UPMC Wound Healing Services in Central Pa.

UPMC Wound and Hyperbaric Centers in Central Pa. offer comprehensive wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to treat chronic wounds and aid in healing. Our wound care experts offer a multidisciplinary approach, advanced and personalized treatment options, and years of experience.  People with nonhealing and chronic wounds now have a place to turn.

What Are Wound and Hyperbaric Services? 

The goal of our services is to provide individualized care to patients who are suffering from chronic or difficult-to-heal wounds. Our multidisciplinary approach combines the expertise of internal medicine and infectious disease specialists with vascular, general, and plastic surgeons, as well as podiatrists.

What conditions do you treat? 

Wound care

Our expert physicians, nurses, and technicians are highly trained to provide the latest, most effective wound care for a variety of conditions, including:

• Burns.
• Chronic infections.
• Diabetic foot ulcers.
• Nonhealing surgical wounds.
• Pressure ulcers.
• Venous stasis ulcers (nonhealing wounds that usually occur in the leg).
• Wounds associated with serious infections.
• Wounds caused by arterial disease.
• Wounds from radiation injury.

Ostomy care

Our team also has years of specialized experience in peristomal care and assisting with appliance complications from colostomies, ileostomies, and urostomies.

These experts can help with common challenges, including:

• Assistance with finding the correct supplies.
• Education on caring for your ostomy.
• Resolving peristomal leaks and skin irritations.
• Support with adjusting to a new way of life.

Ostomy care services are offered in Carlisle, Hanover, Harrisburg, and Lancaster.

Who Are Wound and Hyperbaric Services For?

Many patients mistakenly believe that seeking treatment at a wound center is a last resort when all other treatment options have failed. But that's not true.

Because small wounds heal faster than large wounds, we encourage you to call us right away if you are experiencing certain symptoms or conditions, including:

• An incision or injury that won't heal.
• An injury caused by sustained pressure.
• A wound that has not improved after one month.
• A leg or foot ulcer resulting from poor circulation.

What Wound and Hyperbaric Procedures Do We Offer? 

When a serious wound has not healed normally or when traditional therapies have not helped, the experts at the UPMC Wound and Hyperbaric Centers can offer effective treatment options.

Using state-of-the-art equipment and drawing on the experience of specialists from many fields, treatments for nonhealing wounds include:

• Cellular tissue-based products.
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
• Limb preservation.
• Ostomy.
• Surgery.
• Telemedicine case conferences.
• Vacuum-assisted closure.
• Wound debridement (removal of tissue).

Why Choose Wound and Hyperbaric Services? 

The UPMC Wound Care Center is the only wound center in central Pennsylvania with two physicians who are board-certified in hyperbaric medicine: J. Paul Rogers, MD, and Yolanda Michetti, MD, who is also fellowship-trained in HBOT.

In addition:

• Any of our locations can see a new patient within five days.
• Healing outcomes are 20% higher than the national average.
• We have the largest concentration of certified hyperbaric registered nurses.
• Surgical wound patients will be seen following the assigned global surgical period (PDF).

Accreditations

The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) has accredited the following programs with "Distinction," which is the highest level of accreditation that the society grants:

• UPMC Wound and Hyperbaric Center at Community General (distinction received in 2016, 2020, and 2024).
• UPMC Wound and Hyperbaric Center at West Shore (distinction received in 2016, 2020, and 2024).
• UPMC Wound and Hyperbaric Center at Carlisle (distinction received in 2025).

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