Wound Care Center
The Wound Care Center at Porter Adventist Hospital, managed by Healogics, provides specialized treatment for non-healing wounds, which are defined as sores or wounds that have not significantly improved from conventional treatments.
Our Services
Associated with inadequate circulation, poorly functioning veins, and immobility, non-healing wounds may lead to lower quality of life, amputations, and more seriously death if not treated properly. When wounds persist, a specialized approach is required for healing. Typically, a wound that does not respond to normal medical care within 30 days is considered a problem or chronic wound.
The Wound Care Center at Porter uses an interdisciplinary model of care, including infectious-disease management, physical therapy, occupational therapy, laboratory evaluation, nutritional management, pain management, diabetic education, radiology testing, and debridement to address total patient health. In addition to these comprehensive treatments, the adjunctive use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been proven effective in reducing swelling, fighting infection, and building new blood vessels, ultimately producing healthy tissue and saving the limb.
Wound care services at Porter Adventist Hospital
- Debridement
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Compression therapy & edema management
- Advanced dressing selection
- Pressure relieving devices
- Patient education
Conditions We Treat
- Venous ulcer
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Pressure ulcer
- Delayed radiation tissue damage
- Diabetic ulcer
- Osteomyelitis
- Arterial ulcer
- Necrotizing infections
- Vascular insufficiencies
- Neuropathic ulcer
- Surgical wounds
- Skin irritations
