Calumet Medical Center offers Wound Care Clinic
Specialized care for wounds now available to rural communities
01 / 28 / 2009
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Maria Heim, Media Relations
Affinity Health System
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CHILTON, Wis. - Wound care can be a significant challenge, regardless of whether the cause is from injury or from chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease or vascular disease. Because more and more patients are being managed in an outpatient setting, wound care can be a major burden to patients and their caregivers. The Wound Care Clinic at Calumet Medical Center is specifically designed to help with some of these challenges.
Patients with venous stasis ulcers, post-surgical wounds, diabetic ulcers, and other chronic wounds are evaluated and cared for by Dr. Peter Janu, a general and vascular surgeon, along with a team of specially trained, certified wound care nurses. The Wound Care Clinic is located in the emergency department at Calumet Medical Center and is available by appointment only.
"In an outpatient setting, we can help tailor a wound management program specific to each individual patient and help take care of some of the day-to-day maintenance,” Dr. Janu said. The Wound Clinic takes a comprehensive to healing, including nutrition, pain management and counseling for the patient and caregiver. “This type of focused treatment can, in many cases, speed the healing, relieve some of the stress associated with the care and reduce risk of infection," Janu said.
For more information about the Wound Care Clinic at Calumet Medical Center, call Dr. Janu’s office at 920-849-7734.
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For the Editor:
Affinity Health System, a Catholic mission-oriented regional health care network, is a partnership of Ministry Health Care and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. Affinity Health System is the Fox Valley’s third largest employer, according to the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and is nationally listed among the top 50 hospitals for quality and efficiency (Thomson Reuters, Modern Healthcare). For eight consecutive years, Affinity Health System has been named to the SDI Health (formerly Verispan) Integrated Health Network Top 100, an annual assessment of the 100 most highly integrated health care networks in the nation – Affinity ranks no. 29 in the 2009 report. Both St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton and Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh rank among the top 1 percent among hospitals nationwide in terms of quality and efficiency, as determined by the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select practice National Quality Award. Network Health Plan has achieved Excellent accreditation status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the highest possible level. It is ranked 31st in the nation, according to the U.S. News and World Report/NCQA Best Health Plans in America listing. Members of Affinity include Mercy Medical Center and Mercy Health Foundation, Oshkosh; St. Elizabeth Hospital and the St. Elizabeth Hospital Community Foundation, Appleton; Affinity Medical Group, a regional network of 22 family practice and specialty clinics – including two fully operational Medical Home models – in 14 communities; Calumet Medical Center, Chilton; Network Health Plan, Menasha; and Affinity Occupational Health.