Patients in the western Upper Peninsula have new options for wound care and other medical conditions treatable with hyperbaric medicine, because the
Dickinson County Healthcare System has opened a new clinic.
The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine celebrated a ribbon cutting this summer, opening its doors at 1707 South Stephenson Avenue in Iron Mountain, on the existing health system's campus.
Among the services it offers are new CT scanning and two new hyperbaric medicine chambers, which can help deliver oxygen to patients undergoing wound treatment, speeding healing.
It fits into an existing wound care program offered by Dickinson Rehabilitative Services, and will be staffed by selected local physicians trained in hyperbaric medicine. Treatments with the chamber are intensive, lasting for hours at a time, and often extending to six weeks, which left area patients in need of hyperbaric treatment either going without, or traveling hours away to receive care.
The center also will house the Dickinson Occupational Clinic in its new location.
Writer: Sam Eggleston
Source: Dickinson County Healthcare System
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