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Wound Care
Sparrow Health System offers a comprehensive wound care program for your inpatients and outpatients. Patients of all ages benefit from the wound service. Our team
of healthcare professionals provides medical and nursing care for acute and chronic wounds.
Sparrow Outpatient Wound Care Service
Medical Management Options
If your Sparrow credentialing status is active, courtesy, or provisional, you may choose to manage your patient's wound care.
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At your request, our multidisciplinary team of physicians specializing in state-of-the-art wound management will assume the care of
your patient's wound. Our goal is to keep you informed of your patient's progress at each visit.
If you do not hold Sparrow credentials, our service is available to your patients. Outpatient Wound Center physicians will manage
your patient's wound with you. You can expect regular updates of your patient's progress and the treatment plan.
How to Refer a Patient
- Choose your medical management option and indicate your request on the referral.
- Complete a Referral Form and fax the form to 517.484.3337
The referral form is in (pdf) format. Click here if you need to download Adobe Reader.
- Please have your staff call 517.364.3504 to schedule an appointment for the patient. After hours, please leave a message on our voice mail.
Scope of our practice includes:
- Adult and Pediatric Services
- Burns
- Surgical Dehiscence
- Trauma
- Diabetic Ulcers
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- Venous Ulcers
- Arterial Ulcers
- Pressure Ulcers
- Any Other Tissue Trauma
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Medical services available to patients in our clinic:
- Podiatry
- General surgery
- Plastic surgery
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- Vascular surgery
- Internal medicine
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Methods of wound care include, but are not limited to:
- Pulsatile wound irrigation
- Maggot Debridement Therapy
- Debridement
- Compression Therapy
- Vacuum Assisted Closure
- Platelet Derived Growth Factor
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- Bioengineered Skin Grafting
- On Site Orthotist
- Nursing Care
- Advanced Dressing Technology
- Individualized Patient Education
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Sparrow Inpatient Wound Care Service
The nursing staff of the Inpatient Wound Team has advanced training for nursing care of chronic and acute wounds. Patients with complex and/or unstable wounds would benefit from an Inpatient Wound Service consult.
The Wound Service will complete a wound assessment, develop and implement a plan of care,
provide patient teaching and collaborate with discharge planners and other service providers.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will consult on patients with Enterostomal Site needs and patients who are at risk for developing
a pressure ulcer.
Please consult the wound team on your adult or pediatric inpatients with challenging or unstable wounds.
Simply write an order on your patient's chart and the wound team will consult within 24 hours.
We look forward to serving you and your patients. Our multidisciplinary approach to wound management is based on
state-of-the-art treatment that offers excellent outcomes and a high rate of patient satisfaction.
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