For Nurses | Critical Care (ICU and CCU) | Emergency Department | Endoscopy Department | IV Therapy | Cardiology/Telemtry (2nd Floor) | Renal/Specialty Care Unit/Telemetry (3rd Floor) | Medical-Surgical/Gerontology (4th Floor) | Orthopedics/Neurology/Vascular (5th Floor) | Oncology-Women's Care | Operating Room | Peri-Anesthesia Nursing | Psychiatric Services | Radiation Oncology | Wound Healing Center
The wound Healing center at Baltimore Washington Medical Center is the first specialized wound care facility in Anne Arundel County and the only facility providing hyperbaric oxygen thereapy. The center features 3 hyperbaric oxygen chambers, six treatment areas and utilizes a proven clinical pathwayand the latest modalities and advancements in artificial skin techniques. It is an excellent resource for patients with chronic, non healing wounds.
Our center is staffed by a team of caring medical experts; comprised of physicians and registered nurse case managers. It is a friendly environment with a multi-disciplinary team of specialists in the fields of vascular surgery, general surgery, plastic surgery internal medicine, podiatry and hyperbarics.
As an outpatient center, patients come on a weekly or bi-weekly basis for complete wound care services including debridement, the latest in dressings and wraps and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The center treats wounds and ulcers including pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers and diabetic ulcers of the lower extremities; skin, bone and tissue conditions including necroticing infection, compromised skin grafts and flaps, cellulites, osteoradionecrosis, chronic refractory osteomyelitis, lymphadema and post radiation tissue damage.
The Wound Healing Center has been open since September of 2000 and has been very successful with a heal rate of +/- 90% in 16 weeks or less. Patient and physician satisfaction is very high and the source of most of our referrals. The nursing staff has found the work in wound care to be extremely rewarding and satisfying as they help patients resume a normal and active lifestyle.
