Cathy oversees clinical and professional services for Net Health. Cathy gained over 25 years of expertise in various acute care, long-term care, sub-acute care facilities, home-health agencies, and outpatient wound care department settings. She is the author of The Clinical Wound Manager™ Manual Series, Clinical Guide to Skin and Wound Care – Seventh Edition (also translated into Italian and Portuguese).
ThinkFlow combines workflow and CORE methodology to ensure a smarter approach for key wound care processes and tasks By: Cathy Thomas HessBSN, RN, CWCN, Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer, Net Health Wound Care Documenting the steps taken during wound care used to be viewed as – while not the most exciting task on your to…
How an advanced wound care process can improve clinical, operational, regulatory and economic outcomes So much has changed in wound care over the past 30 years. Technology has advanced wound care far beyond manual measurements, and yet there’s more we can and should do! From pressure injuries to non-healing wounds, hospitals today continue to struggle…
Wound Care Process: How to Be Effective Work smarter, not harder, by defining a wound care process that supports sustained results across clinical, operational, and financial metrics. What is your why? Why do you do what you do? Why do you take one approach over another; purchase a particular product or service; implement a specific…
What Wound Care Providers Ask Me the Most About Our Profession, Process, Technology and What’s Next for our Industry Net Health’s Cathy Thomas Hess is well-known in the wound care industry. She’s been in it for over 35 years; has written books and book chapters; is a sought-after speaker at conferences; is an expert…
By: Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWCN, Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer for Wounds, Net Health In 2010, I read a fascinating book entitled The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, MD. The Checklist Manifesto discussed how the volume and complexity of medicine had skyrocketed, coupled with the fact that technology and medical specialization have…
The key to any successful business is understanding your core process — or roadmap to success. We’ve all heard the term “work smarter, not harder,” and that is more relevant now than ever before. In a time when we’re connected seemingly 24/7, we can end up working ourselves in circles if we don’t get a…
As we usher in 2022 with optimism and hope, the timing of the new year acts as a reset button for our personal and professional lives. It’s a time to reflect on what we achieved, celebrate the wins, and benchmark new goals. To be good stewards in our business, the reflection is cast when we…
We’ve learned quite a bit about wound care over the past decades. Clinicians know more, manufacturers are doing more, and the entire industry is working together to advance skin and wound caring for dressings, drugs, and devices. While it’s been exciting and inspiring to see this evolution, wound care can still be challenging, and it…
Managing the work required for your role can be a daunting task. You must observe all of the rules and regulations for work performed and maintain an accurate picture of your clinical documentation to meet the proper reimbursement requirements within your place of service. The key to accurate clinical documentation is smart workflow design. Although…
Managing the work required for your role can be a daunting task. You must observe all of the rules and regulations for work performed and maintain an accurate picture of your clinical documentation to meet the proper reimbursement requirements within your place of service. The key to accurate clinical documentation is smart workflow design. Although…