John and Nancy Romano, plus our Connectionology® Team welcome you back for another great webinar!

Register today for “Unseen Wounds: Pressure v. Vascular – Assessments, Charting and Errors in Skilled Nursing Facilities, Long-Term Care Homes ” on Thursday, June 25, 2026 from 3:00pm-4:30pm EST – Eastern Standard Time featuring Patrick Stonich with OnPoint Legal Nurse Consulting and our wonderful moderator, Eric Hertz, Esq. with Eric J. Hertz, P.C.

“Unseen Wounds: Pressure v. Vascular” is a clinical and legal primer designed for plaintiff attorneys navigating skilled nursing facility (SNF) wound care cases. It establishes the scale of the problem — with 2.5 million annual pressure injury cases in the U.S. and up to 35% of SNF residents affected — before walking through the critical distinctions between pressure injuries and vascular wounds (arterial, venous, and diabetic foot ulcers), including their causes, locations, appearance, staging systems, and diagnostic requirements. The presentation then covers appropriate treatment protocols for each wound type, explains how MDS Section M documentation and the RAI process create the evidentiary record that drives care planning, reimbursement, and legal liability, and concludes with the legal ramifications of facility failures — from improper staging and missed vascular diagnoses to systemic breakdowns in staffing, training, and CMS protocol compliance.

What Attendees Will Learn

• How to distinguish pressure injuries from vascular wounds — including the clinical differences in cause, location, appearance, and staging that are commonly misidentified in SNF records
• The real scope of the problem — pressure injuries cost the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $26.8 billion annually and are largely preventable, making facility failures difficult to defend
• How to read diagnostic findings — including the Ankle-Brachial Index (ABI) scale and what values signal peripheral artery disease, impaired healing, or the need for urgent vascular intervention
• What proper treatment looks like — so attorneys can identify deviations from the standard of care, whether that’s failure to reposition, lack of compression therapy, or missing vascular consultation
• How MDS Section M works and why it matters legally — accurate completion of skin integrity, wound staging, and the turning-and-repositioning checkbox directly affects liability, reimbursement, and burden of proof
• How gaps in documentation become evidence of negligence — a checked box without a repositioning log, or an absent ABI test, can be as damaging as no care at all
• The three primary legal liability theories in SNF wound litigation — failure to stage and treat, delayed vascular diagnosis, and systemic facility failures in staffing and CMS protocol adherence
• How the nursing process (ADPIE) frames the standard of care — and how deviations at any step (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, or evaluation) can establish breach

Register for free and receive a confirmation with the log in instructions. No Defense firms are permitted.

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