Baxter Regional Wound Healing Center recognized with a national award for continued excellence in wound healing

Leaders, physicians and clinicians of Baxter Regional Wound Healing Center are celebrating the center’s receipt of the Robert A. Warriner III Center of Excellence award. The Center of Excellence award is given to wound care centers that have met the highest level of quality standards for a minimum of two consecutive years.

The Center was awarded this prestigious honor by Healogics, the nation’s leading and largest wound care management company. The award is named for Dr. Robert Warriner, a pioneer in wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Across the country, 334 centers were eligible and 169 centers were honored with this award in 2017, based on the centers key performance indicators for 2016. The criteria for the award are based on distinct key quality indicators, patient satisfaction rates higher than 92 percent, a healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 31 median days along with patient outlier rates below 19 percent.

Baxter Regional Wound Healing Center is a member of the Healogics network of nearly 800 wound care centers, with access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds. Baxter Regional Wound Healing 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. Some of the leading-edge treatments offered at the Wound Healing Center include negative pressure wound therapy, debridement, application of autologous skin grafting to the wound, offloading or total contact casts and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

“We are fortunate to have the resources available to accommodate the growing needs of the community,” said Jamie Manes, Baxter Regional Wound Healing Center Program Director. “Our excellent team of staff and physicians strive to provide quality care with successful outcomes to all patients. We are honored to receive this award consecutively the past three years. There is no greater reward than seeing a patient heal after months or even years of dealing with chronic wounds. The team at the Baxter Regional Wound Healing Center extends our gratitude to the communities we serve for allowing us to be your healers.”

Baxter Regional Wound Healing Center opened to the community in October, 2006. The center originally opened with four treatment rooms and two hyperbaric oxygen chambers. In 2011, the center expanded with the grand opening of the new facility that included five treatment rooms and a third hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Baxter Regional Wound Healing Center was pleased to complete an expansion last year which included the addition of a fourth hyperbaric oxygen chamber.