Wound Healing Center at VGH

Everyone has heard that time heals all wounds, but the truth of the matter is that without advanced therapies, some wounds can take years and even decades to heal. The Wound Healing Center at Valley General Hospital offers the community state-of-the-art specialized wound healing care.

With the rising rate of diabetes, there is a great need for specialized care centers that can treat ulcers associated with the disease as well as help patients with other skin, bone and tissue conditions. To establish the center, VGH has partnered with National Healing Corporation, which manages other wound healing centers nationwide.

The center’s doctors and clinical staff are skilled in the latest therapeutic methods of wound management. Patients will be treated with state-of-the-art technology from having their progress charted through digital photographs to, in some cases, being treated in the center’s hyperbaric oxygen chambers.

Location:
Wound Healing Center at VGH is located on the far east side of our campus.

Hours of Operation: 
Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m

Making an Appointment:
Talk to your physician about a referral. Patients covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most insurance plans may self-refer to VGH. However, one of the center’s missions is to build relationships with patients’ primary care physicians.

For more information, please contact 360-863-4655

FAQs – Wound Healing Center at VGH

What should I expect at my first appointment?
Using a team approach, the specially trained physicians, nurses and other health care providers at the Wound Healing Center will assess your general health before creating a treatment plan that best suits you. The assessment may include blood tests, imaging and other diagnostic testing to evaluate your health.

What is and will I need hyperbaric treatments?
For some patients this advance treatment modality is needed to help heal their wound. This highly specialized treatment works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure. This increases the amount of oxygen in the patient’s blood and, in the case of wounds, allows read blood cells to pass more easily through the plasma into the wound to heal it form the inside out. Diabetic foot wounds are an excellent example of wounds that may benefit most from this type of treatment.

Hyperbaric treatments are for approximately 10 percent of those that suffer wound healing issues. The majority of our patients will not need hyperbaric, but for those that do, this state-of-the-art technology is a huge benefit to the community. Patients needing hyperbaric to treat their wound need daily treatments. Having the technology close to home is a great relief to those needing the treatment.

Who treats my wound?
The Wound Healing Center at VGH works with area providers to staff our outpatient clinic. The provider then communicates and works directly with your primary care physicians, keeping them updated on your treatment. Also at our clinic full-time are specially trained nurses and hyperbaric technicians. Below is a complete listing of physicians currently seeing patients:

Wound Healing Physicians
Jonathan Borjeson, DO – General Surgery – Medical Director
John Okemah, MD – Internal Medicine
Randy Anderson, DPM – Podiatry