Skin Health

We think of the skin as protection from the outside world, and that function is critical. But its other function is also important – connecting us to our world. And no part of the human body conveys its condition to the outside world as quickly and clearly as the skin.

Skin: The Telltale Organ

As the largest and most visible organ, the skin is the first place your caregivers may see evidence of health breakdowns in patients/residents. Are caregivers missing the full story the skin tells? How do you know if your protocols are failing? Ask yourself:

Does your staff have a deep understanding of the skin’s vulnerabilities?
Do they closely monitor individuals to detect warning signals of skin breakdown?
Do they go beyond the protocols to make sure skin health status is assessed, reevaluated and communicated as patients move through the continuum of care?

The real indication of successful performance is the skin itself.

A Journey Into Geriatric Skin: Video

Watch our video of Nurse Skinthority to preview the kind of educational courses you can get from the Skintegrity program. Our video shows what changes as skin ages and how staff can help patients become an advocate for their skin health.

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Skintegrity: A New Standard in Skin Health

If you already have skin health protocols in place, why the need for a multi-faceted skin program? Because many organizations that institute protocols still find their skin outcomes don’t measure up. It’s often necessary to do a deeper dive to assess whether protocols are being followed and if gaps remain that protocols don’t address.

Skintegrity is an easy-to-adopt, evidence-based skin solution that pinpoints where those gaps occur across the continuum of care. It goes beyond simply following protocols. It can help improve your skin results through a proven education program, clinically-tested products and useful outcomes management tools.

Discover how Skintegrity can help your organization.

Skin Health Webinar Series

Medline, a leading medical supply and clinical solution company for more than 100 years, is committed to setting a new standard for skin health. One big way Medline has demonstrated this commitment is through a new series of free, on-demand webinars.

Skin health is often overlooked as part of the typical primary patient care experience. As a result, chronic wounds affect 6.5 million Americans and more than $25 billion is spent annually on the treatment of skin injuries.⁴

To enable caregivers to improve this situation, our webinar series brings together a team of experts to provide you the latest research, unprecedented education and clinically proven solutions on various skin care topics.

Our recorded skin health webinars are free and available to watch whenever you want.

Facts About Skin: Cost, Quality, Outcomes

Take the Skin Health Pledge today

Join the movement to help make proper skin care a critical element for a happy, healthy population. Take the Skin Health Pledge today.

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Footnotes:

1. Russo CA, Elixhauser A. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Apr, 2006. [Accessed December 19, 2006]. Hospitalizations related to pressure sores, 2003. http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb3.pdf.

2 NursingCenter.com. FAQs: Preventing and Treating Skin Tears. © 2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Volume 20(6), June 2007, pp 315-321. Available at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=727851. Accessed January 22, 2015.

3. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (July 2011). AHRQ toolkit helps to prevent hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: Research Activities. (AHRQ Publication No. 371). Retrieved from: http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ newsletters/research-activities/jul11/0711RA46.html

4. Sen C, Gordillo G, Roy S, Kirsner R, Lambert L, Hunt T, Gottrup F, Gurtner G, Longaker M. Human Skin Wounds: A Major and Snowballing Threat to Public Health and the Economy. Wound Repair and Regeneration. 2009;17(6):763-771.

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