| TOP STORIES AROUND THE COUNTY |
NARH Offers Q&A Session on Hyperbaric Wound Care03:47PM / Monday, September 19, 2011
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Adams Regional Hospital will host a question-and-answer session with the wound-care experts from the Wound Healing Center of the Berkshires on Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
The free event takes place at the VNA & Hospice of Northern Berkshire Community Room. Pie and coffee will be served. Registration is requested by calling 413-664-5142.
Dr. Fred Landes, center Director Kelly Morse and hyperbaric oxygen technician Gladys Conklin will take questions on wounds resulting from radiation side effects, lymphedema, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and injuryThey will also discuss new state-of-the-art techniques used to heal wounds including hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
The Wound Healing Center opened in 2009 and has been recognized as a top-performing center among all those operated in collaboration with National Healing Corp. The Wound Center boasts a “heal rate” of 96 percent, meaning that 96 percent of patients’ wounds are healed within nine visits.
Landes is a board-certified emergency medical physician and is the Wound Healing Center’s medical director. He received his training from the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University, in New York City.
Morse is a registered nurse and has worked in the health-care field for 32 years. Conklin is a licensed practical nurse.
|
|
Advertise on iBerkshires.com
|
