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 Medical Center, which has been awarded the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission with Disease-Specific Care Certification, 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
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