At Ascension St. Vincent’s Blount Wound Center, we promote wound healing for your total health and well-being. Our wound care specialists treat many types of wounds including burns, diabetic foot ulcers, venous and arterial leg ulcers, surgical wounds, and hard-to-heal-wounds. We listen to understand your health concerns. Then, we deliver a care plan that’s right for you.
Wound healing services
Our care team provides treatment options for a range of wounds, including but not limited to:
- Arterial leg ulcers due to poor blood flow (arterial vascular disease)
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Ischemia or gangrene
- Osteomyelitis (bone infections)
- Pressure ulcers
- Surgical or traumatic wounds
- Venous leg ulcers due to venous insufficiency disease (venous reflux/venous hypertension)
- Wounds caused by auto-immune disease such as pyoderma, scleroderma or vasculitis
- Wounds caused by burns
- Wounds caused by edema (swelling)
- Wounds caused by malignancy (cancer)
- Wounds caused by radiation injury
- Wounds caused by soft tissue infections
We also deliver outpatient wound care. Your care plan may include:
- Advanced wound dressings
- Cellular tissue-based products
- Compression therapies
- Epidermal autografting
- Negative pressure vacuum therapy
- Weekly debridement of devitalized tissue or biofilms
Helping you care for your wound at home
Our doctors and nurses listen to understand you and your health concerns. We show you how to improve your wound-cleaning hygiene at home as part of your personalized recovery plan. Our goal is to help prevent rehospitalization for infection or wound-healing complications, and improve your quality of life.
