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title: Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care - How to Keep Your Healthcare Facility Out of Court - Swift
description: Elements of wound documentation, common mistakes that lead to pressure injury litigation, calculating exposure to legal and financial risks and more.
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# Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care – How to Keep Your Healthcare Facility Out of Court

There are more than 17,000 lawsuits related to pressure injuries annually in the United States. This number is second only to wrongful death lawsuits.

 

## About this Webinar

To prove unavoidability, proper documentation of best care needs to be in place, as well as documentation that all proper prevention and treatment measures were implemented.

Our guest on this webcast is Heidi Cross, a certified wound specialist who has her own independent practice as an expert witness for plaintiff and defense attorneys in New York

 

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> Using the Swift platform we are engaging, empowering and motivating our clients at every stage of their health journey and are happy to show clients their wound healing progress using graphs and photographs. The accuracy in wound measurement and the visual wound progress promotes heightened clinical decision making, early identification of any concerns and a rapid response – ensuring we are delivering the best care.

- ***Nancy Lefebre, Chief Clinical Executive***SE Health

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