Alexian Wound Healing Centers

Alexian Wound Health Centers are staffed with a multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses with expertise in comprehensive wound management. Our program is designed to offer high quality care to patients suffering from wounds that have not responded to traditional treatment.

Alexian Wound Healing Center Receives National Award

Alexian Wound Healing Centers have been recognized as a leading provider of state-of-the-art care for chronic wounds with the Front Runner Award from National Healing Corporation (NHC), a leader in disease management accounting for more than 30 percent of the nation's managed and outsourced wound healing centers.

The Wound Healing Center was honored for maximizing its resources to meet the growing need of its community. Mary Pat Lyons, RN, CWS, CNC, Executive Director, accepted the award at the company's recent awards ceremony.

Alexian Wound Healing Centers specialize in treatment for those suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections, compromised skin grafts and flaps, and wounds that have not healed within 30 days. Other services include disease management and diabetes care. Chronic wounds often affect the health of the elderly and people living with vascular disease and diabetes.

One of the highly specialized treatments offered at the center is hyperbaric oxygen therapy which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure to increase the amount of oxygen in the patient's blood and promote healing from the inside out. In addition to tissue oxygenation, the Wound Healing Center also employs the use of vascular studies, tissue culturing and pathology, revascularization, skin grafting and clinical or surgical debridement.

New Center Offers Advanced Treatment for Patients with Slow-healing Wounds

Alexian Brothers Health System has opened wound care center, that offer state-of-the-art treatment for diabetics with foot ulcers and for other patients with slow-healing wounds. Alexian Wound Healing Centers use evidence-based algorithms, or proven, step-by-step procedures, modified as necessary to fit the unique needs of each patient. Located in the Niehoff Pavilion on the campus of Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Ill., the center also features two hyperbaric oxygen chambers that promotes wound healing by enriching the blood with oxygen unleashing the healing power of the red blood cells.

The center's staff includes:

• Four nurses who are certified wound specialists
• two hyperbaric oxygen technicians
• and eleven physicians,  including three general surgeons, four podiatrists, a plastic surgeon, two infectious disease specialists an internal medicine and a physiatrist.

The Satellite Wound Center is located in Alexian Brothers Medical Plaza in Hoffman Estates. The center offers a comprehensive wound care treatment plan and coordinates hyperbaric oxygen treatments with the main wound center.

The entire staff has attended wound-care and hyperbaric-treatment training at Ohio State University.... More