The Wound Healing Center at Baltimore Washington Medical Center is a state-of-the-art, outpatient resource. It is the first specialized wound care facility in Anne Arundel County that has three hyperbaric oxygen chambers; in addition, the center has six treatment areas and can provide the most advanced artificial skin techniques available.

The skilled and caring staff of medical experts include registered nurse case managers and physicians who are specialists in vascular surgery, general surgery, plastic surgery, internal medicine, podiatry or hyperbaric medicine.

Services

Medical conditions that are treated at the Wound Healing Center include:

- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Arterial/venous stasisulcers
- Pressure sores
- Bone infections (osteomyelitis)
- Gangrene
- Radiation injuries
- Soft tissue infections
- Post-op infections

Referral to the Wound Healing Center can be made when any of the following criteria apply:

- Full or partial thickness wounds that fail to show significant clinical improvement
- Other necrotizing soft tissue (subcutaneous, muscle, fasia) infections
- Osteomyeltis
- Radiation tissue injury (soft tissue and osteoradionecrosis)
- Crush injury
- Compromised or failing skin graft and flaps
- Brown recluse spider bites
- Vascular insufficiency ulcers
- Diabetic/neuropathic wounds
- Lymphedema/venous stasis
- Gangrene/necrosis
- Pressure ulcers /decubitus
- Post-op infections
- Burns
- Non-healing infected wounds

For more information, please call 410-787-4900