If you’ve been living with an open wound, chances are you may feel it will never heal. The Wound and Vascular Center at Des Peres Hospital can offer help and hope.

A Comprehensive Approach
The Wound and Vascular Center is a multidisciplinary outpatient center, which brings numerous specialties together to provide coordinated care to patients in St. Louis with chronic, non-healing wounds. Chronic wounds are those which have not shown significant improvement in four weeks or complete healing in eight weeks.

Personal Care
Recognizing that every person has unique needs, each patient's treatment plan is managed by a physician and registered nurse who is trained in wound management.

Program Benefits
Comprehensive wound care can result in earlier recovery, reduced hospitalization and prevention of prolonged or permanent disability.

The Wound and Vascular Center serves St. Louis area patients and promotes optimum care through a team approach and by utilizing the expertise of specialists in a wide range of medical fields:

• Internal Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Infectious Disease
• General Surgery
• Podiatry
• Vascular Surgery
• Dietetics
• Diabetic Education
• Nursing
  

Who is a Candidate?
The Wound and Vascular Center at Des Peres Hospital provides diabetic and surgical wound treatment in St. Louis to patients with chronic or non-healing wounds, such as:

• Diabetic foot ulcers
• Pressure ulcers
• Venous leg ulcers
• Arterial leg ulcers
• Failed surgical flap closure of amputation sites
  

Contact Us
Patients may be referred through their physician or by contacting the Center directly at (314) 966-9358. Care will be coordinated with your primary care physician.

Complimentary transportation to the Wound and Vascular Center in St. Louis is available in select zip codes. Certain restrictions apply.