HAVERHILL BRADFORD MA, SPECIALIZED WOUND CARE

The Whittier Wound Clinic at Bradford:
Specialized treatment options and individualized care to patients with non-healing wounds.

MISSION: To provide patient-focused, scientifically and technologically advanced comprehensive wound management services through an interdisciplinary approach to wound care.

GOAL: To facilitate efficient and effective wound healing whenever possible with an ultimate goal of maximizing the quality of life and functional performance of individuals with wounds.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

• Provide a specialized outpatient program that effectively and efficiently manages patient with non-healing wounds.
• Provide a multi-disciplinary approach towards pain management for the wound care patient.
• Coordinate services across settings to include specialty medical, home health, nutritional services and other services as appropriate.
• Provide education which assists patients and caregivers to gain knowledge and skills to meet the patient’s ongoing needs as relates to skin and wound management.
• Individualize patient services to promote maximum functional recovery.

WOUND CENTER TEAM: Coordinates treatment plans with the patient’s primary care physician who will continue to manage the overall medical care.

Kim Peters, RN, CWS
Kim received her Nursing degree from New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, New Hampshire. Ms Peters has 7 years of recent wound care experience, is wound certified by the American Academy of Wound Management and was the 2006 Visiting Nurses Association of American’s Clinician of the Year. Kim coordinates wound care in both outpatient and inpatient services as well as home care

Paul A. Liguori, M.D. - Medical Director/Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Dr. Liguori earned a Bachelor of Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. Dr. Liguori completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation and a Master of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Liguori is board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is a consulting physician at the Wound Healing Center at Anna Jacques Hospital. He is involved in training of residents in Rehabilitation Medicine as Assistant Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

ADVANCED TREATMENTS:

Recent advances in wound care allow clinicians to choose from some very beneficial treatments, including E-STIM, V.A.C. dressings, and MIST ultrasound. V.A.C.® Therapy is clinically proven to promote granulation, wound contraction and excellent drainage evacuation. MIST™ Ultrasound and is a newer modality that assists wound debridement using non-contact ultrasound administered with a saline mist. These treatments in combination appear to provide an excellent option for treatment.

V.A.C.® System is a registered trademark of KCI (Kinetics Concepts, Inc.) San Antonio, TX

V.A.C.® Therapy is short for Vacuum Assisted Closure. It is the controlled application of sub-atmospheric pressure to a wound using a therapy unit to intermittently or continuously convey negative pressure to a specialized wound dressing to help promote wound healing. The wound dressing is a resilient, open-cell foam surface dressing that assists tissue granulation and is sealed with an adhesive drape that contains the subatmospheric pressure at the wound site. Additionally, the V.A.C.® Therapy System helps direct drainage to a specially designed canister that reduces the risk of exposure to exudate fluids and infectious materials. V.A.C.® Therapy is prescribed for a variety of chronic and acute wound types, such as pressure ulcers, diabetic wounds, abdominal wounds, partial-thickness burns, trauma wounds, flaps and grafts.

V.A.C.® Therapy Benefits:
• Helps promote wound healing
• Assists tissue granulation in wounds
• May allow for delayed primary closure
• Minimizes suturing through fascia
• Assists in wound stabilization via splinting effect
• Collects and quantifies fluid


MIST Ultrasound is a registered trademark of Cellentran Inc., Eden Prairie MN

MIST THERAPY® SYSTEM is an innovative ultrasound device that utilizes ultrasonic sound waves to heal wounds.

MIST Therapy is an advanced wound care modality that promotes healing through cellular stimulation while removing bacteria from the wound.

In addition, MIST Therapy System is a painless noncontact ultrasound device that heals wounds without the traditional ultrasound requirement of direct contact with the skin.

MIST Therapy creates ultrasound waves that produce and propel a gentle mist of sterile saline to the wound bed. This resulting mist of saline improves the transfer of ultrasound from the device to the wound bed without contact or pain to the patient.

The noncontact MIST Therapy is unique because the mist replaces the coupling gel that is required for all other forms of ultrasound such as fetal monitoring, sports medicine, and physical therapy.

Promotes wound healing through wound cleansing and maintenance debridement by the removal of yellow slough, fibrin, tissue exudates and bacteria.


ACCEPTED INSURANCES:

Aetna • BCBS • Cigna • Evercare • GIC • Harvard Pilgrm • Medicare • Medicaid • Tufts • Worker's Compensation

HOURS OF OPERATION:

The Wound Center Clinic is offered Monday-Friday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm.

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