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Nash Wound Care Center
Contact Information
Dr. Stuart Todd
Medical Director
Dr. Doug Boyette
Dr. Frederick Kroncke
Dr. Guy Maclang
Dr. Eduardo Marsigli
Mack Moore
Program Director
mamoore@nhcs.org
For general information, call:
252-451-HEAL
When a wound fails to heal, serious complications can occur. Problem wounds are much more common among those with diabetes and heart disease, as well as any condition that affects circulation and inhibits the skin’s ability to heal itself.
The Nash Wound Care Center is an outpatient program that works in conjunction with the patient’s primary care physician. The specially trained staff at the Nash Wound Care Center is dedicated to providing comprehensive treatment using the most technologically advanced wound care therapy.
The center provides not only valuable education to patients and caregivers to assist with wound treatment, but it also provides Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as an additional treatment for wounds that meet specific criteria.
A hyperbaric oxygen chamber is an enclosed chamber into which oxygen is pumped. The oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber is at a higher concentration and pressure than oxygen normally inhaled. Hyperbaric oxygen chambers aren’t new — in fact they’ve been around since the 1940s, when they were used to treat decompression sickness in divers.
Because patients in a hyperbaric chamber are inhaling pure oxygen, this increase in oxygen in the blood stimulates the growth of blood vessels, which is an absolute necessity in helping skin to heal and form healthy tissue again.
The Nash Wound Care Center is located on the campus of Nash Health Care Systems just behind the hospital. At the center, a specialized group of physicians and health care workers will tailor an individual treatment plan for each patient in order to help their wound to heal properly and avoid complications. The Nash Wound Care Center serves as a complement — not a replacement — to care patients already receive through their primary care physician.
Dr. Stuart Todd serves as the medical director of the program. Todd, who received his medical training at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, first joined the Nash Health Care Systems medical staff in 1979. He served as president of the NHCS medical staff in 1995.