National Healing, establishing wound healing centers of excellence for hospitals nationwide.

An industry leader in providing wound healing management for hospitals and turnkey hyperbaric oxygen services, National Healing Corporation accounts for 30 percent of the nation's managed and outsourced wound healing centers.

Chronic wounds affect 6.5 million patients in the U.S. in a growing epidemic fueled by an aging population and increasing rates of diabetes, obesity and cancer treatment side-effects which are often underlying causes.

The Joint Commission has awarded NHC the Disease-Specific Care Certification for Wound Care and the company’s Managed Wound Center Clinical Pathway^® healed 89 percent of chronic longtime wounds in 16 weeks with an average heal time of eight weeks. In 2010, more than half a million hyperbaric oxygen treatments will be performed at NHC managed wound centers.

A research partner with leading universities, NHC is at the forefront of wound care research participants in clinical trials and multi-center studies for the effectiveness of new therapies and products. As part of its wound healing management for hospitals, NHC offers highly specialized treatments including hyperbaric oxygen services, negative pressure wound therapy, bioengineered tissues and biosynthetic.

Committed to health care compliance and best practice medicine, NHC provides full implementation of managed wound centers and turnkey hyperbaric oxygen services including supporting a hospital's administrative staff by reporting on patient outcomes and heal rates, providing financial tracking and coding support, offering payer education programs, adhering to strict safety regulations, upholding regulatory compliance, implementing community outreach and education programs and supplying marketing support and materials.