Connecticut Wound Care Centers Pop Up as Hospitals Prepare for Service Line Growth

Wound care is a service line that hospitals expect to grow as populations age and the incidence of patients with diabetes and other chronic illnesses increases, according to a Hartford Business Journal report.

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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.

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