Wound Healing Center
There's no reason you need to live with an open sore. Reid Wound Healing Center, conveniently located on Chester Boulevard south of Reid's main campus, is equipped and staffed to address the unique circumstances associated with each wound. In fact, we've been able to treat many open sores that have resisted traditional treatment with a success rate of 80% healed in 12-16 weeks!
Nearly 2.5 million Americans have non-healing wounds that can be caused by diabetes, circulatory problems, pressure ulcers, bone infections, and vascular wounds. Every wound is unique and the Wound Healing Center at Reid Health is equipped and staffed for your personal wound care needs.
Types of wounds treated:
- Burns
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Arterial and venous ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Traumatic ulcers
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Infected wounds
- Other wounds that will not heal
- Lower leg edema
- Lymphedema
Wound healing options:
At our Wound Healing Center, you'll receive the right treatment for optimal healing. To do this, your wound care physician may prescribe one or some of these therapies:
- Debridement (removal of dead or damaged tissue)
- Specially chosen dressings and compression wraps
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Bio-engineered tissue substitutes (skin grafting)
- Ostomy marking/care
- Callus Paring
- Incision and drainage
- Wound vac application/care
- Compression wraps
- Tenotomies
- Total Contact Casting
- Biopsies
Our center is staffed with a unique team of care providers dedicated to healing chronic and acute wounds. Our team includes a full-time wound and ostomy clinic specialists, Kendall Alig, NP and Amy Frantz, PA . The causes of open sores are complex and our group represents expertise in all of the major areas necessary to handle your particular circumstances and challenges.
Finding the right treatment could be as simple as changing a medication, but other circumstances may involve further evaluation. Whatever it takes for healing to occur, we're equipped and staffed to make it happen.