to call up the wound records for the past nine months and printed a report showing how that wound had healed.”
Minneapolis, October 2009. AHI Formulary Committee Streamlines Diabetic Wound Classification
Acknowledging that there are currently multiple classification systems in the marketplace and in the scientific literature for describing Diabetic Foot Ulcers, the Formulary Committee at Advanced Healing Institute has released a new descriptive classification system that adopts specific criteria associated with Diabetic Wounds to a group of classes similar to pressure ulcer stages. Additional information can be found here at www.advancedhealinginstitute.com/types-of-wounds
Minneapolis, November 2010. Fairview / PreferredOne Patient: “AHI TRUHEAL Wound Program Saved My Life”
A longtime member of PreferredOne insurance population, being treated in the Fairview Health System credits their use of Advanced Healing Institute’s TRUHEAL Wound Program with saving her life. The patient, a person with neck-down paralysis, had developed 2 stage IV pressure ulcers with significant tunneling and eschar. “Every week, the wound vac seemed to make the wound bigger and then the doctors would debride it again.” She said. After I started using AHI’s TRUHEAL Wound Program, I was able to discontinue the wound vac and began to make healing progress. “I truly believe that if I hadn’t found this program, these wounds would have killed me. Now I have my life back. I’m able to work and almost eliminate the pain medication as well.”
St Paul, May 2011. TRUHEAL Wound Program Heals Diabetic Foot Ulcer. Amputation Prevented
Doctors had already taken this elderly diabetic patient’s left leg and the big toe on her right foot when the wound reopened. After hospitalization for infection of the wound and visits to multiple specialists, they recommended a below the knee amputation for her right leg as well. However, before resorting to that procedure, case managers at her home health agency recommended trying the TRUHEAL Wound Program. Practitioners immediately noticed improvement in the wound and peri-wound. Amputation was delayed and the wound healed successfully.
Minneapolis, June 2011. AHI Signs Contract with Fairview Partners
AHI is pleased to announce that it has completed a contract with Fairview Partners, a subsidiary of Fairview Health Systems. AHI will implement its TRUHEAL Wound Program for all members of Fairview Partners (a population of over 3000). These members will receive improved care and healing of all wounds at a much lower cost than previously experienced.
Minneapolis, September 2011. AHI / Fairview Analysis Shows Single Wound Savings of $120,000
After 30 months of unsuccessfully treating a stage II pressure ulcer on the patient’s coccyx, the patient’s caregivers believed that it would never heal. However as Fairview Partners patients began to be treated using the recently implemented TRUHEAL Wound program signs of improved healing started to show. After only eight weeks treatment using the TRUHEAL Wound Program, the wound had closed. Subsequent analysis of treatment costs before and after program implementation indicate that up to $120,000 could have been saved for this one individual if the TRUHEAL Wound Program were more widely adopted.
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