One of two centers nationwide to earn honor for 16 consecutive years
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — When you have a wound that will not heal, you need expert, compassionate care you can trust.
Physicians, leaders and clinicians at HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital are proud to announce that their Wound Healing Center has been awarded the prestigious Center of Distinction award by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92%.
The Wound Healing Center has won this award every year since it opened in 2010, making them one of only two other Healogics centers nationwide to have won this award for 16 consecutive years.
Dr. Jeff Brummer, Medical Director of St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center, expressed his appreciation for the center winning the Center of Distinction award repeatedly over the last 16 years. “It truly takes extraordinary expertise and commitment to achieve this high degree of healing combined with compassion year after year. It is a testament to the exceptional care and dedication demonstrated by the physicians, providers and nurses associated with St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center,” Dr. Brummer said.
The HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital Wound Healing Center is a member of the Healogics network of nearly 600 wound care centers and offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds.
Advanced wound care modalities provided by St. Anthony’s wound care experts include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bioengineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings, and growth factor therapies. St. Anthony’s Wound Healing Center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, an advanced treatment that can help accelerate healing in select chronic wounds by increasing oxygen delivery to affected tissue.
The 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 a provider 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 HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital
HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital, Effingham, celebrating 150 years of serving the Effingham community, is part of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a nonprofit Catholic health care ministry founded in 1875. Dedicated to our Mission to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through high-quality Franciscan health care, HSHS clinicians provide exceptional care centered on the whole person. Based in Springfield, Illinois, HSHS employs nearly 11,000 colleagues who provide care in 13 acute-care, children’s and critical-access hospitals and home health and hospice programs in Central and Southern Illinois and Eastern Wisconsin. HSHS is aligned with more than 1,000 primary and specialty physicians and advanced practitioners through its owned affiliates HSHS Medical Group and Prairie Cardiovascular and its partnership with Prevea Health. For more information about HSHS, visit hshs.org.