Message to Hospitalist: Stage III/IV Bedsores, Reconstructive Surgery ‘Should be Performed’
"Patients with hospital-acquired decubitus ulcers cannot be discharged to facilities that lack the capability to perform reconstructive surgery for cure, as this is an unsafe discharge. Hospitalists who authorize such discharges are exposed," states Greg Vigna, MD, JD, Board Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national bedsore attorney, states, “For decades, physicians [...]