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November 20, 2009
Dear Subscriber,
Stay on the cutting edge of new product and industry news, prevention and treatment strategies, and regulation updates to help you meet your wound care challenges with Wound Care Insider. You're receiving this issue of Wound Care Insider, because you've subscribed to Advances in Skin & Wound Care's eNews, because you're a member of the American Professional Wound Care Association or the National Alliance of Wound Care, or because you've indicated in your NursingCenter.com registration profile that you're a wound care specialist. Like to receive the print version of Advances in Skin & Wound Care? Go here to learn more about subscribing to the journal. 
• CMS Retains Single NPWT Code • Gaymar Unveils New Therapeutic Mattress • NUCRYST Agrees to Sell Acticoat Business • Free H1N1 Flu Patient Handouts • Organogenesis Executives Named 2009 Award Winners • Wound Care Review Course Scheduled • APWCA Plans National Clinical Conference • National Alliance of Wound Care Expands Web Resources CMS Retains Single NPWT Code The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have determined that there is insufficient data at this time to demonstrate significant functional distinction or significant therapeutic distinction between negative pressure wound therapy products, or any such product component, to justify a separate Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code(s). More Gaymar Unveils New Therapeutic Mattress Gaymar has introduction of the Plexus TruTurn Therapeutic Mattress, a deep-cell, low air loss mattress designed to supply effective lateral rotation therapy for patients. More NUCRYST Agrees to Sell Acticoat Business NUCRYST Pharmaceuticals Corp announced a definitive agreement with subsidiaries of Smith & Nephew plc for the sale to Smith & Nephew of substantially all of Nucryst's operations and assets, including all rights to its proprietary nanocrystalline silver technology. More Free H1N1 Flu Patient Handouts In response to the growing concern about the H1N1 flu epidemic, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, in conjunction with Lippincott's http://www.NursingCenter.com, has developed a free educational handout for health professionals to use to help explain the H1N1 virus to patients. More Organogenesis Executives Named 2009 Award Winners Organogenesis, Inc, a leading regenerative medicine company, announced that Geoff MacKay, Chief Executive Officer, and Gary Gillheeney, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, received the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award in the biotechnology category in New England. More Wound Care Review Course Scheduled The American Professional Wound Care Association will offer "The Essentials--A Comprehensive Review Course on Wound Care Management and Intervention" on January 16-17, 2010, in Los Angeles, California. More APWCA Plans National Clinical Conference APWCA2010, Wound Care and the Related Sciences, highlighted by more than 40 world-renowned experts from all wound-care disciplines, will be held April 8-11, 2010, at the Sheraton, Philadelphia City Center, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. http://www.apwca.org/apwca2010. For further information on these programs and other APWCA activities, visit http://www.apwca.org. National Alliance of Wound Care Expands Web Resources The National Alliance of Wound Care has launched a wound care specialty on-line Job Resource Center in conjunction with its newly redesigned Web site: http://www.nawccb.org. More
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