What’s New
Prevent pressure injuries: Nurses reveal what they need to help keep people safe
Pressure injury prevention goals shifted due to COVID-19. Discover what 86% of nurses now say they should be doing more of to protect at-risk skin.
Wound care centers: 3 ways to integrate your services across the patient journey
Learn 3 ways to integrate wound care clinics into the greater healthcare continuum, building connections that make it easier to coordinate and standardize care.
Patient-centered care: Incorporating strategies to help heal chronic wounds
At the heart of patient-centered care is empathy for each individual. Discover how one clinician uses this concept to help heal a diabetic foot ulcer.
Venous leg ulcers: How can you help patients’ wounds from coming back?
Venous leg ulcers are challenging to heal and often recur. Why does this happen? Explore the risk factors and how to help keep patients healed.
Venous leg ulcers go beyond the wound: Understand the impacts on quality of life
Venous stasis can lead to sleeplessness, loneliness, embarrassment and more. Discover how to help your patients cope with challenges of this lifelong disease.
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EXPERT-LED WEBINAR
Understanding the vicious cycle of pressure injuries
Explore causes and evidence-based prevention.
Best Practices
Five-layer foam dressing: How this innovative technology helps you care for wounds
Learn how a layered wound care dressing helps fight friction and shear for patients at risk for skin breakdown.
How do you help prevent pressure injuries at the heels?
Preventing pressure injuries/ulcers is an important aspect of both clinical care and the healthcare system at large.
Fight MASD with the right system of products
Healthy skin needs moisture, but too much can compromise skin integrity and cause harm. Moisture damage often occurs when patients are incontinent, but moisture can also be a problem for any age group and on many different areas of the body.
Prevention & Treatment
Does one good turn deserve another? A look at the practice of repositioning
Repositioning patients to prevent and treat pressure injuries has been a long-standing tradition. This session will explore the physiological principles behind repositioning in addition to myths commonly encountered in its practice. Strategies to best incorporate evidence-based practice will be shared.
Intertrigo: Empower staff to manage moisture and reduce skin breakdown
Knowing how to use a product is an essential part of your job. But looking beyond that—to why it works—empowers you and your staff to choose the right strategy every time.
Peristomal skin: Dr. Joyce Pittman explores proper management strategies
Dr. Joyce Pittman is Associate Professor at University of South Alabama with a research focus on pressure injuries, ostomy related complications and evidence-based practice.
Operational Performance
Riverside Healthcare: A case study on systemness
Systemness began with standardizing wound care.
Healthcare economics: Costs of preventing versus treating skin breakdown
Clinicians work hard to protect patients from skin damage that may contribute to pressure injuries. But preventable pressure injuries/ulcers still occur.
Health economics: The right wound care products help drive cost savings
How choosing the right wound care products can help improve patient outcomes and save money
Creating a supply formulary that works
8 steps to take to standardize and cut costs.
News room
- January 5, 2022Rural long-term care facilities bring in outside educators to boost staff skills
Medline spoke with Guardian Healthcare to learn more about what they are doing to support workforce engagement through ongoing skin and wound care guideline education. The organization has created in-… - November 30, 2021Medline and CURAD® partner with illustrator and artist advocate Kendra Dandy
CURAD®, a Medline brand and leading provider of world-class consumer medical products, has joined forces with renowned artist and illustrator Kendra Dandy to feature her unique designs on CURAD’s clas… - October 25, 2021Michigan hospital prioritizes inclusive skin and hair care
When Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital leadership was looking for skin and hair care products to meet the unique and diverse needs of their acute care patients, they turned to Medline for help…. - September 20, 2021Prioritizing workforce engagement: PruittHealth invests in skin health program to empower staff
This article is part of a series focusing on workforce engagement in post-acute care. The Medline Newsroom will feature interviews with healthcare leaders to discuss their approach to investing in lon… - September 16, 2021Medline’s FitRight Assessment Tool helps providers optimize incontinence product selection, saving time and money
One of the most time-consuming activities in post-acute settings is correctly outfitting patients who are living with incontinence. Not only is there a possibility for injuries, but using the right pr…
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