Will serve patients one clinic day a week at the center while continuing her practice
EFFINGHAM— Dr. Lisa Kowalski, general surgeon, recently joined St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center’s care team to see patients one clinic a week at the center. The hospital’s award-winning Wound Healing Center offers leading-edge treatments including hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), negative pressure therapies, bioengineered tissues and biosynthetics to reintroduce the body’s innate ability to heal.
She joins the other medical providers who serve patients on a weekly basis at the center: Dr. Jeff Brummer, medical director; Dr. Jason McAllaster, general surgery; Dr. Thomas Heischmidt, internal medicine; Katie Rincker, APRN; and Stacey Tebbe, APRN. These providers serve alongside the specially trained care team of the Wound Healing Center: Ashley Dillingham, director; Tory Buhnerkempe, RN, CWCA, clinic nurse manager; Jeremiah Roberts, RN, HBO safety director; Cindy Einhorn, RN; Sarah Williams, RN; Sara White, RN; Patsy Lilly, RN, CWCA; Jennifer Lohman, LPN; and Pam Westfall, patient navigator.
By serving one day a week at the Wound Healing Center, a member of the Healogics™ network, Dr. Kowalski will collaborate with a network of academic medical centers, hospitals and thousands of professionals committed to advancing wound healing by creating, sharing, and activating wound prevention and care expertise.
Chronic wounds affect more than eight million people in the U.S. and the incidence is rising fueled by an aging population and increasing rates of diseases and conditions such as diabetes, obesity and the late effects of radiation therapy.
HSHS St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center cares for people that have wounds that have not begun to heal in four weeks or have not completely healed in six weeks. Patients can be referred by their family doctors or can refer themselves by calling St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center to make an appointment at 217-347-3565.
For more information about HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, visit stanthonyshospital.org.
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About Hospital Sisters Health System
Hospital Sisters Health System’s (HSHS) mission is to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through our high-quality Franciscan health care ministry. HSHS provides state-of-the-art health care to our patients and is dedicated to serving all people, especially the most vulnerable, at each of our physician practices and 15 local hospitals in two states – Illinois (Breese, Decatur, Effingham, Greenville, Highland, Litchfield, O’Fallon, Shelbyville and Springfield) and Wisconsin (Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Oconto Falls, Sheboygan and two in Green Bay). HSHS is sponsored by Hospital Sisters Ministries, and Hospital Sisters of St. Francis is the founding institute. For more information about HSHS, visit www.hshs.org. For more information about Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, visit www.hospitalsisters.org.
About Healogics
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the nation’s wound healing expert. Last year over 300,000 patients received advanced wound care through a network of over 600 Wound Care Centers. Healogics also partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 60 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative offers peer-reviewed research and advanced analytics in the pursuit of not only better outcomes, but a better way to provide care.