Everyone has heard that time heals all wounds but in truth, without advanced therapies, some wounds take years, even decades to heal. Galesburg Cottage Hospital's Wound Healing Center is the only wound care center in the tri county area of Knox, Warren and Henry counties.
With the rising rate of diabetes, there is a great need for a specialized care center that can treat the ulcers associated with the disease as well as help patients with other skin, bone and tissue conditions caused by illness or injury.
Galesburg Cottage Hospital has partnered with Florida based National Healing Corporation to establish the center. The company has an average healing rate of 80-percent within the first 16 weeks of therapy time. Although the center treats patients with chronic and advanced conditions that have not responded to previous therapies, the rate of limb amputation for non-responsive wounds is less than four percent.
Our GCH Wound Healing Center utilizes digital photographs and use of hyperbaric oxygen chambers to track the patient's healing progress. After performing a full diagnosis on a patient's first visit, photographs are taken of the wound at each subsequent visit to evaluate the therapy's progress. Likely candidates for treatment are those suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections, compromised skin grafts and flaps and wounds that haven't healed within 30 days. The center's hyperbaric oxygen chambers can also be used to treat patients suffering from such uncommon ailments as cyanide poisoning, gangrene, carbon monoxide poisoning, brown recluse spider bites or decompression sickness.
Truly, our new wound care center partnered with our diabetic health education program is just one more reason to choose Galesburg Cottage Hospital for your health care needs.
If you'd like to know more about Knox County's only wound care center ask your physician or call the center, 309-345-4216, for more information. We will happily send you more information about this landmark healing center and our monthly health seminars. Galesburg Cottage Hospital. Quality Care. Right Here.