Advanced wound treatment for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients, delivered wherever your patients call home. Our mobile wound care specialists serve all of Florida, from the Miami metro to rural communities in the Panhandle.
Statewide Coverage
Wound Care Specialists provides mobile wound care across every region of Florida, from the Miami metro and Gulf Coast to Central Florida and the Northeast. Our certified wound care specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences to deliver clinic-quality treatment on-site.
Miami-Dade and surrounding South Florida counties are home to more than 6 million people and some of the state's largest concentrations of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. We serve Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and the surrounding South Florida region. For skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies in the Miami metro, our team provides regular scheduled visits so your patients receive consistent, specialized wound care without straining your staff.
From Tampa and St. Petersburg to Sarasota and Naples, the Gulf Coast region is home to major retirement communities and a dense network of long-term care facilities. Our mobile specialists serve Hillsborough, Pinellas, Sarasota, Collier, and Lee counties. For facilities in this region, we provide on-site wound assessment and treatment coordinated with your existing care protocols.
Central Florida continues to grow as a retirement destination and medical hub. We serve Orlando, Daytona, and surrounding communities in Orange, Osceola, Brevard, and Volusia counties. Our team brings wound care to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients across the region.
North Florida's Duval, St. Johns, and surrounding counties face the same healthcare access challenges as many rural regions. We serve Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and the surrounding communities, providing specialized wound care to facilities and homebound patients across the region.
Rural Southwest Florida and the Panhandle have patient-to-provider ratios that make access to specialty care difficult. We serve Fort Myers, Pensacola, Tallahassee, and surrounding communities, bringing wound care clinic services to patients who would otherwise face long drives or delayed treatment.
The Challenge
2.07 Million
Florida adults living with diabetes
21.75%
Percentage of Florida population age 65 or older
25.7%
Diabetes prevalence in Miami-Dade County
Florida faces a wound care access crisis driven by two converging forces: an aging population and a diabetes epidemic that shows no sign of slowing.
More than 2 million Florida adults live with diabetes, with prevalence rates of 11.6% across the state overall, but reaching 25.7% in Miami-Dade County.. From 2008 to 2022, diabetes prevalence in Florida increased by 28.4%, and type 2 diabetes cases alone jumped 87% over the same period. That trajectory is only getting steeper.
Diabetes is the leading driver of chronic wounds. Roughly 15% to 25% of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer during their lifetime, and those ulcers precede 80% of lower-extremity amputations. Many of these amputations are preventable, but only if patients receive consistent, specialized wound care. And that's where the system breaks down.
Florida has the oldest population in the nation outside of Maine and Vermont. More than 21.75% of Florida residents are age 65 or older, and that population is still growing. At the same time, nearly 800,000 seniors spend winter months in Florida as "snowbirds", creating a unique seasonal surge in healthcare demand and care coordination challenges across state lines. Most of these seasonal residents are managing chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis, and coordinating wound care across two states adds complexity that traditional clinic-based providers simply can't manage.
Florida's long-term care market reflects this reality. The state has 3,080 licensed assisted living facilities and 691 nursing homes serving a patient population that is sicker, older, and more medically complex than ever before. Staff at these facilities are stretched. For many nursing homes and assisted living communities, chronic wound management consumes time and resources that are barely available. Patients who need specialized wound care often end up waiting days or weeks for clinic appointments because transportation is difficult, mobility is limited, or the facility lacks the expertise to manage the wound in-house.
That's the gap Wound Care Specialists was built to close. We bring the wound care clinic to the patient, eliminating the transportation barrier and giving facilities the specialized support their staff needs but doesn't have time to provide.
Our Services
Every treatment plan starts with a thorough assessment by a board-certified wound care specialist. Based on the wound type, severity, and the patient's overall health, we develop an individualized protocol using evidence-based advanced therapies.
Pressure ulcers, venous leg ulcers, arterial ulcers, surgical wounds that won't close, and other chronic wounds that haven't responded to standard care. We assess, treat, and manage these cases from the patient's bedside, with regular progress tracking and reporting to the referring care team.
Learn more about wound debridement →Diabetic foot ulcers are the leading cause of non-traumatic lower-extremity amputations. Our limb preservation approach includes offloading, debridement, vascular assessment, and advanced therapies designed to heal the wound and prevent amputation.
Learn more about diabetic foot & limb salvage →For wounds that need additional biological support to heal, we apply advanced skin grafts and synthetic skin substitutes at the patient's location. No hospital visit required.
Learn more about skin substitutes & grafts →Removing dead or infected tissue is often the first step toward healing. Our specialists perform sharp, enzymatic, and autolytic debridement on-site as part of the treatment plan.
Learn more about debridement →Portable wound VAC systems that promote healing through controlled negative pressure, delivered and managed at the patient's home or facility.
Learn more about negative pressure therapy →Getting Started
Getting started takes two minutes. Here's what to expect.
Submit a referral through our HIPAA-compliant form or call us at (828) 351-6000. Tell us about the patient, the wound, and where they're located. The process is the same for patients and family members/loved ones of patients.
One of our wound care specialists visits the patient at their home, nursing facility, or assisted living community. During the first visit, we perform a comprehensive wound assessment, develop an individualized treatment plan, and begin care immediately when appropriate.
Treatment continues on a regular schedule based on the care plan. We chart everything, communicate progress directly to the referring provider or care team, and provide clear outcome reporting so everyone involved knows how healing is progressing.
Response time: We work to schedule initial consultations as quickly as possible. Availability varies by region, but our goal is to see new patients within days of receiving a referral.
For Healthcare Providers
If you're a home health agency, skilled nursing facility, hospice provider, or wound care clinic director reading this page, you already know the problem: chronic wounds consume disproportionate time, resources, and staff bandwidth.
Wound Care Specialists was built to be your partner and clinical extension of your existing team that handles specialized wound care, so your nurses can focus on their full scope of responsibilities.
Your nurses are stretched across dozens of patients. When a complex wound case comes in, a diabetic foot ulcer or a pressure injury that isn't healing pulls time away from every other patient on the caseload. We carry that load. Our specialists treat the wound, document everything, and report back to your team. Depending on the treatment plan, our involvement can actually reduce the number of skilled nursing visits required per wound patient.
Chronic wounds stall discharges, expose you to survey risk, and strain already-stretched nursing staff. We come to your facility, treat residents on-site, and produce survey-ready documentation aligned with CMS standards.
Your team signed up to provide comfort care. Wound management on top of an already demanding caseload pulls nurses away from what matters most. We handle the wound so your team can focus on the patient.
Patients who miss appointments aren't healing. We serve as a mobile extension of your clinic, treating homebound or transportation-limited patients wherever they are, coordinating care with your protocols, and reporting progress back to your team.
We provide mobile wound care across the entire state of Florida, from South Florida and the Miami metro to the Gulf Coast, Central Florida, Northeast Florida, Southwest Florida, and the Panhandle. Our mobile specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences throughout the state.
Yes. We accept Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial insurance plans. Coverage for mobile wound care services is generally the same as coverage for in-clinic wound care. Our team handles insurance verification and can walk you through what your plan covers before treatment begins.
We work to schedule initial consultations within days of receiving a referral. Timing depends on location and current scheduling, but we prioritize urgent wound cases and do our best to minimize wait times across all regions.
We treat chronic and complex wounds including diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers (bedsores), venous leg ulcers, arterial ulcers, surgical wounds that won't heal, and traumatic wounds. If a wound hasn't responded to standard treatment, that's exactly when specialized wound care makes the biggest difference.
No. Patients and family members can contact us directly. However, if you're a healthcare provider referring a patient, we have a streamlined HIPAA-compliant referral process that takes about two minutes.
Two things. First, our medical director, Dr. Lonnie Lassiter, has more than 20 years of wound care and hyperbaric medicine experience. He's truly one of the nation's foremost experts on chronic wound care. Second, we don't just treat wounds. We coordinate care with your existing providers, chart everything, and report outcomes transparently.
We chart every visit, communicate progress directly to referring providers and clinical staff, and provide regular outcome reports. We're designed to work alongside your team. For skilled nursing facilities, we also produce survey-ready documentation aligned with CMS standards.
Yes. For patients who split time between Florida and another state, we can coordinate with your out-of-state care team to ensure continuity when the patient travels. We recommend obtaining relevant medical records from both locations and establishing direct communication between providers before seasonal transitions occur.
If you or a loved one has a chronic wound that isn't healing, you don't have to wait for a clinic appointment. Our specialists come to you, wherever you call home in Florida.