Featured Article Winning Hospital Value Analysis Strategies for Advanced Wound Care An Interview with Dr. Rhonda Sullivan, DNP, PhD, MSN, MBA, CWON, LNCC, NE-BC, CSPHA but also products that serve multiple functions. Interestingly, cost was really the last thing we looked at, mainly because the clinicians were looking at all the other components related to patient care. This team was unique because although the wound clinicians were the leads with advanced wound care, the overarching team was HCVAM: How did you get involved with multidisciplinary. advanced wound care in the healthcare value analysis world? This approach allowed us to have subject matter experts, that could be broken out into smaller RS: My experience goes back 21 years. Since work groups that would represent their facility to getting into wound care, I always had the oppor- the larger group, for any product category we tunity to participate in the value analysis of the were looking at. Our system was 15 hospitals so product purchasing decisions. I was just lucky getting them all to have the same products, enough to work in a system where the wound care policies across the system, and evaluating these clinicians were always involved in the advanced with the highest level of evidence with the wound care decision-making process. purpose of best outcomes was the goal. Having 15 wound care nursing experts making the decisions I think those experiences always resonate with was a major accomplishment. We made decisions me the most, especially when I was the chair by consensus based on an evaluation of of our enterprise wound care and pressure injury everything that was relevant to that product prevention committee. What happened across decision. It really opened the door to wound care our system was that we were charged with being well-managed with aligned policies and converging practice and products. So, when we products at all the system’s facilities. moved to the advanced wound care category, the wound care nursing representatives from every HCVAM: Please tell us how advanced wound facility sat on that overarching value analysis care is improving outcomes for patients as well as committee. What was unique about that was that clinicians’ ability to have better options for it allowed us to really get that 360-degree review treatment. of our products and the needs of our patients across the entire system, as well as the relevant RS: I've been a nurse for 30 years. Twenty-one of evidence demonstrating outcomes. We looked for those years have been in wound care, so I have opportunities to have diversity in our products, been able to see this specialty evolve over the
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