Wound Care
Advanced, Evidence-Based Wound Management
The Wound Care Center offers you and your patients access to state-of-the-art outpatient clinical wound care and hyperbaric medicine. We specialize in advanced wound care for wounds that haven't healed in 30 days, using a variety of clinical treatments, therapies and support services to treat chronic wounds. Our physician-driven, multi-disciplinary approach to outpatient wound care has a superior success rate in facilitating the healing process.
The Wound Care Center is affiliated with Healogics, the nation's pioneer and leader in wound management services. Healogics has opened more than 600 Wound Care Centers across the country over the last fifteen years, introducing treatment plans that incorporate innovative techniques that focus on not just treating the wound's symptoms, but healing the wound entirely by taking a disease management approach to eliminate the cause.
Next Steps
Find a Doctor
Patients who need specialized wound care may be referred to the Center by their local physician. Self-referrals are also accepted. To find out more, call 606.451.3820.
Visit Us
Get directions to our Wound Care Center or call us with any questions or concerns about your wound.
353 Bogle Street, Suite A
Somerset, KY 42503
Get Answers
Have questions about Wound Care at Lake Cumberland? View our FAQ below to find answers!
You Care For Your Patients - We Care For Their Wound
As a referring physician, podiatrist, or other health care professional you are the most important member of your patient’s wound care management team, which includes physician specialists, certified or specialty-trained wound care nurses, and other wound care experts. Upon referral, you patient meet with our staff for a consultation. Partnering with you, the team develops a treatment plan for your patient. Information about your patient’s progress will be provided to you on an ongoing basis. Treatments such as wound dressings, debridement, compression therapy, prescriptive growth factors, bio-engineered skin grafting, edema management, and non-invasive vascular assessment are among the techniques utilized at the Center that have proven results in accelerating the healing of difficult wounds.
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Patients with wounds, ostomies, and incontinence can stay close to home when seeking care, rather than travel to another city for treatment. It's incredibly rewarding to know that I've been able to help patients from our community regain their lives and enjoy the things they thought were out of reach.
Mandy Lynch, BSN, RN, CWOCN
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Certified Nurse
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) helps the body’s oxygen-dependent, wound-healing mechanisms function more efficiently. While enclosed in a chamber at greater-than-normal atmospheric pressure, patients breathe pure oxygen, saturating their blood plasma and allowing it to carry from 15 to 20 times the normal amount of healing oxygen to the body’s tissues. Up to 18 percent of wound care patients may require HBOT treatments provided by the Center’s physicians, who are specialty-trained in hyperbaric medicine, and our highly-trained clinical hyperbaric technicians and staff.
Approved indications for HBOT which are currently reimbursed by Medicare and other insurance providers include:
- Diabetic ulcer of the lower extremities
- Soft tissue radionecrosis and osteoradionecrosis
- Chronic refractory osteomyelitis
- Compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Actinomycosis
- Crush injury/acute traumatic peripheral ischemia
- Progressive necrotizing infection (necrotizing fasciitis)
- Acute peripheral arterial insufficiency
REAL PATIENTS. REAL STORIES
JACOB'S STORY
In September 2020, Jacob Hearld, a 25-year-old Pulaski County resident, was referred to Lake Cumberland Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Medicine for post-surgery wound treatment. Through a life-changing medical condition, Jacob has been able to find appropriate healing both physically and mentally at the Wound Care Center.
