The SSM Health Wound Center in Mt. Vernon has received two awards.
They are the RestorixHealth’s Clinical Distinction and Patient Satisfaction Awards. Recipients of the awards meet or exceed national quality benchmarks over a set period.
The Director of the Wound Center, Pamela Ford, says they are not only proud to be recognized for their dedication to healing, but also their dedication to patient satisfaction.
RestorixHealths’s Clinical Distinction award recognizes those centers that have demonstrated success by meeting or exceeding patient safety goals along with an above 90-percent healing rate while the Patient Satisfaction award recognizes those centers that have met or achieved a patient satisfaction score of 96-percent or high.
SSM Health Wound Center in Mt. Vernon is dedicated to optimizing outcomes and preventing lower limb loss in those patients with non-healing wounds. The approach to wound care is aggressive and comprehensive, coordinating traditional and advanced therapies and techniques that are proven to reduce healing time and improvement healing rates.
The center is staffed with a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, and technicians with advanced training in wound care.
The center is located at 4106 South Water Tower Place in Mt. Vernon and is open Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. For more information you may call 618-899-3710.
