Wound Healing Care Center

Our team is dedicated to your healing and comfort.

Gritman Medical Center offers the most advanced and comprehensive wound healing. Whether your wound is acute or chronic, our team is here to help you heal and get back to normal life.

Our staff is nationally or state-licensed and certified. Many of our wound specialists hold advanced certifications. Our wound healing rate exceeds 91%. Wounds are healed within an average of 30 days. In 2016, Healogics recognized our Wound Healing Center as a Center of Excellence.

We Offer the Following Treatments

  • Debridement (cleaning and removal of damaged tissue)
  • Advanced dressings
  • Medicines and support services for chronic, complex wounds
  • Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for qualifying wounds to stimulate damaged tissues, which helps heal chronic wounds and skin grafts and repair bone and tissue damage
  • Non-invasive vascular testing

When to Seek Wound Treatment

Ask your doctor about visiting our Wound Healing Center in these scenarios:

  • You have a wound that hasn’t healed in 30 days (commonly experienced by people with diabetes).
  • You have a sore with increasing pain, redness, swelling, foul odor or a change in color.
  • You have a surgical wound that has become infected.

A Network of Healing

Gritman Wound Healing Center is a member of the Healogics network. Healogics is the nation’s wound healing expert. Last year, more than 300,000 patients received advanced wound care through a nationwide network of over 600 wound care centers. The Healogics team is made up of almost 3,000 employees, 4,000 affiliated physicians and a Healogics specialty physician practice group of nearly 300. In addition to the company’s network of outpatient centers, Healogics partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 80 partner hospitals.

It is wonderful watching somebody go from having this horrible wound when they come in to leaving through our door with a smile on their face because they are back to the life they had before the injury and they are so grateful. It is so gratifying for us to know that we helped them do that.Sharon Cofre, Director of Healogic Wound Care
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Director of Healogic Wound Care, Sharon Cofre, standing next to a monoplace hyperbaric oxygen chamber used for wound healing.

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Diabetes and Wound Care

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Caring for your skin when you have diabetes

Try these tips to help prevent dryness, injury, and other skin problems.

  • Use warm water. Avoid hot water, which can dry out the skin.
  • Use a bath soap that has a moisturizer added. Use soap only as needed (on your feet, underarms, and groin). Avoid deodorant soaps and antibacterial soaps. They may dry your skin.
  • If your skin is dry, don’t use bubble baths. Use bath oil instead.
  • Use a moisturizer after you bathe. But don’t put it on skin folds and between your toes.
  • Use a home humidifier during cold weather and in dry climates

 

Chris Hauck Receives the Gritman Way Award

Chris Hauck is a hyperbaric tech/safety coordinator in our Wound Healing team and the 2019 recipient of the Gritman Way Award, which is annually given to a team member who exemplifies Gritman Medical Center’s values: Compassion, Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.
“We want our organization to be one where the values do not just hang from the walls on a sign, but actually walk the halls and bring life to compassionate and respectful care. This is what Chris has always done all the years I have interacted with him here at Gritman. Chris leads by example and is a great mentor for the rest of us and what it looks like to live the Gritman values each and every day.” — Chief Experience Officer Scott Nelson

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Patient Experiences

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The Healing Touch

Gritman’s Wound Healing Center helps Pullman woman recover from a life-threatening wound

For more than two years, Pullman resident Mary Muench received treatment at a medical facility in Spokane for a wound — and for two years the ailment only worsened.

Read Mary’s Experience

'Everyone was in my corner'

He nearly lost a limb, but Gritman helped him learn to live with diabetes and beat expectations

Two days was all it took for a callus on Silas Robbins’ foot to progress from a minor wound to a raging infection. By the time the Moscow resident sought care at Gritman Medical Center’s Emergency Department, doctors were fearful the foot would need to be amputated.

Read Silas’s Experience

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