Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital – Denton combines medical quality with advanced technology to deliver compassionate, patient-centered wound care mana​gement to our guests. We offer diagnosis, treatment, and management of complex non-healing wounds through a wide range of approaches, with specialty focus on limb preservation and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. 

A non healing wound, also called a chronic wound, is a sore that has not started to heal within two weeks. These wounds may be caused by a variety of factors, including:

• Bone infections (osteomyelitis)
• Burns
• Decubitus or pressure ulcers
• Diabetes
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Gangrene
• Necrotizing fasciitis
• Obesity
• Peripheral arterial disease and other vascular diseases
• Radiation exposure
• Skin irritations
• Surgery or trauma
• Venous stasis

The team at the Comprehensive Wound Center treats wounds affected by a variety of disorders using evidence-based, advanced adjunctive wound therapies. A multidisciplinary team, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy and wound specialists, podiatric foot and ankle surgeons, and specialty nurses, works closely with you and your physician to develop the best approach to your wound healing issue.

The specialists on the medical staff in our Comprehensive Wound Center are experts at a wide range of treatment approaches and services, including:

• Comprehensive wound evaluation and an individualized treatment plan
• Compression dressings
• Doppler evaluation and vascular testing
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Limb​ preservation​
• Manufactured (bio-engineered) tissue graft application
• Negative pressure wound therapy (Wound vacuum assisted closure or VAC)
• Transcutaneous oxygen monitoring
• Wound care and debridement

To learn more about the Comprehensive Wound Center at Baylor Scott & White Heart – Denton, please call 940.220.0600.