Wound Clinic News & Notes

Wound Center Earns
Excellence Award
Niagara Falls (NY) Memorial Medical Center has been named a “Center of Excellence” by Restorix Health, a management company based in White Plains, NY.
According to Restorix Health officials, the excellence awards represent the highest achievement for wound centers in an attempt to distinguish facilities that demonstrate exceptional success by meeting or exceeding clinical, operational, and financial benchmarks in different categories (including healing outcomes and safety) along with scoring patient-satisfaction rates of 95 percent or higher. The Niagara facility is one of four centers to achieve the designation.
"This accreditation reaffirms the quality of care that the Wound Center of Niagara provides its patients every day," said medical director Michael Mitchell, MD. "We are proud to be a recipient of an award that recognizes the hard work and dedication of our staff."
The center is staffed with a multidisciplinary team of physicians along with nurses and technicians who possess advanced training in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. 

Wound Care Providers
Participate in Diabetes Awareness
In honor of National Diabetes Awareness Month, staff members at Ottumwa (IA) Regional Wound and Hyperbaric Center, a member of the Healogics network, are campaigning to educate healthcare providers and the public on chronic wounds. As part of the initiative, Ottumwa Regional team members visited local physician offices to provide education on the treatment of potential or existing chronic wounds for those also living with diabetes. 

Mimbres Memorial Hospital 
Opens Wound Clinic
Officials at Mimbres Memorial Hospital, Deming, NM, have announced the opening of an outpatient wound care clinic.
“Quality, accessible patient care is our continued commitment as we open the wound care clinic,” said chief executive officer Kelly Duke. “Between five and seven million Americans experience at least one form of a chronic wound annually and the incidence of these wounds is increasing by approximately 10 percent each year.  Many of these individuals suffer from wounds that refuse to heal despite conventional treatment. These chronic, non-healing wounds seldom involve a simple answer.”
The clinic staffs a multidisciplinary team of healthcare providers. 

Health System to Build
New Wound Clinic
Ground has been broken for a 10-unit facility that will provide wound care and hyperbaric treatments at Marshfield (WI) Clinic Health System. The Marshfield Clinic Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Tissue Repair is expected to open in early July, according to a report by the Hub-City Times. Michael Caldwell, PhD, MD, a general surgeon who specializes in wound healing, will reportedly oversee the facility. According to the report, Caldwell said the facility will be the first integrated center of its kind, housing wound care, wound surgery, and hyperbaric medicine in one facility.

New Wound Center 
Established in Oregon 
CHI Mercy Medical Center has opened an outpatient wound clinic on its campus in Roseburg, OR. The center is run by Healogics. “I do believe this center is going to be really successful, both from a patient care process and from an operational process,” said Joe Mallot, an area vice-president of Healogics who supervises wound centers in Oregon, southern Washington, and northern California, during an interview with a local newspaper The News Review.