Who We Are


Deb

Deborah Ritter

Co-founder

Sue

Sue Kennedy

Co-founder

 

Sue Kennedy and Debbie Ritter are Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurses with experience in the home care/hospice, acute care, rehab and LTAC settings. As clinicians who have functioned in various roles from direct patient care to corporate program management, they offer realistic solutions to your WOCN needs. Recognized leaders with excellent personnel and team building skills, Sue and Debbie utilize this ability to build positive relationships with people in both clinical and non-clinical settings. They possess extensive knowledge of the WOCN Society best practices relating to in-patient and home based wound management, utilizing this knowledge to develop strategies necessary to ensure the highest possible patient outcomes while maintaining clinical and regulatory compliance. They have served on WOCN/OASIS-C, C1 advisory committee to CMS, as content validation experts for WOCN Stoma Complications Document for clinician best practices and as members of WOCN Document Review Task Force for review of Best Practice Documents. As Clinical Integration Specialists, they shared responsibility for division wide specialty program development and implementation for the following:

  • Transitional Care Management across the continuum
  • Wound Management
  • Cardiac Management and Telemonitoring
  • Pulmonary Care
  • Diabetes Management
  • Behavioral Health
  • Incontinence Management
  • Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Implementation

 

Sue and Debbie have presented at the local, state and national levels.