Wound clinic recognized

Community Memorial Hospital’s advanced wound clinic in Cloquet has received the 2018 Center of Distinction award from Healogics, the nation’s largest wound care provider. The clinic is for individuals with wounds that have not responded to traditional therapies. To receive the Center of Distinction recognition the clinic was required to meet or exceed the following criteria: 92 percent patient satisfaction, 92 percent healing rate; less than a 16-percent outlier rate (wounds that haven’t healed in 14 weeks); and achieve a median days-to-heal of fewer than 28 days.