Methodist Health Advanced Wound Healing Center recognized for second time with national award for clinical excellence

The Advanced Wound Healing Center at Methodist Health in Henderson has received the Center of Distinction Award from Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a minimum wound healing rate of at least 91 percent within 30 median days to heal. There were 621 Centers eligible for the award and 423 achieved the honor. The Advanced Wound Healing was first recognized with the Center of Distinction Award in 2016.

“We are honored and thrilled to have achieved the Center of Distinction award for a second time,” said Ashley O’Connor, Program Director at Methodist Health’s Advanced Wound Healing Center. “Our staff has exceeded high metrics while exemplifying exceptional care, teamwork and working hard to heal our patients as quickly as possible with the best possible patient outcomes. We are proud of the seven years of wound care services we have provided to the community.”

The Advanced Wound Healing Center is a member of the Healogics network of nearly 700 Wound Care Centers® and provides access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds. The 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. The Center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen to help progress the healing of the wound.

About the Advanced Wound Healing Center
The Advanced Wound Healing Center at Methodist Health opened in January 2012 and uses the latest advances for treatments and sophisticated case management to help patients with chronic wounds heal faster. These include diabetic wounds, pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, arterial ulcers, non-healing surgical wounds, complex soft tissue wounds, infected wounds, traumatic wounds and wounds caused by radiation treatment. For more information, call the Advanced Wound Healing Center at 270-631-2399 or visit methodisthospital.net/woundcare.

About Healogics
Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, Healogics is the nation’s wound healing expert. Last year, over 330,000 patients received advanced wound care through a nationwide network of nearly 700 Wound Care Centers®. The Healogics team is made up of almost 3,000 employees, 4,000 affiliated physicians and a Healogics Specialty Physician practice group of nearly 300. In addition to the company’s network of outpatient Centers, Healogics partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds, and provides inpatient consults at more than 80 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative, an effort launched in 2017 to provide peer-reviewed research, recognizes the value and relevance of big data and advanced analytics to drive continuous, collaborative learning towards a better understanding of how to efficiently utilize healthcare resources for patients with wounds. For additional information, please visit Healogics.com.