Hailey Caprara: The Nurse Who Runs Two Firms And Still Carries a Full Wound Care Caseload
Meet Hailey Caprara, RN BSN CWS DAPWCA. Founder of Halo Healing & Wound Care and Clinical Director at Heritage Wound Care. Compliance, compassion, and NIRS diagnosis across skin tones. Inductee, Wound Care Hall of Fame.
Damon Ebanks
Medipyxis
Hailey Caprara, RN BSN CWS DAPWCA — The Nurse Turning Wound Care Compliance Into a Superpower
The Rock Star Bio
Hailey Caprara is a Registered Nurse and ABWM Certified Wound Specialist based in Schenectady, New York, who founded Halo Healing & Wound Care and simultaneously serves as Clinical Director at Heritage Wound Care in Morristown, New Jersey. She is that rare wound care nurse who can walk into a skilled nursing facility, redesign the entire wound program, present research on it at a Wounds Canada webinar, and then quietly tell you the actual reason F-tags happen. Nearly a decade in wound care. Zero patience for shortcuts.
Here is the thing you should know before you look at her titles. Hailey is one of the sweetest, smartest, and hardest-working people I have met in this industry. Full stop. And by every reasonable measure — she runs a firm, she's clinical director at a multi-state group, she publishes research — she has earned the right to coast. To take the meetings, book the speaking gigs, and delegate the caseload.
She has decided, on purpose, not to do that.
Hailey still carries a full clinical caseload. Every day. At Heritage. While running Halo. While co-authoring research. While helping everyone else. The math on this makes no sense. She just decided the math didn't apply to her.
The Origin Story
Hailey's clinical footprint spans hospital-based wound centers, skilled nursing facilities, podiatric settings, outpatient settings, and long-term care — meaning she has seen the wound the hospital didn't finish, the wound the SNF inherited, and the wound the mobile provider is now trying to close. That kind of range is not accidental.
At Heritage Wound Care she works alongside Dr. Nirman Tulsyan (board-certified vascular surgeon, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Cleveland Clinic-trained) and clinical operations lead Mary Rose Marcaida, MSN, RN, serving 40+ contracted facilities across New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and California. That's a real operational footprint. Not a landing page.
What She's Building Right Now
- Halo Healing & Wound Care — her own consulting practice, based in New York (12303), offering Clinical Consulting, Staff Education, Workflow Development, Clinical Marketing, Research Support, Legal Nurse Consulting, Technology Integration, and Strategic Partnerships for wound care programs.
- Heritage Wound Care — Clinical Director role, running quality assurance and compliance across a multi-state footprint.
- Research — a published contributing researcher on "The Role of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Early Diagnosis Across Skin Tones," presented via Wounds Canada.
- Podcast appearances — featured on The Long Game by Apploi with David Pardo, Episode 10, titled "Wound care's hidden frontline: innovation, compliance, and compassion with Hailey Caprara."
Why You Need To Know Her
Because she is one of the only wound care clinicians in the country who is publicly, professionally, and personally focused on NIRS (near-infrared spectroscopy) diagnosis across skin tones — a topic the wound care industry has under-invested in for its entire history, and one where equitable outcomes literally hinge on the work. If you are building or evaluating wound imaging technology, her name should be on the reference list.
She is also the person who will tell you, on a podcast, that compliance is not the opposite of compassion — it is the operational proof of it.
Something She Didn't Tell Me
Hailey went from "nearly a decade of dedicated wound care experience" to founder of her own firm — and she still moonlights as Clinical Director at Heritage. That's someone who could not sit still if you paid her.
The detail I love most: her research contribution list at Heritage Wound Care is co-authored with the founding CEO (Dr. Tulsyan) and the clinical operations lead — meaning the entire executive team is at the bench generating knowledge, not just running clinics. That is exactly the kind of practice you send your family member to.
Also: Halo. She named her firm Halo. Not a coincidence in wound care — a halo dressing, a halo effect. That woman thinks in metaphors, and the metaphors point one direction: patient first.
The Signature Move
Bridging compliance and compassion in the same clinical minute. Hailey's genius is that she treats documentation as an act of patient advocacy, not paperwork. Her podcast title says it perfectly: innovation, compliance, and compassion. She is the person who will explain to your staff why a bulletproof note is also a bulletproof act of care.
How To Work With Her
- Halo Healing & Wound Care: halohealingandwoundcare.com
- Heritage Wound Care team page: heritagewoundcare.com/our-team
- LinkedIn: Hailey Caprara
- Podcast: The Long Game by Apploi, Episode 10
- Best way in: LinkedIn or Halo's contact form. If your ask is education, compliance, research, or NIRS — she will find time.
The Legend Quote
"Wound care's hidden frontline: innovation, compliance, and compassion." — episode framing for Hailey Caprara, The Long Game by Apploi
Translation: the three words nobody says together enough.
Hailey Caprara is an inductee of the Wound Care Hall of Fame, a Medipyxis series honoring the clinicians, operators, and builders who move this industry forward. See also: Kati Kaushal, Jennifer Bierhup, Nikki Johnston.