Silver Cross Center for Advanced Wound Healing Heals with People

Celebrating wound center staff and their benefit to the community

With life-threatening chronic wounds on the rise, there is a greater need for an integrated approach to healing in a timely, cost-effective manner. Wound healing centers often collaborate across multiple specialties in an effort to reduce the risk of complications and amputations. The Silver Cross Center for Advanced Wound Healing staff includes clinicians with advanced training who are the cornerstones in the treatment of patients with problem wounds.

At the Center for Advanced Wound Healing, the staff focuses on “continuity of care,” meaning that patients will be seen and treated by the same team at each visit, making the healing process less stressful on the patient and encouraging better outcomes. They are dedicated to creating a cohesive plan for treatment and maintaining consistent communication to best meet the patient’s needs.

The Center for Advanced Wound Healing at Silver Cross Hospital treats many types of wounds. The approach to wound care is aggressive and comprehensive, yet caring and comforting. The center coordinates traditional and advanced therapies that aid and accelerate the healing process, such as, the application of skin substitutes. For patients that means faster healing times, longer-lasting results, decreased amputation rates and increased mobility – all leading to a better quality of life.

The types of wounds treated include:

• diabetic foot ulcers
• venous ulcers
• pressure ulcers
• surgical wounds
• traumatic wounds

• arterial ulcers
• radiation wounds
• compromised skin grafts and flaps
• crush injuries