HSHS St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year and 15 years of being named a Center of Distinction by Healogics. Over the past decade and a half, its dedicated team has healed at least 10,949 wounds. First row, left to right: Sheri Barnett, APRN; Stacey Tebbe, APRN; Dr. Jason McAllaster; Dr. Thomas Heischmidt; Dr. Jeffrey Brummer, Medical Director; Dr. Lisa Kowalski; Dr. Sarah Kate Couch; and Katie Rincker, APRN. Second row, left to right: Anthony Powers, St. Anthony’s Chief Administrative Officer; Cindy Einhorn, RN; Katie Brummer, RN; Pam Westfall, Patient Navigator; Jessica Dye-Antrim, RN; Tory Buhnerkempe, RN, Clinic Nurse Manager; Jen Lohman, LPN, HBO Safety Director; Patsy Lilly, RN; Kelly Schmidt, RN; and Ashley Dillingham, Program Director. Not pictured: Sarah Williams, RN.
Effingham, IL-(Effingham Radio)- When you have a wound that will not heal, you need expert, compassionate care.
HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital’s Wound Healing Center has once again been awarded the prestigious Center of Distinction award by Healogics®, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Wound Healing Center has won this award every year since it opened in 2010, making them one of only two other Healogics centers nationwide to have won this award for 15 consecutive years.
The award was given for the Wound Healing Center’s outstanding clinical results for their patients this past year, including a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92%.
Dr. Jeff Brummer, Medical Director of St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center, expressed his appreciation for the center winning the Center of Distinction award repeatedly over the last 15 years. “It takes extraordinary expertise and commitment to achieve this high degree of care year after year. It is a testament to the exceptional care and dedication demonstrated by the physicians, providers and staff associated with St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center,” Dr. Brummer said.
Fifteen Years of Healing
The Wound Healing Center is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Over the past decade and a half, its dedicated team has healed at least 10,949 wounds, restoring health, comfort and quality of life to thousands of patients.
Ashley Dillingham, Director of the Wound Healing Center, shared, “We always appreciate being recognized for the work that we do, but what is more important is what it represents – all those we have helped heal from their wounds and the relationships we have built with them during their healing journey,” she said. “This is the place you want to be if you have a wound that just won’t heal. Our team genuinely care about their patients and through our advanced training and treatments, we are passionate about helping people heal and making a difference in their lives.”
St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center is a member of the Healogics network of over 600 Wound Care Centers® and offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds.
Advanced wound care modalities provided by St. Anthony’s wound care experts include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100% oxygen to help accelerate wound healing.
The Wound Healing Center cares for people that have wounds that have not begun to heal in four weeks or have not completely healed in six weeks. Patients can be referred by a provider or can refer themselves by calling St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center to make an appointment at 217-347-3565.
For more information about HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, visit stanthonyshospital.org.
About HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital
HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Effingham, celebrating 150 years of serving the Effingham community, is part of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a nonprofit Catholic health care ministry founded in 1875. Dedicated to our Mission to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through high-quality Franciscan health care, HSHS clinicians provide exceptional care centered on the whole person. Based in Springfield, Illinois, HSHS colleagues provide care in 13 acute-care, children’s and critical access hospitals and home health and hospice programs in Central and Southern Illinois and Eastern Wisconsin. HSHS is aligned with primary and specialty physicians and advanced practitioners through its owned affiliates HSHS Medical Group and Prairie Cardiovascular, its partnership with Prevea Health, and with many other providers serving on medical staffs. For more information about HSHS, visit hshs.org.
About Healogics
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the nation’s wound healing expert. Last year, over 300,000 patients received advanced wound care through a network of over 600 Wound Care Centers®. Healogics also partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 60 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative offers peer-reviewed research and advanced analytics in the pursuit of better outcomes and a better way to provide care.
Comments