Newswise — MAYWOOD, IL - The Loyola Medicine Burn Center has once again been recognized by the American Burn Association (ABA) as an officially Verified Adult and Pediatric Burn Center. The ABA's burn center verification is a true mark of distinction which signals togovernment, third-party payers, patients, families and accreditation organizations that Loyola's Burn Center provides high-quality patient care to burn patients throughout the treatment and rehabilitation process.
"I'm incredibly proud of our multidisciplinary team at the Burn Center," said Joshua Carson, MD, FACS, regional director of Loyola Medicine's Burn Center. "Burn care is more than a surgical specialty; it requires a comprehensive team of specially trained nurses, nutritionists, respiratory therapists, social workers and pharmacists. This recognition is a testament to the institution's commitment to supporting the specialized infrastructure and personnel to provide the best care for our patients and advance the field of burn care.
Loyola Medicine's Burn Center is the largest burn center in Illinois and a regional leader in treating adult and pediatric burns and trauma. Loyola's outstanding success rates and multidisciplinary approach are recognized by the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association. The team at the Burn Center contains specialists from pulmonology, wound management, nutritional support and physical rehabilitation, all of whom provide the most advanced burn care to patients with thermal injuries, electrical burns, chemical injury, frostbite, toxic epidermal necrolysis, inhalation injury and complex soft tissue infections. The center houses an expanded hydrotherapy area for cleaning and dressing wounds and a rehabilitation area where physical and occupational therapists work with patients. An outpatient burn clinic is open five days a week to provide follow-up care. The staff includes nurses, patient care technicians and patient service associations, and the center treats over 4,000 patients each year, with about 40% of the patients being children.
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About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from more than 1,500 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Established in 1961, Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research Facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. MacNeal is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical and psychiatric services, acute rehabilitation, an inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics.
For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 25 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 88 hospitals, 131 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 125 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. Based in Livonia, Michigan, its annual operating revenue is $20.2 billion with $1.2 billion returned to its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.
For more information, visit www.trinity-health.org or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
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