Wound Care Center earns Center of Distinction Award

Patients heal faster at Baptist Hospital East’s Wound Care Center.

The Center was honored in 2011 with Diversified Clinical Services’ Center of Distinction Award. Criteria for the award include meeting or exceeding quality standards for patient healing plus patient satisfaction at 92 percent or above.

The Baptist East Center achieved a 97 percent healing rate, which bests national benchmarks. Center patients heal typically heal in 24 days (that’s the median).

The Wound Care Center, opened in January 2009, provides comprehensive wound care for people who suffer from non-healing wounds. If not treated, wounds can lead to amputation.

The center provides full-time wound care, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, where the patient is placed in a pressurized chamber and breathes 100 percent oxygen. This increases oxygen in the blood stream and enhances the healing process. Since the Center opened, more than 2,300 hyperbaric treatments have been given.

A chronic or hard-to-heal wound is one that does not respond to normal medical care within 30 days. The variety and complexity of chronic wounds requires specialized care. Eight million Americans suffer from chronic wounds. Associated with inadequate circulation, poorly functioning veins, and immobility, non-healing wounds occur most frequently in the elderly and in people with diabetes and other diseases — groups that are sharply rising as the nation ages and chronic diseases increase.

About Diversified Clinical Services

Diversified Clinical Services, located in Jacksonville, Fla., is the world’s largest wound care management company with over 325 hospital partners delivering excellent evidence-based care to patients with chronic wounds. DCS has been the leader in wound care for over 20 years, offering the most advanced methods – including adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy