Healogics: Atrium Medical Center Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services Named Center of the Year

The Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Services at Atrium Medical Center received the distinguished Center of the Year award from Healogics®. More than 600 Wound Care Centers had the opportunity to qualify for the award, and only one center received this honor. In order to qualify for Center of the Year, stringent quality measures must be met, such as high healing outcomes, low days to heal, and excellent patient satisfaction rates.

Additionally, the Wound Care Center at Atrium received the Robert A. Warriner III, MD, Clinical Excellence Award from Healogics®. As a Center of Excellence, Atrium’s wound center achieved patient satisfaction rates higher than 92 percent and a healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 30 median days to heal, for a minimum of two consecutive years, according to Healogics.

The Wound Care Center at Atrium also received Healogics’ Robert A. Warriner III, MD, Clinical Excellence Award in 2019. Additionally, the center received the Distinguished Center of the Year Award from Healogics in 2018. In 2017, Atrium’s Wound Care Center was named the nationwide top-performing Center of the Year.

Atrium’s Wound Care Center is a member of the Healogics network of more than 600 Wound Care Centers and provides access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds. Atrium’s Wound Care Center offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections, and other chronic wounds which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time. Leading-edge treatments at the center include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. Atrium’s Wound Care Center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen to help promote the healing of the wound.

For more information on Atrium’s Wound Care Center, please call (513) 974-5700(513) 974-5700 or visit www.PremierHealth.com/services/burn-and-wound-center.

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