Wound Care
Key Benefits of Outpatient Wound & Burn Care
1. Growing need and, in turn, demand for specialized wound care.
2. Systematic treatment approach.
3. Partnerships with referring and primary care physicians.
4. Immense value and benefits transferred to patients, namely vastly improved patient outcomes
5. Considerable cost benefits due to faster healing and as a result, reduced healthcare costs.
Many suffer for years, even decades, with wounds such as the following:
Venous Stasis, Pressure Ulcer, Soft Tissue Radionecrosis, Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Diabetes-related complications, including lower extremity amputations, and premature cardiovascular disease are a major cause of chronic wounds.
Diabetes Growth = 165% from 2000-2050
Hospitals are challenged by treating wounds
Our outpatient Wound & Burn Care Center can treat difficult and expensive wounds, particularly when intervening in the early stages of wound development.
The Advisory Board estimated that inpatient wounds were costing hospitals on average:
Four additional days per discharge.
7.2% increase in death.
$50,423 in additional costs per discharge.
Diabetes-related wounds and amputations are associated with high mortality rate
What is specialized wound care?
Specialized wound care is a focused, evidence-based approach to treatment that addresses not only the wound, but the many
co-morbidities of the wounded patient.
This requires multiple healthcare disciplines to apply appropriate therapy at the proper time.
Types of Wounds Treated
Our Center is Provider Driven.
Our Interdisciplinary Approach:
- Unites multiple specialties.
- Brings the providers and specialists together in healing patients.
Systematic approach to wound healing:
- Comprehensive evaluation & assessment
- Define etiology for wound (wound type)
- Design an individualized treatment plan to address:
- Adequate perfusion
- Presence of nonviable tissue
- Signs of infection or inflammation
- Presence of edema
- Conduciveness of wound healing environment
- Optimization of tissue growth
- Appropriateness of pressure offloading
- Controllability of pain
- Optimization of host factors
Our center offers a range of advanced treatments:
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
- Surgical debridement–removal of non-viable tissue to promote healing*
- Negative-pressure wound therapy
- Multi-layer compression therapy for venous disease and edema management.
- Topical application of skin substitutes and growth factors.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy as part of the approach
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the use of 100% oxygen applied at increased atmospheric pressure
Important adjunctive therapy for many conditions
Reimbursable by Medicare
Sets the standard for safety
Ensures safety with meticulous attention to proper procedures, employee training, and patient education.
Commitment to continuous quality improvement
A Snapshot of the Essential Steps to Healing
Who may benefit from our specialized care:
Both acute and chronic wound patients are cared for in the WCC.
This includes patients with complicated medical conditions who have not healed in a timely fashion.
May require advanced interventions in order to heal.
Benefits to Patients
- Faster healing and a shorter  recovery period.
- Limb salvage.
- Restoration of health and mobility.
- Improved quality of life.
Wound care education:
- To help patients understand their condition.
- Prevent complications.
- Prevent wound recurrence
