Wound Care Education Institute and The Center for Wound Healing, Inc. Agree to Provide Wound Care Certification Education to all CFWH Clinical Personnel

LAKE GENEVA, Wis., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wound Care Education Institute® (WCEI) announced today a comprehensive wound certification education and training program in association with The Center for Wound Healing, Inc. (CFWH).  This association and collaborative effort provides an extraordinary opportunity for all qualified CFWH clinical personnel including RN's, LPN's, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, physicians and physician assistants to become WCC® wound care certified by completing the WCEI Skin and Wound Management Course and sitting for the National Certification in Wound Care exam offered by the National Alliance of Wound Care®.

"We are very excited to continue the growth of the WCC credential through The Center for Wound Healing's ever expanding organization," said Nancy Morgan, co-founder of Wound Care Education Institute.

"This new relationship with WCEI provides us with a key capability to further develop our clinical personnel with the largest and fastest growing wound care certification program in the United States.  We have determined that all CFWH wound care clinicians who provide state-of-the-art services to our patients should be WCC certified – this is one of our definitions of Best Practices and quality of service and care we provide our hospital partners and their patients," said Andrew Barnett, CFWH's CEO.  "As we further establish ourselves throughout the United States, we expect to recruit clinicians who share our clinical objectives, and the WCC certification is one of the leading confirmations of the level of expertise we deliver.  We are now and will focus on recruiting WCC's from the network of 10,000 professionals who already have earned this important designation," added Barnett.

About Wound Care Education Institute

The mission of the Wound Care Education Institute is to develop multi-disciplinary wound care professionals in the United States by offering educational programs and clinical support based on up-to-date wound care research, trends, and evidence-based practice.  The Wound Care Education Institute offers a comprehensive skin and wound care training program at locations throughout the United States. www.wcei.net.

About Center for Wound Healing, Inc.

The Center for Wound Healing, Inc. is a leading manager of outpatient comprehensive wound care treatment centers in partnership with hospitals.  CFWH was founded by physicians in 1997 with a focus on establishing in-hospital centers of excellence to treat the growing incidence of severe grade diabetic wounds of the lower extremities and wounds that are unresponsive to general wound care treatments.  The Company's centers have consistently achieved high treatment success rates, resulting in a dramatic increase in patient quality of life and significant cost savings to the healthcare system.  www.centerwh.com.

SOURCE Wound Care Education Institute