Wound Clinic News & Notes

A new outpatient wound care clinic is among the services being offered at a new comprehensive care center at Oswego (KS) Community Hospital. According to a report by the Parsons Sun, the clinic opened Jan. 2 in the city of Parsons.

The location offers a more centralized option for a high demand of patients who are traveling from various points within the region, according to the report. Patricia Ridings, an advanced registered nurse practitioner in women’s health and family medicine, will oversee the clinic, which will also include services for family medicine, cardiology, rheumatology, and children’s vaccinations programs. Physical and occupational therapy are expected to be added in February. 

Wound Care NP Joins UW Medicine Clinic

Officials with the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Lopez Island Clinic have announced the hiring of Wen Murphy, ARNP, FNP-BC, who will begin working on staff in February. According to a report by The Islands’ Weekly, Murphy brings more than 13 years of holistic nursing experience as well as knowledge in neurotrauma, burn and wound care, pediatrics, and clinical research. Murphy graduated as a family nurse practitioner from Simmons College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She holds a bachelor’s in nursing from Southern Maine University and has extensive burn care experience from burn centers in Arizona and Hawaii, according to the report. 

Mississippi Wound Clinic Names New Director

Brad McKenzie has been named as the new program director at OCH Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center, Starkville, MS, according to a report by the Starkville Daily News. he will be responsible for overseeing the clinic’s day-to-day operations, such as quality management, reimbursement, performance improvement, and community education.

“I’m proud to be a part of a team of true professionals who treat our patients with love and kindness,” McKenzie said in a statement to the newspaper.

McKenzie is a graduate of Mississippi State University and holds a bachelor of science in business and a minor in marketing. He and his wife, Nicole, have two sons, Luke, 10, and Landon, 6. 

Wound Care Physician Named Executive Director of Catholic Family Service 

Mary Rebecca Koterba, RSM, MD, a board-certified physician and surgeon with an extensive wound care background, has been named executive director of Catholic Family Service. Koterba, a Sister of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma (MI), has immediately assumed the position held by the late Thomas Conklin, according to a report by the Morning Sun News. 

Koterba most recently worked at Saint Francis Health System, Tulsa, OK, as an acute care surgeon, wound care clinical director, and supervisor of staff and patient care. She also served as an adjunct clinical professor at Oklahoma State University. Her background includes serving as the medical director and supervisor of staff and patient care at the Wound Treatment Center in Alma and as a wound clinic physician at Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw, MI. She received her doctor of medicine from Michigan State University. In 2011, she earned the Outstanding Volunteer Award by the Michigan State Medical Society after traveling on a medical relief mission to Haiti following the earthquake, according to the report.

Catholic Family Service is a private, not-for-profit agency that provides a full range of services to individuals, couples, and families in the 11 counties of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw. 

Wound Care Center Earns UHMS Accreditation 

The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center at Edward Hospital, Naperville, IL, has earned reaccreditation “with distinction” from the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Clinical Hyperbaric Facility Accreditation Program. According to a report by Positively Naperville, the facility is the only UHMS-accredited hospital in the Chicago area and is one of only two in Illinois to be accredited with distinction. The interdisciplinary team at the wound center includes primary care physicians, surgeons, certified wound/ostomy nurses, and podiatrists trained in wound care, according to the report. Visit www.eehealth.org/services/wound-care for more information.