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The Center for Wound Care at Northwest Hospital

The Center for Wound Care at Northwest Hospital has a highly skilled team of experts who provide comprehensive wound treatment with the goal of healing or stabilizing wounds as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Non-Healing Wounds

A wound care specialist should be consulted immediately about non-healing wounds. In addition to being painful, non-healing wounds can lead to infections and, in the worst cases, gangrene or amputation.

Wounds can develop for various reasons. Among them are:

Our Program

Physicians at the Center for Wound Care at Northwest Hospital perform thorough evaluations and provide accurate diagnoses (using cutting-edge, evolving technologies to determine the exact cause of a non-healing wound), effective treatments and post-acute outreach services.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a specialized medical treatment for chronic wounds in which the patient breathes 100 percent oxygen inside a pressurized chamber.

The Northwest Hospital HBOT program is recognized and accredited by the  Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society.
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For each patient, a comprehensive, individualized care plan is created to effectively manage complex wounds that have not responded to conventional treatment.

The care process continues until your wound is healed or stable. Your referring physician will regularly be informed of your progress.

Our Team

A highly skilled, compassionate group of experts makes up the professional staff at The Wound Care Center at Northwest Hospital. Among them are:

For More Information

To learn more about The Center for Wound Care at Northwest Hospital or to begin your program of care, call 410-521-8390.