Clinch Valley Health’s Advanced Wound Center Recognized with National Award for Clinical Excellence

Clinch Valley Health physicians, leaders and clinicians gathered today to celebrate the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Clinical Excellence Award, which was given to Clinch Valley Health’s Advanced Wound Center. This Center has scored in the top 10 percent of eligible Healogics® Wound Care Centers® on the Clinical Excellence measure, which is the Comprehensive Healing Rate weighted by wound mix. The Center was awarded this prestigious honor by Healogics, the nation's largest provider of advanced wound care services. This award is named for Dr. Robert A. Warriner III, a pioneer in wound care and the former Chief Medical Officer for Healogics.

“We are very proud that our wound center has been recognized as one of the highest performing centers across the country in healing very difficult wounds that many patients have dealt with in some cases for very long periods of time,” said Peter Mulkey, CEO, Clinch Valley Health.

The Advanced Wound Center at Clinch Valley Medical Center is a member of the Healogics network of over 600 Wound Care Centers®  and offers highly specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time.

Advanced wound care modalities provided by our wound care experts include negative pressure wound therapy, total contact casting, bio-engineered tissues, biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. The Center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen to help progress the healing of the wound.

“I am grateful to the staff who had worked diligently and been dedicated to excellence and keeping the highest level of wound care standard,” said Jamal I. Sahyouni, MD, CWSP, Clinch Valley Medical Center Advanced Wound Center, Medical Director. “This is a great achievement, and I am very proud to announce this award to our communities in Southwest Virginia. It means our patients have the highest standard of wound care close to home.  I am honored to serve the patients in our area.”

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About Clinch Valley Health

For more than 80 years, Clinch Valley Health has been an integral part of the lives of people throughout southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia. Our 175-bed acute care hospital offers a range of inpatient and outpatient services including medical and radiation oncology services, specialty care for the heart, lungs and vascular system, cardiac catheterization lab, 24-hour emergency services, physical rehabilitation, sleep studies, skilled nursing, pediatrics & obstetrics, an advanced wound care center, and advanced diagnostics. For more information, please visit ClinchValleyHealth.com.

About Healogics

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the nation’s wound healing expert. Last year over 300,000 patients received advanced wound care through a network of over 600 Wound Care Centers. Healogics also partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 60 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative offers peer-reviewed research and advanced analytics in the pursuit of not only better outcomes, but a better way to provide care.