Hackensack Meridian At Home: Advanced Virtual Wound Care
Bringing Expert Wound Management Directly to Your Living Room
At Hackensack Meridian At Home, we believe that the best place to heal is where you are most comfortable: at home. Our innovative Virtual Wound Care Program combines the compassionate, hands-on care of our visiting nurses with real-time, virtual access to certified wound care specialists.
How It Works
Our hybrid approach ensures you get the right care at exactly the right time:
- In-Home Nursing Visit: Our skilled home care nurse arrives at your home equipped with a secure, high-definition telehealth tablet or smartphone.
- Virtual Specialist Connection: At the bedside, the nurse connects via live video to a Certified Wound Care Specialist (CWOCN) or physician.
- Real-Time Assessment: The specialist guides the in-home nurse, reviews the wound using high-definition cameras, and assesses the healing progress.
- Instant Treatment Planning: The specialist and nurse collaborate to update your care plan instantly, prescribing new dressings, medications, or therapies on the spot.
- Continuous Monitoring: Healing is tracked digitally through secure photo documentation, ensuring any signs of infection or stalled healing are caught immediately.
Key Benefits of the Virtual Wound Care Program
- Expertise at Your Fingertips: Immediate access to specialized wound care experts who are normally only available in busy hospitals or specialized clinics.
- Reduced Hospitalizations: By catching complications early and applying advanced interventions quickly, we dramatically reduce the risk of ER visits and hospital readmissions.
- Elimination of Travel Fatigue: Patients with complex wounds often face mobility challenges. Our program eliminates painful and expensive transportation to outpatient wound clinics.
- Faster Healing Times: Real-time collaboration between the field nurse and the specialist means treatment plans are adjusted exactly when needed, accelerating the healing process.
- Empowered Patients & Families: Our virtual specialists can speak directly with patients and family caregivers over the video feed, providing education, answering questions, and offering peace of mind.
Wounds We Treat
Our virtual experts and home care teams are equipped to manage a wide variety of acute and chronic wounds, including:
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Pressure injuries (bedsores)
- Post-surgical incisions and delayed healing wounds
- Venous and arterial leg ulcers
- Traumatic wounds and skin tears
- Burns