The Advanced Wound Care Center at Logan Regional Medical Center Recognized with National Award for Clinical Excellence
July 9, 2020
Logan, WV (June 2020)- Logan Regional Medical Center physicians, leaders and clinicians gathered today to celebrate the Center of Distinction award, which was given to The Advanced Wound Care Center by Healogics, the nation's largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for twelve consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a minimum wound healing rate of at least 92 percent within 28 median days to heal. There were 601 Centers eligible for the Center of Distinction award and 367 achieved the honor.
The Advanced Wound Care Center is a member of the Healogics network of over 600 Wound Care Centers and provides access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds. The Advanced Wound Care 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 resonable amount of time. Leading edge treatments at the Center include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues and biosynthetic dressings. 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.
"Wounds affect so many in our communities. We are very fortunate to have an excellent Wound Care Center that offers state-of-the-art treatment practices and has a team of experts with vast knowledge in reintroducing the body's innate ability to heal. Getting our patients healed is our focus." - Stated Sabrina Hobbs, Advanced Wound Care Center Program Director.
About Healogics
Headquatered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the nation's wound healing expert. Last year over 350,000 patients received advanced wound care through a nationwide network of over 600 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.
