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Story Archives: Wound healing center to officially open


Wound healing center to officially open
posted Thursday, June 24th, 2010 @ 12:19 pmE-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
St. Francis Medical Center's new Wound Healing Center will officially open June 29.
It will offer state-of-the-art specialized wound healing care.

To establish the center, St. Francis Medical Center partnered with Florida-based National Healing Corp., which manages wound healing centers nationwide with an average healing rate of 80 percent attained in 12 to 16 weeks of therapy. Though would healing centers treat patients with chronic and advanced conditions that have not responded to previous therapies, the rate of limb amputation for non-responsive wounds is less than two percent.

"With the rising rate of diabetes, there is a great need for a specialized care center that can treat the ulcers associated with the disease as well as help patients with other skin, bone and tissue conditions caused by illness or injury," according to Pamela Bratton, director of the General Surgery Service Line at St. Francis Medical Center.
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