Saint Joseph’s Medical Center’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, an outpatient facility offering a comprehensive approach for patients with non-healing wounds, has received accreditation from the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society.
UHMS accreditation means the facility has met the highest standards of care and patient safety through rigorous evaluation of the adequacy of the facility, equipment, staff and training to ensure that the utmost quality is maintained. UHMS is an international nonprofit association serving some 2,000 physicians, scientists, associates and nurses from more than 50 countries in the fields of hyperbaric and dive medicine.
The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center, which officially opened earlier this year, provides a comprehensive approach to treating patients with non-healing wounds. The highly-skilled team features physicians, nurses and technicians with advanced training in wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which promotes healing by increasing the level of oxygen in the tissue and improving the healing efficiency of the white blood cells.
Therapy is administered in a hyperbaric chamber that delivers 100 percent oxygen with increased atmospheric pressure, stimulating the entire body’s natural healing responses. Patients undergoing therapy have complete privacy in comfortable, individual chambers equipped with televisions and headphones for patient entertainment.
The center’s patients are examined by a multidisciplinary staff trained in wound care and evaluated for all possible physical conditions – such as diabetes – that could interfere with proper healing. The care team follows evidence-based clinical pathways to determine why wounds are not healing and then develops individual treatment plans, utilizing the most effective technologies available to provide maximum healing and relief.
The Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 127 S. Broadway, Yonkers. For more information about wound care or to schedule an appointment, call 914-378-7900 or visit www.saintjosephs.org.
