Calumet Medical Center offers Wound Care Clinic

Specialized care for wounds now available to rural communities

January 28, 2009

Chilton, Wis. - Wound care can be a significant challenge, regardless of whether the cause is from injury or from chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease or vascular disease. Because more and more patients are being managed in an outpatient setting, wound care can be a major burden to patients and their caregivers. The Wound Care Clinic at Calumet Medical Center is specifically designed to help with some of these challenges.

Patients with venous stasis ulcers, post-surgical wounds, diabetic ulcers, and other chronic wounds are evaluated and cared for by Dr. Peter Janu, a general and vascular surgeon, along with a team of specially trained, certified wound care nurses. The Wound Care Clinic is located in the emergency department at Calumet Medical Center and is available by appointment only.

"In an outpatient setting, we can help tailor a wound management program specific to each individual patient and help take care of some of the day-to-day maintenance,” Dr. Janu said. The Wound Clinic takes a comprehensive to healing, including nutrition, pain management and counseling for the patient and caregiver.  “This type of focused treatment can, in many cases, speed the healing, relieve some of the stress associated with the care and reduce risk of infection," Janu said.

For more information about the Wound Care Clinic at Calumet Medical Center, call Dr. Janu’s office at 920-849-7734.

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