Drake Center's Advanced Wound Care program can be the best solution in the region for individuals with wound conditions that are:

• healing too slowly
• worsening
• causing discomfort or pain 
• prompting a primary care physician to refer the patient to a specialist.

Two Locations

We offer two convenient locations: Drake Center main campus in Hartwell, and Holmes Hospital in Clifton near the University of Cincinnati campus.

We provide comprehensive care for inpatients and outpatients with non-healing wounds caused by:

• Ostomies
• Diabetes
• Venous and pressure ulcers
• Traumatic wounds and others
• Burns and reconstructive surgery
• Post-surgical complications
• Compromised skin grafts
• Ulcers caused by vasculitis and sickle cell anemia

Our Wound Care program is the only one of its kind in the country with a wound care-certified staff dedicated exclusively to wound care. Team members use innovative, evidence-based treatment protocols, allowing the program to achieve outcomes that surpass national benchmarks. These include: 

• 90% of inpatients experience wound volume reduction of 50% or better in four weeks (a recent clinical study indicated that a 50% reduction in 12 weeks is a good indicator of healing);
• Complete healing for 55% of patients with complex surgical/trauma wounds; and
• 60% few hospital-acquired pressure ulcers than the national average.

Greater Cincinnati's MD News, a magazine for local physicians and other medical professionals, featured the Advanced Wound Care Program in its January/February 2008 issue.

Program advantages include comprehensive therapies:

• Treatment options like bioengineered skin substitutes, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, negative pressure wound therapy and wound vacuum system, transcutaneous oxygen monitoring, electrical stimulation, pulsatile lavage and more
• Bariatric hyperbaric oxygen chambers to treat complex wounds for persons up to 700 pounds
• Partnerships with our physical therapy department to provide wheelchair fittings, helping to provide the right fit to wheelchairs to prevent pressure ulcers from forming
• State-of-the-art, Web-based system to track wound care outcomes and progress over time
• Participation in wound research to develop new treatments and best practices.

Team of experts 

Our Advanced Wound Care Program at Drake Center is the only one of its kind in the country whose staff is wound care-certified and dedicated entirely to wound care. Team members work with patients and their families to develop an individualized treatment plan. 

Anne Blevins, BSN, RN, WCC, WOCN, Wound Care Clinical Coordinator at Drake Center, was named 2009 Outstanding Researcher in Wound Care by the National Alliance of Wound Care (NAWC).

Lu Ann Reed, M.S.N., C.R.R.N., R.N.C., W.C.C., Clinical Manager of the Advanced Wound Care, was recognized by the National Alliance of Wound Care (NAWC) as its first-ever Outstanding Wound Care-Certified Nurse of the Year. She also received NAWC's first-ever Outstanding Research in Wound Care Award in 2007.    

In addition, Drake Center's Advanced Wound Care Program was selected a finalist for the Cincinnati Business Courier's Health Care Heroes Awards for 2008 in the "Innovator" category.

For more information on Drake Center's Advanced Wound Care program, call 513.418.2707 or 800.948.0003 (ext. 2707).