MetroWest Medical Center’s Advanced Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center celebrates its second anniversary with an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony as well as a free foot-screening clinic for the community.
“Reaching this two-year mark since the establishment of the Wound Care Center is very significant. It demonstrates our achievements of a steadily growing center with new and healed patients every week,” says John Whitlock, Chief Executive Officer of MetroWest Medical Center.
The center is at the forefront of wound care, demonstrated by incorporating advanced technology such as skin substitutes, compression therapy, wound vacuums (wound vacs), and hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy. These therapies do a combination of stimulate regeneration of tissues, facilitate optimal environments for cellular growth and assist an individual’s physiological needs for the best wound care outcome, and preservation of limbs.
The most effective treatment capability we have onboard is our HBO therapy chambers. This specialized treatment is an important adjunctive therapy for a number of approved indications, including but not limited to:
- Diabetic foot ulcer management
- Chronic osteomyelitis
- Delayed radiation injury
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Preparation or preservation of compromised skin grafts/flaps
In 2022, the center saw 1,119 patients. This number more than doubled in 2023 to 2,464 visits. On top of this, we have had more than 700 completed HBO dives.
The center has recently added a new healing bell in which patients will ring letting the staff know they have successfully completed their treatment and can start their new chapter in life.
For more information on the Advanced Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center, visit here.
About MetroWest Medical Center
MetroWest Medical Center is a teaching community health care system serving the greater MetroWest region of Massachusetts. For more than 125 years, it provides services in three locations: Framingham Union Hospital, a full-service acute care hospital in Framingham; Leonard Morse Hospital, a behavioral health facility in Natick; and MetroWest Wellness Center, an outpatient care center of MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham. MetroWest Medical Center is committed to meeting the health care needs of the area residents by providing advanced medicine and personalized care, right in the local community. In 2023, Healthgrades® named MetroWest Medical Center one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention Award™, which puts MetroWest Medical Center in the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for Coronary Intervention. In 2024, MetroWest Medical Center was awarded a 5-Star Recipient for Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism by Healthgrades®. To learn more, visit www.mwmc.com.