Can you get wound care at home if you cannot leave the house

I was called in by the Visiting Nurse service to treat a gentleman at his home because he was homebound and had no transportation had no family members and had no means to get around. I visited him in his home and in fact he was truly homebound.

The wound was smelly and bloody and well not something you would want to be around. But the principles of good wound care are the same whether it is in the hospital or at home.

I cleaned the wound and we did all the preliminaries which includes checking the patient's nutrition and circulation and medications the usual things that doctors do. Then we placed an amnion graft to cover the wound. He is now 18 days into the grafting process and his wound has decreased by one half.

I was particularly struck by something I did not know and that is that there is an ever growing population of people at least in my area in the Yonkers Westchester area that do not have the means to get out of their own homes. I was unaware of this and the Visiting Nurse company called me up and asked me to do this visit for this particular gentleman I talked to you about but they have a whole list of people waiting to get this treatment because they cannot get out of their home.

I am not sure how I am going to handle this going forward because the downside is that home visits are quite time consuming and I do not have the time to cover the number of cases that they presented me with. At any rate there is a big need and hopefully I can raise some awareness with some of my colleagues to help me with this venture.

Healthcare will march on and hopefully we will get good outcomes to get these people to heal so they can go back to being mobile and getting out of their homes.