Skin Check: Promoting daily skin inspection
 Bathing provides one of the best opportunities to monitor skin condition. Our Skin Check guide on every Comfort Bath product empowers staff to observe and communicate skin issues to the patient's RN. The convenient peel and-stick labels allow caregivers to indicate which part of the body needs to be checked for potential skin problems. This is increasingly important because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) will no longer reimburse facilities for pressure ulcers not present upon admission.1 Skin Check also helps facilities meet IHI's 5 Million Lives Campaign to inspect skin daily2 and helps meet The Joint Commision's National Patient Safety Goal of improving communication between different levels of caregivers.3
Proven Effective
Studies show Skin Check is effective. One study shows the use of Skin Check helped reduce the rate of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers by 67%.4
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Address CMS reimbursement mandates
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will no longer reimburse hospitals for certain conditions not present upon admission. This includes pressure ulcers.1
Comfort Bath with Skin Check helps promote skin cleansing, observation, recording, communication and rapid response by the nursing staff.
One study presented at IH's 2006 National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare showed the use of Skin Check reduced the rate of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers from 18.00%to 5.88%over a three-month period.4
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