The Wound Care Center team includes John McEachern, M.D., FACS, Susan Lovelle, M.D., FACS, Jan Schroeder, ARNP, and full-time wound care center coordinator Joyce Armbrust, ARNP, who has extensive experience in wound care.

“This Center has been a long-time plan of Newton Medical Center because of the number of persons living among us with treatable wounds,” said Newton Medical Center Vice President for Physician Services Val Gleason, in announcing the Center’s opening.

“For example,” Gleason said, “NMC’s service area encompasses about 60,000 people. Of that number, we estimate about 1,200 are diabetics with treatable wounds. This number does not include persons with other types of treatable wounds stemming from problems with venous insufficiency or obesity.”

These include people who suffer from open wounds that do not heal, wounds from an old injury that have not healed, weeping lower legs, and pressure ulcerations or bed sores.

Patients seen at the Wound Center benefit from specialized and individualized treatment plans based on the type of wound and its underlying cause. Patients will have appropriate nutritional, infectious, and vascular evaluations, with subsequent wound care being provided by the Center’s team.

“Our plan also includes wound care for inpatients at Newton Medical Center,” said Dr. McEachern, who serves as the Center’s medical director. “This program can help transition inpatient evaluation to outpatient management for continuity of care.”

To schedule an appointment or to learn more about the Wound Care Center at NMC, call 316-804-6161.