Wound care centers at Baptist Jacksonville and Baptist Beaches are recipients of the 2018 Center of Excellence award from Healogics Inc., a provider of advanced wound care services. Both Baptist Health locations achieved patient satisfaction rates higher than 92% and a healing rate of at least 91% in less than 30 median days to heal, for a minimum of two consecutive years.
“Chronic wounds affect 25% of diabetics and 1 in 4 families have a family member with a chronic wound,” said Denise Anderson, program manager for Baptist Beaches Wound Care Center. “At best, a wound interferes with enjoying the beach or the pool, or at worst, can lead to amputation. Early intervention with specialized wound care centers like the ones we have at Baptist Health prevent amputation and allows people get back to enjoying their lives.”
Baptist Health’s wound care centers offer highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds that have not healed in a reasonable amount of time. Leading-edge treatments include total contact casts and compression wraps for diabetic foot ulcers, total contact negative pressure wound therapy, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. The centers also offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by breathing in 100% oxygen to help the wound heal.
The wound care centers at Baptist Jacksonville and Baptist Beaches are members of the Healogics network of nearly 700 wound care centers, with access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds.
