Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine

Washington Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine 
39141 Civic Center Drive, Suite 106 
Fremont, CA 94538 
510.248.1520 
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Expert Care for Nonhealing Wounds

Coping with chronic, nonhealing wounds can be both frustrating and time consuming, but expert care is available to help improve healing and your quality of life. At the Washington Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine, our professional staff is highly trained in the specialized comprehensive care of problem wounds, using the most up-to-date approaches in the science of wound care.

Your Physician is Part of Our Team

The treatment you receive at the Wound Healing Center is designed to complement the care your own physician provides, ensuring that your health care team is always working together to provide the treatment that’s right for you. Your physician participates in developing your treatment plan and is kept informed of your progress every step of the way. Your team at the Wound Healing Center includes physicians with advanced wound care training, nurses trained in the care of chronic wounds, and experienced technicians and staff.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

To help in your healing, you may be referred for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a simple but effective treatment in which you breathe pure oxygen inside a pressurized chamber. The chamber has clear sides through which you can see your surroundings, and is in a comfortable treatment room equipped with TV and videos. The therapy quickly and safely delivers high concentrations of oxygen to your bloodstream, which helps increase your body’s own natural wound-healing abilities. This treatment modality is effective in not only treating specific chronic and difficult wound such as diabetic foot wound, wounds associated with bone infections, but also other difficult conditions like consequences of radiation injury, acute hearing loss etc.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Indications:

• Acute carbon monoxide intoxication
• Preparation and preservation of compromised skin grafts
• Chronic refractory osteomyelitis, unresponsive to conventional medical and surgical treatment
• Osteoradionecrosis as an adjunct to conventional treatment
• Soft tissue radionecrosis as an adjunct to conventional treatment

Diabetic wounds of the lower extremities if all of these apply:

1. You have Type 1 or 2 diabetes and have a lower extremity wound that is due to diabetes.
2. You have a wound classified as Wagner Grade III or higher.
3. You have failed an adequate course of standard wound therapy.

Wound Treatment is a Team Effort

Our wound care team is made up of doctors, nurses, therapists and other medical professionals using advanced care treatments to help wounds heal so that you can feel better and get back to enjoying life. In addition, the clinic provides access to physical therapists, dietitians, pain management specialists and diabetes educators. 

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Because every patient’s wound is unique, you will have a thorough diagnostic exam to identify the type of wound you have and its underlying causes. A program specifically tailored to your needs will be started based on the most effective approach, which may include:

• Vascular evaluation
• Debridement
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Laboratory evaluation
• Infectious disease management
• Physical therapy
• Nutritional management
• Pain management
• Diabetic education
• Nuclear medicine
• Radiology
• Lymphedema Clinic

Our staff will set up regular appointments for your visits to the Wound Care Center and give you all of the information you need to take care of your wound at home between visits. Keeping your appointments and following wound care instructions are essential to healing your wound, so let us know whenever you have questions about your treatment plan.

We also coordinate care by arranging services such as home health support and necessary medical supplies, including dressing materials.

Ostomy Clinc 

Washington Health’s ostomy clinic offers education and support services aimed at improving the quality of life for patients who have had ostomy surgery. The goal is to help patients adapt to life with their ostomies and return to normal activities as soon as possible. The clinic is staffed by nurses specially trained in the care and management of an ostomy. Services include: Pre and post-operative counseling on stoma care and management, Pre-op stoma site marking, Full and impartial information about all ostomy supplies and products available, Support and information for families and caregivers, Management of skin conditions due to ill-fitted appliances or common skin complications post-surgery, Yearly follow-up, Fistula care and management, Management of tubes