When a wound from an accident, underlying disease or infection isn’t healing properly, appropriate care can save life and limb. Nanticoke Health Services offers this highly specialized care at our Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, easily accessible inside the hospital on the ground floor. This facility is designed to monitor, manage, and treat chronic non-healing wounds with the expertise from our highly trained wound care staff.

Wounds that resist healing can lead to many complications, including infection, sepsis, hospitalization, deformities, amputation, or decrease in function. The Center provides diagnosis and treatment for a variety of chronic or non-healing wounds in an outpatient setting.

• Pressure ulcers
• Arterial ulcers
• Venous wounds
• Diabetic wounds
• Surgical wounds
• Trauma wounds
• Radiation tissue damage
• Gangrene
• Complex soft tissue wounds
• Lymphedema
• Burns

At Nanticoke’s Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center, our team of specialists is trained to treat all types of wounds as early and efficiently as possible. The first step in the road to recovery of a non-healing wound is an examination by our Medical Director. Next, one of our specially trained clinicians creates an individualized treatment plan in which all the necessary caregivers – from specialty surgeons to therapists and family members – are included.  Advanced wound care dressings are available to promote rapid healing. The plan is then communicated to the primary care physician, who continues to treat underlying conditions and provide overall care for the patient. This treatment approach has been designed to complement the primary or referring physician’s care, not replace it. A physician has the option to call the center for an appointment for his or her patient or patients may call the center directly.

This emerging technology uses a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to speed wound healing. The chamber contains concentrated, specially pressurized oxygen. Lying in this chamber, breathing normally increases the concentration of oxygen in the blood. This makes more oxygen available to damaged body tissues, which helps the tissues repair themselves.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be used for the treatment of difficult medical problems such as:

• Chronic problem wounds, including diabetic foot wounds
• Compromised grafts and flaps
• Radiation injury
• Chronic refractory ostemoyelitis
• Acute ischemias
• Necrotizing soft tissue infections
• Gas gangrene

Patients may be referred to the Wound Center by their physician at (302) 628-8322 to schedule an appointment. The Center participates in many commercial insurance plans, HMOs and PPOs. Services are also covered by Medicare and Medicaid.