{"id":24514,"date":"2016-06-11T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=24514"},"modified":"2023-11-30T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:19:21","slug":"wound-care-achieves-national-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/wound-care-achieves-national-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wound Care Achieves National Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Wound Care Achieves National Accreditation<\/h1>\t\t<time>June 11, 2016<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_c3f4c4563ae68b9f90f66e41644b4352\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Patients seeking treatment for chronically non-healing wounds caused by some conditions such as diabetes or compromised surgical flaps have a high-quality choice for receiving treatment at a nationally accredited center.<br>\u00a0\u00a0<br>Samaritan Health Services announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/find-a-location\/samaritan-wound-vein-hyperbaric-medicine-albany\/\">Samaritan Wound Care &amp; Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Services<\/a> has been accredited as a Comprehensive Center by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.<br>\u00a0\u00a0<br>The therapy involves use of pure oxygen in a pressurized clear acrylic chamber to promote wound healing. The technology has been used for decades, starting with the military to help scuba divers recover from resurfacing too quickly and pilots who were flying at too high of an altitude. Patients receiving care at the accredited center are carefully screened by a trained medical professional who also administers the therapy and are onsite at all times during each treatment.<br>\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about this accreditation,\u201d said Cynthia Dye, clinic director. \u201cWe are a young program having opened 14 months ago. The accreditation is a testament to the quality and care patients receive, as well as the staff at our clinic.\u201d<br>\u00a0\u00a0<br>To earn the elite designation, an organization must meet criteria for staffing, training and facility infrastructure and protocols for care. The Albany-based wound clinic is one of only five in Oregon and Washington to receive this accreditation.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u201cOften times our patients have tried many first-line treatments to help their ailing wounds,\u201d explained <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/latta-priscilla-1639154974\/\">Dr. Priscilla Latta<\/a>, the clinic\u2019s medical director. \u201cWith as few as 30 treatments in our pressurized chamber using pure oxygen our patient\u2019s wounds may be healed, helping improve their overall quality of life.\u201d<br>\u00a0\u00a0<br>Located in the Samaritan Medical and Diagnostics Center in Albany, Oregon, the clinic performs careful evaluation and review of each patient to determine their candidacy for hyperbaric oxygen therapy.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/close-up-doctor-with-hands-on-stethoscope-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/close-up-doctor-with-hands-on-stethoscope-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/close-up-doctor-with-hands-on-stethoscope-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/close-up-doctor-with-hands-on-stethoscope-CO-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about our newly accredited center that uses oxygen to help healing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":false,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-topics":[],"news-types":[272],"services":[268],"specialty":[],"class_list":["post-24514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-types-news","services-wound-ostomy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=24514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}