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St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center offers a wound care and hyperbaric medicine program to help patients with chronic wounds. Program director Nikki Johnston answers common questions about our services. Q. What is the purpose of the St. Mary’s Wound Care and Hyper- of 82 percent. Patients who follow their treatment plan may heal within baric Medicine program? a matter of weeks. A. A person with a non-healing wound may benefit from our specialized care. Using advanced treatQ. Does each patient have a cusment methods you can’t get at tomized treatment plan? your primary doctor, we help to A. Our multidisciplinary team folheal these wounds quicker, potenlows nationally accepted stantially reducing the risk for disease dards for wound care. Individual or amputation. * treatment plans are developed based on each patient’s healthQ. Are there many people within care needs. The patient’s response the Enid community who have or to treatment is evaluated during are at risk of developing chronic, each visit. The treatment plan is hard-to-heal wounds? revised as needed based on the A. There are people in every comwound-healing progress. munity who have or are at risk for chronic, non-healing wounds. Q. How is the patient’s progress One of the major causes of these monitored? types of wounds is diabetes. Our A. At each visit, the patient’s program has been open for over wound is reassessed. The clinical 20 years and our patient base has information is entered into the prodoubled. We see approximately gram’s database so medical staff 150 patients on a weekly basis per can track the patient’s progress month. compared to clinical benchmarks for wound healing. Q. How do patients benefit Learn more at stmarysregional.com from the wound care program? A. Many of our patients begin with wounds so severe that they can’t even walk into our office. By the time they complete their treatment plan, * Individual results may vary. they can get back to enjoying the simple pleasures of everyday life. Q. What percentage of your patients heal? A. Because we provide comprehensive wound care treatment and have skilled physicians on staff, we have a comprehensive healing rate 12 | APRIL 2022 | ENID MONTHLY
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