Center for Diabetic Foot Care
Providence Memorial Hospital has established a wound institute to assist patients and physicians with the treatment and management of non-healing wounds. Trained personnel specialize in treating all wounds, difficult and chronic, such as pressure ulcers, non-healing wounds, diabetic ulcers, venous stasis and arterial ulcers. Patients receive treatment designed to reduce the rates of infection and readmission into the hospital. Individualized patient education programs and treatment plans are developed to optimize involvement of the family physician. The staff also standardizes treatment programs to identify patients at risk for skin breakdown and facilitates treatment, follow-up and monitoring of wound care on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. The multidisciplinary approach includes representatives in the following areas:
- case management
- hyperbaric medicine
- orthopaedic surgery
- dietary
- hyperbaric technology
- physical therapy
- emergency medicine
- infectious diseases
- plastic surgery
- enterostomal therapy nursing
- information services
- vascular medicine
Patient education and participation in treatment is a strong focus. All educational materials and instruction stress the importance of having patients learn how to care for their own condition at home. Please call (915) 577-6000 for more information on the Providence Wound Institute.
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