Keep each team’s role clear.
Gateway helps coordinate a wound-care referral and the information needed for clinical review. Home-health services remain with the agency; treatment decisions and orders remain with the responsible clinician.
Share the information that supports follow-up.
- The ordering clinician, agency contact and relevant specialists.
- Current wound orders and recent visit information through the agreed channel.
- Supply responsibilities and unresolved order questions.
- Appointments, access needs and patient or caregiver contacts.
Resolve practical gaps in the plan.
Gateway helps connect records, visit arrangements, supplies and transportation needs with the responsible teams. Changes in the wound or medical condition go to the treating clinician through the established escalation process.
See the home-health wound-care coordination guide and care-transition information.