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Posted: April 14th, 2017
NRMC Comprehensive Wound Healing Services Receives National Award
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center has been recognized with a national award for continued excellence in wound healing, the Robert A. Warriner III Center of Excellence award, and NRMC is in the top 7% nationally. The Center was awarded this prestigious honor by Healogics, the nation’s leading and largest wound care management company. The award is named for Dr. Warriner, a pioneer in wound care and the former Chief Medical Officer for Healogics.
NRMC has achieved patient satisfaction rates higher than 92 percent, a healing rate higher than 91 percent in less than 31 median days along with several other quality standards for two years in a row. The Center of Excellence award is given to Wound Care Centers® in the Healogics network that have met the highest level of quality standards for a minimum of two consecutive years.
“Since opening the Center in 2015, our physicians and associates have helped to save limbs and lives, and they do so with compassion, commitment, and a high level of expertise,” explained Kirk Soileau, Chief Executive Officer. “For them to receive this outstanding award is truly inspirational to our entire organization. I want to thank our doctors and associates for the excellent patient care they are providing our community each and every day.”
NRMC Wound Care Services is a member of the Healogics network of nearly 800 Centers, with access to benchmarking data and proven experience treating approximately 2.5 million chronic wounds. NRMC offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time. Some of the leading-edge treatments offered at NRMC include negative pressure wound therapy, debridement, application of cellular-based tissue or skin substitutes to the wound, offloading or total contact casts and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
About Healogics, Inc.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. Healogics and its affiliated companies manage nearly 800 Wound Care Centers® in the nation and saw over 300,000 new patients in 2016 through a connected network of partner hospitals and Wound Care Centers, academic medical centers, and other postâ€acute sites. Healogics utilizes an evidenceâ€based systematic approach to chronic wound healing to treat an underserved and growing patient population. A fund managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a private investment firm, is the majority shareholder of Healogics. For more information, please visit www.healogics.com.