In addition, the centers provide another alternative to emergency departments, allowing hospitals to direct non-emergent patients away from crowded EDs.
Several Connecticut hospitals are opening wound care centers, which provide treatment for wounds that have not healed in less than 30 days. Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, for instance, plans to open a new 3,000-square-foot wound care center, and earlier this month Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London opened a wound care center.
These centers may provide hyperbaric oxygen therapy, negative pressure wound therapy, bio-engineered skin substitutes, biological and biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies, according to the report.
Related Articles on Hospital Specialty Center Construction:
23 Hospital Specialty Centers Under Construction or Completed
Washington’s Capital Medical Center Opens $5.5M Imaging, Wound-Care Center
NorthBay Healthcare’s Solano Diagnostics Imaging in CA Opens Imaging Center
