--- title: "Home Health Care Best Practices: M2250 Pressure Ulcer Care Plan" description: "Visit our blog 'Home Health Care Best Practices: M2250 Pressure Ulcer Care Plan' to know Best Practice Assessment Strategies for Pressure Ulcer Risk." image: https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/hubfs/Images/img-pressure-ulcer.jpe --- [![PowerPath.ai](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Power-Path-copy.ai_-2048x263.png?width=2000&height=256&name=Power-Path-copy.ai_-2048x263.png "PowerPath.ai")](https://powerpath.ai/) - [How It Works](https://powerpath.ai/how-it-works/) - [Tools for Growth](https://powerpath.ai/tools-for-growth/) - [Meet Pattii](https://powerpath.ai/meet-pattii/) - [Resources](https://powerpath.ai/resources/) - [Blog](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog) - [About](https://powerpath.ai/about/) - [Contact](https://powerpath.ai/contact/) [My Account](https://secure.myhomecarebiz.com/) [Get Demo](https://melissa-myhomecarebiz.youcanbook.me/) ![BlogHeaderImg](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BlogHeaderImg.png?width=2000&height=666&name=BlogHeaderImg.png "BlogHeaderImg") # Home Health Insights Stay informed with the latest news in home health. ## Browse by Topic - [Regulatory News for Home Health & Hospice (173)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/regulatory-news-for-home-health-hospice) - [Clinical Best Practices for Home Health & Hospice (22)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/clinical-best-practices-for-home-health-hospice) - [Home Health Billing & Coding (21)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/home-health-billing-coding) - [Home Health Marketing (18)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/home-health-marketing) ## Home Health Care Best Practices: M2250 Pressure Ulcer Care Plan Home Health Care Best Practices: M2250 Pressure Ulcer Care Plan Posted by Joy Joan E. De Castro, RN, MSN on Jan 31, 2017 # Home Health Care Best Practices: M2250 Pressure Ulcer Care Plan Posted by [Joy Joan E. De Castro, RN, MSN](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/author/joy-joan-e-de-castro-rn-msn) on Jan 31, 2017 For the patient with and/or at risk for pressure ulcers, in addition to assessing M2250 Pressure Ulcer care and prevention on OASIS C home health care forms, also include these [MyHomecareBiz](http://myhomecarebiz.com/) Best Practice assessment strategies:   Best Practice Assessment Strategies for Pressure Ulcer Risk 1. Determine the client’s general condition of the skin. 2. Assess the client’s nutritional status, including weight, weight loss, and serum albumin levels, if indicated. 3. Assess the client’s awareness of the sensation of pressure. 4. Assess for fecal and urinary incontinence. 5. Assess patient’s mobility.  6. Assess for environmental moisture (excessive perspiration, high humidity, wound drainage). 7. Assess the amoun![img-pressure-ulcer.jpe](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/hubfs/Images/img-pressure-ulcer.jpe)t of shear (pressure exerted laterally) and friction (rubbing) on the client’s skin. 8. Assess the surface that the clients spend a majority of time on (mattress for bedridden clients, cushion for clients in wheelchairs). 9. Assess the skin over bony prominences (sacrum, trochanters, scapulae, elbows, heels, inner and outer malleolus, inner and outer knees, back of the head). 10. Perform pressure ulcer risk assessment: Braden scale, Norton scale. 11. Assess the client’s level of pain, especially related to dressing change and procedures. 12. Assess and stage the pressure ulcers.  ### (M2250) Plan of Care Synopsis: f. Intervention(s) to prevent pressure ulcers If the physician-ordered Plan of Care includes planned clinical interventions to reduce pressure on bony prominences or other areas of skin at risk for breakdown, select “Yes.”   Planned interventions include teaching on frequent position changes, proper positioning to relieve pressure, careful skin assessment and hygiene, use of pressure-relieving devices such as enhanced mattresses, etc. If the clinician completed a formal or informal assessment that indicated the patient is not at risk for pressure ulcers, select “NA” (unless orders for interventions to reduce pressure on areas of skin at risk for breakdown are present). If more than one pressure ulcer risk assessment was completed by the assessing clinician, all must be negative in order to select “NA.”  ### (M2250) Plan of Care Synopsis: g. Pressure ulcer treatment based on principles of moist wound healing OR order for treatment based on moist wound healing has been requested from physician  If the physician-ordered Plan of Care contains orders for pressure ulcer treatments based on principles of moist wound healing (for example, moisture retentive dressings) OR if such orders have been requested from the physician, select “Yes.”   If the patient has no pressure ulcers OR no pressure ulcers needing moist wound healing treatments per physician, select “NA” (unless orders for pressure ulcer treatments based on principles of moist wound healing are present).   Moist wound healing treatment is any primary dressing that hydrates or delivers moisture to a wound thus promoting an optimal wound environment and includes films, alginates, hydrocolloids, hydrogels, collagen, negative pressure wound therapy, unna boots, medicated creams/ointments.   **[For more information on Medicare's Home Health Care Quality Indicators click here.](https://www.medicare.gov/homehealthcompare/search.html)** ### **[Download the Home Health Careplan for Congestive Heart Failure](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/home-health-teaching-plan-for-chf)**  Tags: [Clinical Best Practices for Home Health & Hospice](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/clinical-best-practices-for-home-health-hospice) [![you will make Medicare happy](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/375308/98f7e1e7-1e9a-44ed-994f-96665cf71930.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/375308/98f7e1e7-1e9a-44ed-994f-96665cf71930) ### Topics - [Clinical Best Practices for Home Health & Hospice (22)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/clinical-best-practices-for-home-health-hospice) - [CMS News for Billing (6)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/cms-news-for-billing) - [Conditions of Participation (16)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/conditions-of-participation) - [COVID-19 (11)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/covid-19) - [DX Alzheimers/Dementia (3)](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/topic/dx-alzheimers-dementia) ### Recent Posts [![Power-Path-copy.ai_-2048x263](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Power-Path-copy.ai_-2048x263.png?width=2000&height=256&name=Power-Path-copy.ai_-2048x263.png "Power-Path-copy.ai_-2048x263")](https://powerpath.ai/) ## AI-powered EMR and outcomes-based marketing tools that help home health agencies operate smarter, improve patient results, and grow referrals—all in one HIPAA-compliant platform. - [How It Works](https://powerpath.ai/how-it-works/) - [Tools for Growth](https://powerpath.ai/tools-for-growth/) - [Meet Pattii](https://powerpath.ai/meet-pattii/) - [Resources](https://powerpath.ai/resources/) - [Blog](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog) - [About](https://powerpath.ai/about/) - [Contact](https://powerpath.ai/contact/) [Get Demo](https://melissa-myhomecarebiz.youcanbook.me/) ## © 2026 PowerPath.ai. 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