Wound Healing

As many as five million Americans cope daily with a chronic, non-healing wound that prevents them from enjoying their favorite activities or even performing simple routines. Chronic wounds are more than a nuisance: they can lead to an infection, tissue loss, and worse. Effective treatment is essential; modern therapeutic options can enable most patients to heal, and return to work and leisure activities.

The Wound Healing Program at Overlook Hospital offers:

• Multidisciplinary physician panel that utilizes the most advanced treatment strategies that combine both medical and surgical modalities
  
  
• Individualized treatment plans to suit the particular needs of each patient
  
  
• State-of-the-art Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
  
  
• Comprehensive case management to assure the complex needs of each patient are addressed, including dressing and appliance orders, home care arrangements, and communication with the patient’s physicians
  
  
• Inpatient consultation services
  
  
• Personalized care that yields high patient satisfaction scores and a 96.4 percent healing rate
  
  
• Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (CWOCN) who hold outpatient clinics for ostomy patients for appliance fittings, stomal markings and trouble-shooting