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Methodist Wound Treatment Center: Celebrating 10 years of saving lives, limbs

Posted at 9:00 pm June 21, 2016
By Kelly Goodman Leave a Comment

On June 8, the Methodist Wound Treatment Center celebrated its 10 year anniversary and Wound Care Awareness Week during an open house celebration and education event. Guests had a chance to meet the staff, tour the Center, enjoy refreshments and learn more about the services and specialized products used for treatment. (Submitted photo)

On June 8, the Methodist Wound Treatment Center celebrated its 10-year anniversary and Wound Care Awareness Week during an open house celebration and education event. Guests had a chance to meet the staff, tour the Center, enjoy refreshments and learn more about the services and specialized products used for treatment. (Submitted photo)

 

When vascular surgeon Dr. David Stanley was sent on a mission in 2005 to “look into” hyperbaric medicine as part of a new wound treatment center at Methodist Medical Center, he was skeptical. “I didn’t think it was much good,” Dr. Stanley recalls with a laugh.

Ten years later, Dr. Stanley serves as director of Methodist’s Wound Treatment Center and is an outspoken advocate of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The procedure is just one of many treatment options offered at the Wound Treatment Center, which celebrated its 10th anniversary with an open house and wound care education event on June 8.

The goal of the center is to improve patients’ quality of life by managing wounds to ensure that they heal quickly and completely. The Center’s staff of nine employees and four physicians bring their expertise to the challenge of non-healing wounds. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Health Tagged With: advanced wound care, David Stanley, Deena Jenkins, Frances Cross, hyperbaric medicine, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Ken Miller, Kristie Teffetteller, Methodist Medical Center, Methodist Wound Treatment Center, Michelle Bailey, Nawras Baban, Shanon Gearin, Tristan Murray, Wound Treatment Center

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