St. Ann's Community Launches New Outpatient Wound Healing Center in Irondequoit

St. Ann’s Community in an alliance with Rochester General Health System (RGHS), launched the Rochester General Wound Healing Center, an outpatient facility dedicated to providing advanced care to patients with complex or hard-to-heal wounds. The Wound Healing Center opened on November 20th and is located on the Irondequoit campus of St. Ann’s Community, 1500 Portland Ave., across the street from Rochester General Hospital. It is the first center located in eastern Monroe County, dramatically improving access for area patients.

The Center’s services may be ideal for any patient with a wound that has not begun to heal within two weeks or is not completely healed in four weeks. Many of the wounds to be treated at the Center are the result of chronic conditions including diabetes and circulatory issues, or have resulted from a surgical incision, burn, or a pressure-related sore.

Advanced treatments at the Wound Healing Center include the use of compression bandages, total contact casting to reduce pressure on wounds of the feet, negative pressure therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which relies upon a sealed hyperbaric chamber to treat wounds by delivering additional oxygen to the wound site.

At 42 inches in diameter, the facility’s twin HBOT units are the most spacious hyperbaric chambers now in use in the Rochester region. The increased capacity in these state-of-the-art chambers will enhance patient comfort during hyperbaric treatment sessions.

The Wound Healing Center is medically managed by Kim Petrone, MD, St. Ann’s Medical Director. Dr. Petrone a certified wound specialist, is also AMA board certified in Geriatric Medicine and Internal Medicine. Leanne Mathis, RN is the program director and along with bringing her 22 years of nursing experience while at St. Ann’s, is also a certified wound specialist.

“We are pleased to offer healing services for people throughout the greater Rochester area who need this kind of specialized care,” said Kim Petrone, MD. “This collaboration with Rochester General brings many much-needed benefits to our community.”

A physician referral is not needed to make an appointment at the Wound Healing Center. Patients can call 922-HEAL (4325) to schedule an appointment today, or visit www.stannscommunity.com for more information.

St. Ann’s Community is one of Rochester’s largest private employers with over 1,200 employees, and provides a varied range of services and care levels designed to meet the individual needs of older adults. St. Ann’s, a non-profit that is Caring for the Most Important People on Earth, serves seniors with two licensed, accredited and certified skilled nursing facilities, medical and social adult day programs, independent retirement housing, transitional care, assisted living, enhanced living, specialized dementia care, geriatric outpatient primary care practice, hospice care (in partnership with two local hospice agencies) and wound healing services across two campuses in the Greater Rochester area.

For more information about St. Ann’s Community please call 585-697-6000 or visit www.stannscommunity.com. The St. Ann’s Community Irondequoit campus is located at 1500 Portland Avenue in Rochester, directly across the street from Rochester General Hospital.