Wound Care Services

Advanced Wound Healing

The team of wound care specialists at Suburban Community Hospital provides a comprehensive medical approach to treating non-healing and diabetic wounds, including:

• Diabetic wounds
• Arterial/ischemic wounds
• Collagen vascular disease
• Frostbite
• Surgical wounds
• Venous stasis
• Pressure ulcers
• Radiation soft tissue injuries
• Osteomyelitis

We offer wound healing therapies proven to reduce healing time, improve healing rates and prevent possible limb loss. In fact, patients throughout the Suburban Community Hospital wound and hyperbaric centers have healing rates at 96% healing rate that is above the national average of 85 percent:

Skin grafting advances including bio-engineered skin substitutes during your initial evaluation at one of our Advance Wound Centers, our treatment team headed by a Center physician will conduct a comprehensive wound assessment. The assessment results are used to the develop your individualized treatment plan, which includes education, nutrition and physical therapy along with one or a combination of the following treatments:

• Surgical interventions
• Wound debridement
• Vascular studies
• Dressings/compression wraps
• Vacuum assisted closure
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Off-loading and diabetic support