Wound Healing Center Names New Director
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As medical director, Landes will will be the liaison between the physicians on the staff of the center and the hospital's medical staff.
Landes is a member of medical staff of the hospital's Emergency Department, where he has worked since 1999. He earned his medical degree from New York Medical College and is certified with the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has practiced emergency medicine in Berkshire County since 1991.
Physicians and staff at the Wound Healing Center treat patients with chronic wounds and nonresponsive conditions, using highly specialized treatments including negative pressure wound therapy, bioengineered skin substitutes, biological and biosynthetic dressings, and growth factor therapies. The center has a "heal" rate of 96 percent, meaning 96 percent of patients are considered healed within nine visits.
Landes is joined by surgeons Tim Baisch, George Csank, Hisham Hourani and Frederick Loy, and Emergency Department physicians Paul Donovan, Oscar Rodriguez and Robert Sills.
The Wound Healing Center offers hospital-based outpatient wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and partners with patients’ physicians on disease management and diabetes care.
The Wound Healing Center is a partnership between North Adams Regional Hospital and National Healing Corp., one of the nation’s largest wound-care management companies. The center opened in 2009. For more information, call 413-664-5690.
