Watson Clinic’s Wound Care department provides specialized treatments for chronic or slow-healing wounds. When left untreated or neglected, these wounds can lead to chronic disease, infection, poor circulation or even amputation.
Appointments with our Wound Care specialists are available by physician referral only. Specialists from other Clinic departments - including family medicine, internal medicine, podiatry, oncology-hematology, radiology, plastic & reconstructive surgery and infectious diseases – frequently refer their patients to our team of three board-certified wound care experts.
These referrals are provided in situations that warrant a more specialized approach by our wound care specialists, including:
- Wounds, cuts or burns that haven’t begun to heal within two weeks
- Signs of troubling infection
- Patients who suffer from factors that can complicate the healing process, such as diabetes or poor circulation
- Foot ulcers resulting from diabetes
- Ulcers or other wounds resulting from radiation therapy
- Repeated infections of the bone
- Collaborations with interventional radiologists during revascularization efforts
Our Wound Care physicians will recommend the course of treatment best suited to each patient’s condition, which may include compression wrappings, antibiotics, topical wound medications, customized dressings, or the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
The Watson Clinic Wound Care department features the expertise of Dr. Yeneneh Desta, who treats patients from Watson Clinic Main, Bartow Regional Medical Center and South Florida Baptist Hospital (referrals: 863-680-7190), Dr. Fernando Loret de Mola, who offers wound care services from the Lakeland Regional Health Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine department at their Grasslands campus (referrals: 863-284-1700), and Dr. Tri M. Pham, who treats wound care patients from both Watson Clinic Main and Bartow Regional Medicine Center (referrals: 863-680-7190).