Dr. Seana Rutherford offers a variety of wound care consulting services that include testifying, consulting, and providing litigation support on wound care-related issues.
The founder of Legal Expert Wound Care Consultants, Seana has been a licensed nurse for the past 15 years, and a working Nurse Practitioner since 2015. Overseeing our team of clinicians, Seana is distinctively qualified as a Certified Wound Specialist under the American Board of Wound Management and is also Wound Care Certified under the National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy, where she is a Clinical Preceptor. Her experience is extensive across the continuum of care with clinical experience in hospitals, home care, long-term care, and domiciliary care settings.
As a Nurse Practitioner, Seana’s clinical practice continues to be based in wound care today. She functions as a Nurse Practitioner treating both acute and chronic wounds in patients across the lifespan, primarily focused in the long-term care setting. Her education, training, and experience have made her intently familiar with the standards of care applicable to cases involving patient wound care management — expertise that makes Seana invaluable to legal teams that require the most recent evidence-based knowledge to determine if the standard of care was met.
Our clinicians work directly with legal teams to provide a comprehensive analysis of each case.
Our clinicians possess current experience in the medical field and the credentials necessary to support case reviews.
Our team provides thorough medical case reviews and produces comprehensive expert witness statements for legal cases involving wounds.
Our clinicians possess the sound knowledge needed for cases specific to long-term care.
Our consulting group has evolved organically based on Seana’s unique expertise and medical specialty in wound care specific to aging populations and long-term care environments.
Representing both patients and nursing and long-term care facilities, our professional wound care consulting is based on the standard of care requirements for patients. When attorneys need balanced, unbiased case reviews and expertise to build strong arguments, they turn to us.
Seana is passionate about quality patient care. She’s a leader in progressive wound care, delivering master-level wound identification, advanced healing treatments, and ongoing maintenance that helps drive superior wound healing for patients in long-term care settings.
A collaborator by nature, Seana works as part of an interdisciplinary team, keeping current on best-practice treatments specific to long-term care environments. She also partners with physicians to treat conditions such as Osteomyelitis and Peripheral Vascular Disease and perform routine skin care and surgical intervention of large wounds. Her unique skillset and knowledge base make her instrumental in building winning cases.
Legal Wound Care Consulting provides specialty, credentialed wound care expertise that helps legal teams build winning cases.