What is a Comprehensive Wound Center?
The Minneola Wound Healing Center is a comprehensive wound center, a coordinated outpatient center which utilizes advanced techniques and therapies to provide the best chance of wound healing. A comprehensive wound center can provide outpatient care to those suffering with a chronic wound in a way no other provider can – all in one location.
Our wound center follows a multidisciplinary approach to wound care, coordinating traditional and advanced therapies that aid and accelerate the healing process, which may include:
• Diagnostic testing (can include vascular testing, blood tests, x-rays)
• Nutritional evaluation
• Infection control
• Specialized dressings
• Pressure-relieving devices
• Debridement (removal of dead or infected tissue)
• Patient education
• Cellular, acellular, matrix-like products (CAMPs), also called skin substitutes
What to Expect at Your Wound Care Appointment
Non-healing wounds rarely result from a single cause, and wound healing can be affected by many outside factors. Because of this, upon admission to our center, a provider-led team with advanced training in wound care will conduct a comprehensive patient assessment. This includes evaluating your wound and reviewing your medical history. You may also need special tests that give us information about circulation and infection. The results from this thorough evaluation and diagnostic testing will then be used to customize the most effective treatment plan to stimulate healing.
Wound Care Treatment Plan
Your treatment plan is the personalized plan your provider creates to help you heal. It includes everything your wound care provider is doing in clinic and what you need to do at home between appointments, including following dressing orders, changing your diet or attending your weekly appointments.
Throughout your time as a patient at our center, we will also keep your primary care provider or referring physician informed on your treatment through timely progress reports, and you will be discharged from our center back to their office when the plan is complete.
Following your treatment plan is the single most important factor in your healing. Please don’t hesitate to contact your care team if you have any questions about your wound care treatment plan.