WoundCentrics, a full-service wound care management company, uses Wound Care University in New Braunfels, Texas exclusively to train its employed and contracted physicians, advanced practice providers and allied health professionals for hyperbaric medicine training. The Wound Care University 40-hour Introduction to Hyperbaric Medicine course is an Undersea Hyperbaric Medicine Society approved course and offers CME to the physicians that complete the course and pass the exam.
“Our company offers all our providers the clinical training needed to achieve their advanced wound care and hyperbaric medicine certifications. Wound Care University provides the quality education and professional advancement that our company is seeking to offer our clinicians,” stated Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer of Wound Centrics.
“The basic and advanced wound care training provided by Wound Care University builds the foundation needed for the WoundCentrics clinical providers to become proficient at the various therapies, modalities and treatments required to be an advanced wound care professional in our industry,” according to Marcus Gitterle M.D, Chief Medical Officer of WoundCentrics.
“We train our providers in advanced wound care to be able to work in the acute hospital inpatient setting, and in the post-acute setting, including the rehabilitation hospitals, long term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing home facilities, and long-term care,” Oertli explained. “The expanding sub-specialty of wound care is evolving rapidly, and our providers are trained to be up to date and proficient on the latest evidenced-based treatments of wound healing,” explained Dr. Gitterle.
WoundCentrics was founded 12 years ago in San Antonio, Texas. The company has grown to have a large national footprint, operating in ten states and in more than ninety-two facilities. Through its physician employment group, Physician’s Unity, it employs sixty-four providers and more than seventy-five other clinical, administrative, and support staff.
In 2019, Wound Care University was founded to provide state-of-the-art wound care training and development for wound care clinicians, including an Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) approved course for new hyperbaric clinicians (www.woundcareuniversity.com). To learn more about WoundCentrics visit the website at www.woundcentrics.com.