Pressure ulcers (bedsores) are a serious condition that can cause severe pain, infection, even death. Prevention is easier and less costly than treatment -- a $11 billion cost in the U.S. alone -- both in terms of human suffering and financially.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation F-314 has raised the standards for pressure ulcer care in long-term care facilities. CMS has eliminated reimbursement of preventable pressure ulcers that develop in hospitals October 1, 2008. This means these facilities will now incur the full cost of these pressure ulcers and will be actively in search for a solution.

• Reducing pressure ulcers is the number one goal of the American Healthcare Association/Alliance.
  
• Pressure ulcer prevalence is a quality measure of Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing home care.
  
• Pressure ulcers are listed as a top sign of nursing home abuse and neglect on nursinghomepatientrights.com.
  

Enhanced, accountable F-314 compliance

ProcatiCare's CareMetric System can help your facility meet F-314 requirements, by proving proof that repositioning procedures are in fact taking place.