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When considering an outpatient Wound Center at your hospital, some critical issues to consider are:

  • How much revenue will the wound center generate?
  • How much cost will I incur?
  • What is my liability exposure?
  • How much will managing a wound center distract from mission critical endeavors?

WALKS℠ administers all aspects of the wound center, allowing our partner hospitals to focus on what they feel is most important to their facility. WALKS℠ Wound Centers alleviates the wound center management burden by providing:

  • Expert wound clinic management
  • Physician services
  • Physician recruitment
  • Billing expertise and assistance
  • A multi-disciplinary methodology
  • Comprehensive data management
  • Marketing plan (monthly progress letters, on-site referring physician/PCP office visits, print advertisement, community education)
  • Clinic forms (electronic and hard copy)
  • Clinic protocols
  • Assistance with all aspects of clinic set up
  • Physician/Staff Training
  • Participation in all Medicare/Medicaid audits

WALKS℠ Wound Centers can help your hospital:

 

  • Reduce out migration by providing a critical specialty service to patients in your local area
  • Increase outpatient revenue

 

 

  • Increase ancillary revenue (diagnostics, lab services, vascular surgery, general surgery, orthopedics)
  • Reduce LOS in key patient populations

The hospital investment includes:

 

  • Clinic Space, either on campus or off campus
  • Clinic supplies and equipment

 

 

  • Ancillary clinic staff (Medical assistants, scheduling staff)
  • Monthly management fee

For more information call Frank W Zappa, DPM at 312-243-3769 or Jason Zappa at 720-413-0339.

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