Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygen

Hyperbaric Oxygen and Wound Healing

Chandler Regional Medical Center’s Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygen Center Receives Accreditation with Distinction From The Undersea And Hyperbaric Medical Society

CHANDLER, Ariz. – The Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygen Center at Chandler Regional Medical Center, a member of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), has received accreditation with distinction from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS).

Chandler Regional Medical Center is the ONLY hospital in Arizona, and one of 25 in the nation, to receive this honor, which signifies the highest quality of hyperbaric medical care.

Since 2001, the UHMS has had a clinical hyperbaric medicine facility accreditation program. Accredited facilities must demonstrate their commitment to patient care, as well as facility safety, by voluntarily participating in this program. When a hyperbaric oxygen center is invited to participate in the accreditation survey process, the UHMS sends a team of experts to the facility to examine staffing and training, equipment installation, operation and maintenance, facility and patient safety, and standards of care.

“Continuing to participate in this voluntary process reaffirms our commitment to provide the community with the highest quality wound care available,” said Brian Paterick, M.D., medical director of the Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygen Center. “For referring physicians, it means we are available when they have patients with chronic, slow healing wounds. For patients, it means our dedicated team of medical professionals is able to provide consultations and treatment while focusing on patient safety and satisfaction.”

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers surround a patient with 100 percent oxygen at a higher than normal atmospheric pressure, similar to what a deep sea diver experiences. Sessions, or dives, last anywhere from two to two-and-a-half hours. Each session increases the amount of dissolved oxygen in the patient’s blood, allowing it to go directly to the wound and stimulate healing.

The team at Chandler Regional Medical Center continues to enhance patient care by reducing the time it takes to heal a wound. The Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Oxygen Center also offers hospital-based outpatient wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, as well as disease management and diabetes care.

The center is located at 1875 West Frye Rd. in Chandler. For more information, or to schedule a tour, please call 480.728.3701 or visit http://www.chandlerregional.org/.

About Chandler Regional Medical Center
Chandler Regional Medical Center is a 225-bed, acute-care, non-for-profit provider of emergency care, maternal child services, cardiovascular services, wound healing, cancer treatment, diabetes treatment, and diagnostic services.  It is located at 475 S. Dobson Road (corner of Dobson Road and Frye Road) in Chandler.  For more information, please visit http://www.chandlerregional.org/ or call 480.728.3000.

About Catholic Healthcare West
Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is the eighth largest hospital system in the nation and one of the largest not-for-profit hospital providers in the West. Founded in 1986, the CHW network of more than 8,500 physicians and approximately 50,000 employees serve a population spanning 22 million people at 43 hospitals across California, Arizona, and Nevada.  CHW is committed to delivering compassionate, high-quality, affordable healthcare services with special attention to the poor and underserved. In fiscal year 2008, CHW provided nearly $967 million in community benefit and free care for the poor. CHW facilities in Arizona include Chandler Regional Medical Center, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and Barrow Neurological Institute, CHW Urgent Cares in Ahwatukee, Gilbert and Queen Creek, Warner Outpatient Surgery and the Arizona Orthopedic Surgical Hospital.  For more information, please visit our Website at http://www.chwhealth.org/.

About the UHMS
The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) was formed in 1967.  It is an international nonprofit association serving some 2,000 physicians, scientists, associates and nurses from more than 50 countries in the fields of hyperbaric and dive medicine. The UHMS is an important source of scientific and medical information pertaining to hyperbaric medicine involving hyperbaric oxygen therapy and diving through its bimonthly, peer-reviewed journal, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, symposia, workshops, books and other publications. It organizes an annual scientific meeting at different U.S. and international locations to permit review of the latest in research and treatment and to promote the highest standards of practice. For more information, please visit http://www.uhms.org/.

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