The human body has a remarkable way of healing itself from abrasions, incisions, punctures, bruises, burns, fractures, germs, and other common disorders.  A vital ingredient to facilitate normal wound healing and life in general as we know it is oxygen (O₂). 

For patients with certain acute injuries or various medical abnormalities that interfere with their body's ability to utilyze oxygen properly, normal wound healing for them often develops into a complex medical condition requiring expert care.  A wound that lingers can lead to serious medical complications like scarring, infection, gangrene, and even amputation.  Current statistics conclude nearly 7 million people are living with chronic, non-healing wounds.  This staggering number clearly has adverse affects for afflicted patients, but also presents several challenges to healthcare providers.

However, there is hope! Over the past several years, there have been remarkable advancements in the understanding of complex, non-healing wounds.  These advancements not only provide much needed hope to afflicted patients who are dealing with "problem" wounds, but the array of new treatment options ensure patients have earlier recovery, require less if any hospitalization, eliminates or reduces permanent or prolonged disability, and provides a high healing rate for complicated wounds that have resisted traditional treatment.

Therefore, an OxyHeal® Comprehensive Wound Healing Center is one that is strategically engineered and intuitively prepared to successfully treat the wide variety of difficult wounds that exist today.  The Center will employ certified physicians and caregivers who specialize in making accurate assessments of a patient's current medical condition while taking into account their complete background history, physicians will have extensive knowledge regarding the underlying causes of complicated wounds, and the Center will offer the latest equipment and wound treatment modalities to begin early and successful intervention.

Some patients may suffer from painful venous ulcers, others will have diabetes related non-healing wounds, some are afflicted with wounds caused by the delayed effects of radiation, or skin grafts or flaps that are compromised and failing.  The fact is human tissues need an adequate supply of O₂ to survive and insufficient levels of O₂ lead to deterioration and death. 

An OxyHeal^® Comprehensive Wound Healing Center of Excellence specializes in a variety of complex wounds such as, but not limited to:

• Diabetic Ulcers
• Pressure Ulcers
• Persistent Skin Irritations
• Surgical Wounds
• Tramatic Wounds
• Venous Insufficiency
• Neuropathic Ulcers
• Ischemic Ulcers
• Critical Limb Ischemia
• Delayed Effects of Radiation Wounds
• Burns
• Vasculitis and other Inflammatory Ulcers
• Other Chronic, Non-Healing Wounds

An OxyHeal^® Comprehensive Wound Healing Center of Excellence offers the latest in treatment modalities:

• Compression Therapy
• Advanced Dressings
• IV Antibiotics
• Debridement
• Topical Treatments
• Growth Factory Therapy
• Lymphedema Management
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
• Bioengineered Skin Substituties (apligraf, allograft, xenograft)
• Nutritional Counceling
• Diabetes Educational Programs
• X-rays, Blood Cultures, other Laboratory & Vascular studies

OxyHeal® has been developing successful Wound Healing and/or Hyperbaric Medicine Programs as Centers of Excellence with our partner hospitals for nearly 40 years. These programs serve their local community, and because OxyHeal's Centers typically provide an increased patient capacity and a superior level of care, our Center's tend to become regional referral and resource centers for physicians, the community, and health systems focussed on centralizing their Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine patient services.  OxyHeal® Centers offer individualized treatment plans, utilize current evidence-based advanced care modalities, provide medical education with nutritional counseling, and use the latest technology for its electronic records documentation. The Center strives to identify the underlying medical and functional problems that cause the wound to develop in order to institute early treatment modalities, prevention, and aftercare programs for the patient.

	OxyHeal Health Group® collaborates with hospital leadership & architects to produce detailed suite layouts to ensure all patients are comfortable and healthcare staff have an organized and ample space to provide quality patient care.
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Healthcare staff administering patient care at a modern wound healing center. For patients that require advanced wound care (or certain types of trauma care), physicians will usually prescribe Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) for the most complex, non-healing wounds.  OxyHeal's group of companies offer unique capabilities and services to hospitals by providing hyperbaric medicine equipment only or a complete hospital based turnkey solution specifically designed to meet your goals & objectives.

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If you would like additional information regarding OxyHeal's 
Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine Centers of Excellence, please contact:

 OxyHeal Health Group^®

 Phone: 1 - (888) OXY-HEAL (699-4325)

 Local / Int'l Access: 1 - (619) 336-2022

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