Center Recognized for Healing Wounds and Changing Lives

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May 3, 2010 News Releases
Seven Rivers Rehab & Wound Center has received the Center of Distinction Award in recognition of high patient satisfaction rates, exceptional healing results and outstanding clinical outcomes. The award was presented by Diversified Clinical Services - the world’s largest wound care management company.

“We are honored,” said Program Director Justin Everts, MSN, CHRNC. “Our outstanding clinical outcomes demonstrate a team effort towards excellence in patient care.”

The team at SRRWC provides expert care for non-healing wounds. Patients are treated using an interdisciplinary approach which may include vascular evaluation, debridement, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, laboratory evaluation, physical therapy, nutritional management, pain management, diabetic education, nuclear medicine and radiology.  

SRRWC chose to partner with Diversified Clinical Services to ensure quality in providing specialized treatments to the communities of Citrus, Levy and surrounding counties. In these communities, many are suffering from chronic and non-healing wounds - a serious disorder that can lead to amputation of limbs and dramatically impaired quality of life. Associated with inadequate circulation, poorly functioning veins, and immobility, non-healing wounds occur most frequently in the elderly and in people with diabetes and other diseases - populations that are sharply rising as the nation ages and chronic diseases increase.

Non-healing wounds of the diabetic foot are considered one of the most significant complications of diabetes, representing a major worldwide medical, social, and economic burden that greatly affects patient quality of life. Almost 24 million Americans - one in every 12 - are diabetic and the disease is causing widespread disability and death at an epidemic pace, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those with diabetes, 6.5 million are estimated to suffer with chronic or non-healing wounds.

“Working with Diversified Clinical Services has allowed us to heal patients in our community, getting them back to living happy, healthy lives.”  

To learn more about wound care and hyperbaric medicine at Seven Rivers Rehab & Wound Center, call 352.563.2807.
 
About Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center
Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center, a 128-bed general, medical/surgical acute care facility serving Citrus, Levy and South Marion Counties, opened its doors in 1978. Seven Rivers Regional is fully accredited by The Joint Commission and has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ as a Certified Primary Stroke Center. The medical center is a recipient of the HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™ (2010) ranking it among the top 5% in the nation for patient safety, is recognized with a Gold Sustained Performance Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) for its success with Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) and received a Performance Improvement Award from Florida Medical Quality Assurance, Inc. In addition, Seven Rivers Regional has been honored as one of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals (1999, 2001) and Top 100 Hospital for Stroke (2000). Seven Rivers Regional can be found on the World Wide Web at www.srrmc.com.
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