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 The Wound Center at Clara Maass is a unique service dedicated to caring for people with wounds that have resisted healing. The Wound Center brings together a team of experienced physicians and nurses who combine knowledge in all areas of wound management. These specialists manage non-healing wounds, a major problem facing many with poor circulation or diabetes.
LLifestyle, environment and nutritional status play an important role in the body’s ability to heal. Each patient undergoes an assessment based on these factors to determine a personalized plan of care. Individualized treatment plans encourage the healing process while allowing patients the comfort of healing at home. Treatments prescribed by The Wound Center are likely to cure the non-healing wound of the average patient in six to eight weeks.
Patients who are referred to The Wound Center often suffer from a variety of conditions including:
- Lymphedema (which involves chronic swelling of the lower extremities)
- Diabetes
- Vascular conditions, including poor circulation
- Traumatic wounds
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma and lupus
- Cardiac conditions, neuro-muscular conditions and stroke
- Bone infections
- Malignancies
The Wound Center uses the latest modalities and technologies to heal wounds. Human skin equivalents, growth factors, hydropolymers and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) are just some of the treatments used with success. Human skin equivalents are made from harvested cells and applied directly to venous ulcers and non-healing diabetic ulcers. Growth Factor enhances the healing process in a chronic non-healing wound. HBOT provides systemic oxygen to the open wound at a very high pressure, furthering the body's ability to speed the healing process.
The Wound Center is located on the first floor of the Clara Maass Continuing Care Center. This setting provides patients with easy access to all the services of the hospital such as laboratory testing, radiological and imaging studies, and vascular studies, if needed.
The Wound Center staff, comprised of an expert comprehensive medical team, provides patients with the most effective treatment, resulting in faster healing.
The Wound Center at Clara Maass is open from
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday.
For more information about how The Wound Center at Clara Maass can help you, please call 973.844.4070.
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