The PAWSIC Podcast

Wound care, told honestly

Real stories and clinical insight from post-acute and home health wound care. Hosted by Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub. New episodes drop on the PAWSIC channel.

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Breaking down the silos

Episode 06

Breaking Down the Silos in Wound Care: Harris, Maguire, Ramdas and Bauer

A wound patient rarely stays in one setting, and too much gets lost at every handoff. Hosts Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub bring five care settings to one table: Annie Harris for home health, Jeanine Maguire for skilled nursing and long-term care, Melissa Ramdas for mobile wound care, Karen Bauer for the hospital outpatient clinic, and Jennifer speaking for acute care. Together they look at where transitions succeed or fail, how reimbursement and regulations differ by setting, why wound images should travel with the patient, and how technology can be built around the patient's path.

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Episode 05

When the Skin Begins to Fail: Krasner, Maguire and Coccaro Word

What happens when skin breakdown is not simply a pressure injury? Wound care experts Diane Krasner, Jeanine Maguire, and Beatriz Coccaro Word join hosts Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub to explore skin failure: why the right diagnosis matters, how skin failure can progress despite appropriate interventions, and why clinicians must look beyond the wound to the whole patient. They also cover documentation, conversations with patients and families, avoidable versus unavoidable pressure injuries, and the push for dedicated skin failure coding.

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Episode 04

The Education Crisis in Wound Care: Alicia Bobak

Alicia Bobak has spent her career leading wound care programs, educating clinicians, and helping healthcare organizations improve outcomes across the continuum of care. Hosts Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub sit down with Alicia to explore one of healthcare's biggest challenges: preparing clinicians with the knowledge and confidence to deliver strong wound care, and why becoming an expert does not end at graduation.

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Episode 03

Healing Is a Partnership: Joe Balusik

Joe Balusik has lived with a spinal cord injury since 1995, navigating decades of rehabilitation, chronic wound care, and the realities of healing from the patient's perspective. Hosts Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub sit down with Joe to explore his journey through paralysis, pressure injuries, and the partnership he built with his wound care team, and why listening to the patient perspective leads to better outcomes.

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Episode 02

Why CNAs Matter in Wound Care

Certified Nursing Assistants are often the first to notice a change in the skin and the daily front line of prevention. Hosts Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub talk with Isaac Zralii about why CNAs are central to wound care, and how supporting them strengthens outcomes across the team.

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Episode 01

32 Years Without a Diagnosis: Amy Rivera's Lymphedema

Amy Rivera waited 32 years before her lymphedema was named. In our launch episode she shares her decades-long path to a diagnosis with PAWSIC clinicians Jennifer Bierhup and Therese Laub, and what every home health and post-acute clinician can learn from a story that should not have taken that long.

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Clinicians on a mission to educate

Jennifer and Therese host Healing by Design because the wound care education most clinicians need is rarely the wound care education they get. Every episode is built around that gap.