MITCHELL, SD (Aug. 26, 2022) – Avera Queen of Peace Hospital is honored to announce that its Wound Care & Hyperbaric Treatment Center is a recipient of RestorixHealth’s highest achievement, the Wound Center of Excellence Award. Recipients of this prestigious award meet or exceed national wound care quality benchmarks over a set period of time.
The Wound Center of Excellence Award distinguishes centers that have demonstrated exceptional success by meeting or exceeding clinical and operational benchmarks in several categories, including healing outcomes, assessment and care processes and patient safety, along with a patient satisfaction rate of 96 percent or higher.
“This achievement reaffirms our mission through our partnership with RestorixHealth to improve the health and quality of life for those in our community with wounds,” said Carly Herrold, RN, WCC, the program director for the center. “We are proud to be recognized for the outstanding care that the Wound Care & Hyperbaric Treatment Center staff provides its patients every day.”
The wound center is dedicated to optimizing outcomes and preventing lower limb loss in those patients with non-healing wounds. The approach to wound care is aggressive and comprehensive, coordinating traditional and advanced therapies and techniques that are proven to reduce healing time and improve healing rates.
The center is staffed with a multidisciplinary team of physicians along with nurses and technicians with advanced training in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Integrating a team of wound care professionals optimizes patient care, while offering the most advanced healing options.
The Wound Care & Hyperbaric Treatment Center is located inside Avera Queen of Peace Hospital at 525 Foster St. in Mitchell. For more information, please call (605) 995-2510.