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Wound Center at Clara Maass is a unique service dedicated to caring
for people with wounds that have resisted healing. The Wound Center
brings together a team of experienced physicians and nurses who
combine knowledge in all areas of wound management. These specialists
manage non-healing wounds, a major problem facing many with poor
circulation or diabetes.
Lifestyle, environment and nutritional
status play an important role in the body’s ability to heal.
Each patient undergoes an assessment based on these factors to
determine a personalized plan of care. Individualized treatment
plans encourage the healing process while allowing patients the
comfort of healing at home. Treatments prescribed by The Wound
Center are likely to cure the non-healing wound of the average
patient in six to eight weeks.
Patients who are referred to The Wound Center often suffer from
a variety of conditions including:
- Lymphedema (which involves chronic swelling of the lower extremities)
- Diabetes
- Vascular conditions, including poor circulation
- Traumatic wounds
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma and lupus
- Cardiac conditions, neuro-muscular conditions and stroke
- Bone infections
- Malignancies
The Wound Center uses the latest modalities and technologies to
heal wounds. Human skin equivalents, growth factors, hydropolymers
and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) are just some of the treatments
used with success. Human skin equivalents are made from harvested
cells and applied directly to venous ulcers and non-healing diabetic
ulcers. Growth Factor enhances the healing process in a chronic
non-healing wound. HBOT provides systemic oxygen to the open wound
at a very high pressure, furthering the body's ability to speed
the healing process.
The Wound Center is located on the first floor
of the Clara Maass Continuing Care Center. This setting provides
patients with easy access to all the services of the hospital such
as laboratory testing, radiological and imaging studies, and vascular
studies, if needed.
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The Wound Center offers transportation to patients
who have no other means of getting to the Center. To qualify, you
must be able to get to your curb and climb in and out of a minivan.
If you are a candidate for transportation, please make arrangements
when calling for an appointment.
The Wound Center staff, comprised of an expert comprehensive medical
team, provides patients with the most effective treatment, resulting
in faster healing.
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The Wound Center at Clara Maass is open from
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday.
For more information about
how The Wound Center at Clara Maass can help you, please call 973.844.4070.
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