Wound Care Rehabilitation

      The Recovery Care Program at Harbour Health and Hawthorn Health offers extensive management of chronic wounds.   Management is provided for wounds resulting from conditions such as:

• Diabetes
• Venous stasis
• Ischemia
• Pressure sores
• Collagen vascular disease

      The interdisciplinary team; — including the attending physician, nursing staff, physical and/or occupational therapists, and dietician; — assesses and implements interventions that promote wound healing.  The plans include:

• Physical and occupational therapy (for as many as six days a week)
• IV antibiotics
• Pressure relief and reduction in bed and chairs
• Compression treatments
• Wound debridement
• Pain control
• Whirlpool or pulse lavage treatments
• Electric stimulation
• Nutritional intervention and education
• Nursing education/instruction of wound management
• Wound Vac