The Wound Healing Center
Located directly across from to Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, in Willingboro, New Jersey, the Wound Healing Center offers specialized care for chronic and non-healing wounds—treating about 3,000 patients per year. Its physicians, nurses and other staff members provide a high level of expertise, aimed at healing problem wounds. Most patients appreciate healing of such conditions within a few weeks of care at the center.
Full-Service Wound Care
The staff treats all kinds of skin lesions and breakdowns, including ulcer and pressure wounds. Using the latest technology and products to help heal external wounds and skin breakdowns, the center works to return health and function to compromised sites, and thus to patients. While doing so, the team also helps to address underlying diseases and conditions contributing to the wound process and to any recurrent wounds at specific locations. Atrophied or deficient circulation, blood vessels or nerves may contribute to chronic wounds, and the team assists patient and referring provider in steps for managing these factors.
The team establishes a partnership with the patient's doctor and with referring institutions. Serving as an outpatient clinic, the Wound Healing Center cares for independent and ambulatory patients as well as those transported for treatment from rehabilitation sites or long-term or skilled care facilities. The staff also works with patients in the hospital.
Importantly, the center helps a segment of patients who require more intensive wound-healing intervention, by providing hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) through the Lourdes Center for Hyperbaric Medicine, located across the street, in the Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County. Candidates for HBOT are generally patients who have otherwise intractable or more difficult-to-heal wounds due to the nature of the wounds or related conditions or both, and patients who have more acute or urgent wound-healing needs due to the serious nature of the wounds or interaction of the wound with other conditions.
Highly Accomplished Staff
The medical staff of the Wound Healing Center comprises five surgeons and one podiatrist. The center has rotating physician staffing from these specialists five days per week. Its nurses and other staff members are also specialized in care of patients with chronic wounds.
Vascular surgeon Samuel H. Wasser, MD, FACS, directs the center medically. Dr. Wasser was the first vascular surgeon in South Jersey to provide endovascular laser treatment (EVLT), which is an alternative to vein stripping when treating varicose veins. The nonsurgical technique helps patients avoid ulceration and other conditions that result form blood pooling that takes place in varicose veins.
For more information or to make an appointment, please call 609-835-5240.
Location: Situated directly across from Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County (get directions), in Willingboro, New Jersey, the center has ample free parking. It is within a short drive of the New Jersey Turnpike, Interstate 295, Route 130 and Burlington-Bristol Bridge. The center is located on the first floor of the Professional Building East, on Hospital Drive, directly across from the Emergency Department entrance to Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, in Willingboro, New Jersey. Patient will find easy wheelchair access to the office suite. Please contact the center to arrange medical transport needed from curbside at the East Building or from home.
Frequently asked questions
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