Guest Column: Louisiana’s most vulnerable wound patients are being left behind

During a recent visit to Touro’s Comprehensive Wound Healing Center in New Orleans, I joined a professional services team for their weekly patient rounds, reviewing patients with persistent, hard-to-heal wounds that would benefit from a second clinical perspective.

But this call was different.

The field team, licensed nurse practitioners serving nursing facilities and homebound patients who cannot reach a clinic, described how their phones had not stopped ringing…

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