Wound Care Services Available at Carlsbad Medical Center

4/18/2025

Carlsbad Medical Center is pleased to announce the reopening of its outpatient Wound Care Center and the arrival of Wound Care Certified Nurse Practitioner Rochelle McIntire. Nearly 7 million people across the United States suffer from chronic or slow-healing wounds. Wounds fall into two categories: acute and chronic. Acute wounds are related to an accident, injury or surgery. Chronic wounds can also be related to an injury or surgery – but are most often related to a health condition, such as diabetes or vascular disease, that impedes normal healing. If a wound does not heal within a month, and requires medical intervention, it is considered a chronic or slow-healing wound.

Located in the Outpatient Diagnostic Center, which can be found in the front parking lot of the hospital campus, CMC’s Wound Care services include:

• Noninvasive studies
• Debridement (removal of dead/damaged tissue)
• Advanced wound dressings
• Bioengineered tissue (grafts)
• Multi-layer compression wraps for swelling
• Total contact casting (special casts for diabetic foot ulcers)
• Vacuum-assisted closure (procedure to drain a wound, prevent infection and speed healing)

Wounds/skin conditions that can benefit from the Wound Care Center:

• Any wound present for more than four weeks or one that fails to improve with multiple treatments or therapies
• Slow-healing or non-healing surgical wounds
• Neuropathic ulcers (diabetic foot ulcers)
• Mechanical or trauma (skin tears, lesions, toxic drugs)
• Non-healing puncture wounds
• Lower-leg ulcers (venous stasis)
• Radiation and thermal burns

Treatment and therapy for these conditions is provided by McIntire. She earned an associate degree in nursing from New Mexico State University and a bachelor’s degree in applied arts & sciences with a focus on health & human services from Eastern New Mexico University. She then went on to earn her BSN and MSN with a concentration on family nurse practitioner from Walden University. McIntire has over 20 years of nursing experience in a variety of roles, such as perioperative nursing, medical-surgical nursing and private clinical nursing. She is board certified by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and wound care certified by the National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy.

For more information, call (575) 887-4210 or visit www.CarlsbadMedicalCenter.com/wound-care-service.

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