Our Mission
National Healing Corporation is committed to meeting the United States' growing
healthcare crisis of chronic wounds by providing wound management services to hospitals
to create wound healing centers of excellence
with proven profitability and to pursing
research into new advances in the field.
In the United States, chronic wounds affect 6.5 million patients. An estimated excess
of US $25 billion is spent annually on treatment of chronic wounds and the burden
is rapidly growing due to increasing health care costs, an aging population and
a sharp rise in the incidence of diabetes and obesity worldwide. The annual wound
care products market is projected to reach $15.3 billion by 2010. Chronic wounds
are rarely seen in individuals who are otherwise healthy. In fact, chronic wound
patients frequently suffer from "highly branded" diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
This seems to have overshadowed the significance of wounds per se as a major health
problem. For example, NIH's Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool directed at
providing access to estimates of funding for various disease conditions does list
several rare diseases but does not list wounds. Forty million inpatient surgical
procedures were performed in the United States in 2000, followed closely by 31.5
million outpatient surgeries. The need for post-surgical wound care is sharply on
the rise. Emergency wound care in an acute setting has major significance not only
in a war setting but also in homeland preparedness against natural disasters as
well as against terrorism attacks. An additional burden of wound healing is the
problem of skin scarring, a $12 billion annual market. The immense economic and
social impact of wounds in our society calls for allocation of a higher level of
attention and resources to understand biological mechanisms underlying cutaneous
wound complications.
Abstract from Human Skin: A Major Snowballing Threat to Public Health and the Economy,
published November 2009 in Wound Repair and Regeneration
NHC managed wound care centers with turnkey hyperbaric oxygen outpatient services
is meeting the hidden epidemic of chronic wounds with state-of-the-art wound care
and leading edge methodologies and treatments.
Through the National Healing Institute on
The Ohio State University along with national and regional research symposiums,
NHC offers specialized wound care training
in the latest diagnostic tests, technologies and treatments currently available.
The advantages of a NHC managed wound healing center and turnkey hyperbaric oxygen
outpatient services don't end with clinical success. NHC cost-effective wound services
for hospitals include full implementation
of new and existing programs, comprehensive
hospital reporting, case management education
and marketing and community outreach
to provide cost-effective wound management solutions for hospitals and prove its
commitment to uncompromising care and satisfaction for the patients, physicians,
and hospitals it serves.
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