Ottumwa Regional Health Center Wound Center Recognized for Clinical Excellence in Patient Satisfaction and Wound Healing Rates
April 14, 2025
OTTUMWA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER WOUND CENTER
Recognized for Clinical Excellence in
Patient Satisfaction and Wound Healing Rates
Ottumwa, IA (April 14, 2025) – Physicians, leaders and clinicians at Ottumwa Regional Health Center are proud to announce that Ottumwa Regional Wound Center has been awarded the prestigious Center of Distinction award by Healogics®, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for twelve consecutive months, including a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92 percent. This recognition is a testament to the exceptional care and dedication demonstrated by the Center’s physicians, leaders, and clinicians.
“We are pleased to be able to provide advanced high quality wound care services to the southeastern Iowa community and look forward to the expansion of our program in the future,” said, Michael Covert, Interim CEO for Ottumwa Regional Health Center.
The Ottumwa Regional Wound 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.
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. Ottumwa Regional Wound Center also offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen to help accelerate wound healing.
“Receiving this recognition for the ninth consecutive year is a powerful testament to our team’s unwavering commitment to excellence in wound care. Our focus on compassionate, evidence-based treatment continues to drive outstanding outcomes and improve the quality of life for our patients.
We are honored to be recognized once again and remain dedicated to serving our community with the highest standard of care”, said Jessica Hicks, DO, Medical Director, Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center, for Ottumwa Regional Health Center.
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About Ottumwa Regional Health Center (ORHC)
For more than 125 years, Ottumwa Regional Health Center has served the community of Ottumwa, Wapello County, and the citizens of Southeast Iowa. We are a regional health center providing a wide range of health services, including emergency medicine, critical care services, medical/surgical, acute rehabilitation, obstetrics, and pediatrics, as well as specialty services such as cardiac catheterization, diagnostic and therapeutic radiological services, wound care, pain clinic, sleep lab, pathology, and more. ORHC’s mission is making communities healthier, and it is dedicated to being a place where people choose to come for healthcare, physicians want to practice, and employees want to work.
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 better outcomes and a better way to provide care.