GATEWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WOUND AND HYPERBARIC CENTER RECOGNIZED WITH NATIONAL AWARD FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE
Granite City, IL, March 22, 2018 — Gateway Regional Medical Center’s Wound and Hyperbaric Center recently received the Center of Distinction from Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for twelve consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a minimum wound healing rate of at least 91 percent within 30 median days to heal.
“Gateway Regional Medical Center is committed to providing a leading wound care program for our community,” says M. Edward Cunningham, CEO of Gateway Regional Medical Center. “I am incredibly proud of our team for taking the initiative to achieve this designation and enhance the care we provide to our patients and community.”
Gateway Regional Medical Center’s Wound and Hyperbaric Center is a member of the Healogics network of nearly 700 Wound Care Centers and provides access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds. Gateway Regional Medical Center’s Wound and Hyperbaric Center offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time. Advanced treatments include negative pressure wound therapy, bio-engineered skin substitutes, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, biological and biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies.
For more information, please contact Beth Ann Gailey at (618) 558-1023 or email at BethAnn_Gailey@QuorumHealth.com.
About Gateway Regional Medical Center
Gateway Regional Medical Center is a 338-bed hospital with a 100 bed behavioral health unit. Located in Granite City, GRMC and its predecessors have served the community for over 100 years. Gateway is home to The Bone & Joint Center and is a leader in joint replacement surgery and recovery. With a medical staff of over 150 physicians, Gateway Regional provides a very broad range of services, including emergency services, orthopedics, home health and hospice, occupational health, and women and newborn services. For more information about Gateway Regional Medical Center, call (618) 798-3000.
About Healogics
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics and its affiliated companies manage a network of 700 outpatient Wound Care Centers® across the United States and multiple locations in the United Kingdom. Healogics currently has more than 3,000 employees, including nearly 300 employed providers (Healogics Specialty Providers). In addition to the company’s network of outpatient Wound Care Centers, Healogics providers partner with over 400 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds. More than 300,000 patients were treated by Healogics providers in 2017. For additional information, please visit Healogics.com.