Local Wound Care Center(R) participates in seventh annual Healogics Wound Awareness Week – Canton Daily Ledger

CANTON-The Wound Care Center at Graham Health System, a member of the Healogics network, is helping raise awareness of chronic wounds during the seventh annual Wound Care Awareness Week, being held June 1 to June 5. Wound Care Awareness was established by Healogics in 2014 to bring attention to the chronic wound epidemic and the 6.7 million Americans who are currently living with non-healing wounds. Program Directors across the nation will dedicate the entire week to educating physicians, patients and the general public about the chronic wound epidemic and the advanced wound care solutions available. The Fulton and Mason County Wound Clinic and Hyperbaric Medicine at Graham Hospital offers advanced therapies to patients suffering from chronic wounds.

While there are already millions of people living with chronic wounds, the incidence is rising, fueled by an aging population and increasing rates of diseases and conditions such as obesity and the late effects of radiation therapy. A person with a wound has an average of three to four chronic conditions like diabetes, PAD, cardiovascular disease, and COPD. If left untreated, chronic wounds can lead to diminished quality of life and possibly amputation of the affected limb. Even more alarmingly, 50 percent of people die within five years of amputation.

The sooner a patient comes to us with a wound the faster they can heal ~ Dr. Andrew Roudebush, Wound Clinic Medical Director.

To support this underserved and growing population of people living with chronic wounds, Fulton and Mason County Wound Clinic and Hyperbaric Medicine, in partnership with Healogics, offers an evidence-based, systematic approach to advanced wound care. A patients individualized treatment plan may include specialized wound dressings, debridement, compression therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, advanced cellular products and topical growth factors, edema management and/or non-invasive vascular assessment. These treatments are the result of a team approach between the Centers physicians, nurses and the referring physician. A treatment plan is developed and scheduled based on the patients needs. Once treatment is complete, the patient will return to their primary physician to continue routine care.

People with wounds that have not improved with traditional methods of treatment may benefit from a visit to The Fulton and Mason County Wound Clinic and Hyperbaric Medicine facility. Visit http://www.woundcareawarenessweek.com to learn more about Wound Care Awareness Week and to hear from patients about how wound healing changed their life. To schedule an appointment, please call 309-649-6867 or visit Healogics.com.

Their main location is located in Canton at Graham Hospital and is where they see the majority of their patients, and is where they house their two hyperbaric chambers. They also have two satellite locations; one in Havana at Mason District Hospital and the other in Elmwood at Graham Medical Group.

About Healogics

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida., Healogics is the nations 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 companys 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

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