Wound Care Patient Referrals
Known for its 91 percent overall healing rate, the Wound Therapy Clinic at Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital in Atlanta provides specialized wound care for adult patients of all ages (16 years and older). Treatment at the Wesley Woods Wound Therapy Clinic is provided specific to each case and treatments are provided for wounds associated with vascular insufficiency, burns, cancer, diabetes, non-healing surgical sites and pressure ulcers, among others.
The Wound Therapy Clinic is located on the second floor of the Geriatric hospital next to the LTAC unit. The Clinic’s staff includes two physicians and a podiatrist, supported by four WOCNs (Wound and Ostomy Certified Nurses), and two MAs, who collaborate with patient primary care physicians in the wound treatment process. Referring physicians and primary care physicians will receive wound progress reports for and/or pictures of their patients on an ongoing basis (if requested).
The Wound Therapy Clinic is led by medical director, Doris J. Armour, MD, MBA, FACP, who is a board-certified internist with 21 years of primary care experience, eight years of experience in rehabilitation medicine and with the Wesley Woods Wound Therapy Clinic since 2005. She is joined by colleagues David Burke, MD, MA, chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, and Mohammad Sharif, DPM, a board-certified podiatrist who has been in practice since 2003 and with the Wound Clinic since 2007.
For referrals, contact the clinic manager, Marion Waugh, at 404-728-6538.
Wound Therapy Clinic Services
The Wound Therapy Clinic provides treatment for the following types of patient wounds:
Commonly seen wounds:
• Venous stasis ulcers
• Arterial (ischemic) ulcers
• Diabetic ulcers
• Pressure ulcers
Post-Op Ostomy (surgically created openings):
• Ileostomy
• Urostomy
• Colostomy
Traumatic wounds
Non-healing surgical wounds
Other less common wounds, including wounds associated with:
• Sickle cell disease
• Pyoderma gangrenosum
• Graft-vs-host disease
• Raynaud’s phenomenon
• Vasculitis
