Comprehensive Wound Care: One Call Does It All

The Comprehensive Wound Care Center focuses on the evaluation and treatment of chronic wounds using advanced wound care technologies, as well as traditional medical and surgical therapies. The center is located in the same suite as the Louise Gartner Center for Hyperbaric Medicine.

Types of Wounds Treated:
The types of wounds that are treated include, but are not limited to, abdominal stomas, pressure ulcers, chronic wounds, diabetic ulcers, venous ulcers, arterial ulcers and other hard-to-heal wounds.

Specialized Services:
The Baylor Dallas Comprehensive Wound Care Center provides a broad array of specialized services, including:

• Enterostomal therapy
• Doppler evaluation
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Transcutaneous oxygen monitoring
• Wound care and debridement
• Negative pressure therapy (Wound VAC)
• Physical therapy
• Nutrition counseling
• Diabetes counseling
• Pain management

Enterostomal therapy is available at Baylor Medical Center at Garland, Baylor Medical Center at Frisco, Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine, Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie, Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano, Baylor Medical Center at Irving, Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation and Baylor Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital.

The Comprehensive Wound Care Center provides patients specialized wound care services in a dedicated environment. Research has shown that comprehensive wound care programs can reduce the risk of infection or other complications, which also may decrease the length of a hospital stay.

Multidisciplinary Team
The multidisciplinary team of the Comprehensive Wound Care Center consists of physicians, nurses, technicians, physical and occupational therapists, nutritionists, care coordinators, and prosthetics.

Inpatient wound care is provided by nurses with special training in wound care, who follow you throughout your stay, guiding the wound care, serving as a resource for the attending physician and staff nurse, providing staff and patient teaching, and participating in discharge planning.

For inpatients scheduled to continue their care as an outpatient, the wound care nurse providing inpatient care makes arrangements with the nurse providing outpatient care. The outpatient nurse visits with you within 48 hours of discharge to promote continuity of care and provide a contact resource upon discharge.

A case manager works with you and your family to help ensure the treatment plan is clearly understood. The case manager stays in contact with you between visits, including follow-up calls, and collaboration with home health providers or nursing home, as well as facilitates communication between the wound care center physician and the referring physician.

Appointments and Contact Information
We schedule appointments by doctor's referral. The center will accept patients on either an inpatient or outpatient basis.

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
Barnett Tower, Suite 210
Dallas, TX 75246
1-800-4BAYLOR