Advanced wound treatment for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients, delivered wherever your patients call home. Our certified specialists serve every region of Georgia, from metro Atlanta to the rural south.
Statewide Coverage
Wound Care Specialists provides mobile wound care across every region of Georgia. Our certified wound care specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences to deliver clinic-quality treatment on-site. From Atlanta's dense network of long-term care facilities to the rural counties of south Georgia where specialist access barely exists, we come to your patients.
The Atlanta metropolitan area is home to more than 6 million people and one of the largest concentrations of skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities in the Southeast. We serve Atlanta, Marietta, Roswell, Alpharetta, Decatur, and surrounding counties including Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and Clayton. For home health agencies and nursing facilities in the metro, our team provides regular scheduled visits so your patients receive specialized wound care without straining your existing nursing staff. Atlanta's 65+ population is projected to grow significantly over the coming decades, and the demand for specialized wound care is growing with it.
Savannah, Brunswick, and the coastal counties face healthcare access challenges that the region's growing retiree population has only intensified. We serve Chatham, Glynn, Camden, Liberty, and surrounding counties, providing mobile wound care to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients throughout the coast. Coastal Georgia's mix of urban Savannah and rural barrier island communities means wound care access varies dramatically within short distances. Our mobile specialists close that gap.
Augusta, Evans, and the surrounding CSRA (Central Savannah River Area) region is home to a large veteran and military-connected population alongside significant rural communities. We serve Augusta, Martinez, Evans, and counties throughout east central Georgia, delivering wound care to facilities and homes where specialist access has historically been limited.
Central Georgia, anchored by Macon and Warner Robins, serves as a hub for middle Georgia's healthcare infrastructure. We serve Bibb, Houston, Peach, Monroe, and surrounding counties. Many rural counties surrounding these metro areas lack wound care specialists entirely, and our mobile team brings expert care to nursing homes and patients throughout the region.
Columbus and the west Georgia corridor along the Alabama border face persistent healthcare workforce shortages. We serve Columbus, LaGrange, Carrollton, and surrounding communities. For facilities in this region, our team provides the specialized wound care expertise that local staffing simply cannot support.
South Georgia has the highest diabetes burden in the state, with prevalence rates exceeding 21% in some health districts. We serve Albany, Valdosta, Waycross, Tifton, and communities throughout the rural south. Many of these counties have lost hospitals, and primary care shortages have persisted for decades. For patients in south Georgia, mobile wound care is often the only realistic path to receiving specialized treatment. We serve every county where our patients need us.
The Challenge
1.1 Million
Georgia adults living with diabetes
12.8%
Adult diabetes prevalence rate
18 of 30
Rural hospitals at risk of closure
Georgia has a wound care access problem, and it's getting worse.
More than 1.1 million Georgia adults live with diabetes, and the state's 12.8% prevalence rate places it above the national average. But the statewide number masks dramatic regional variation. In south Georgia, the situation is far more severe. The Southern health district reports a diabetes prevalence of 21.7%, nearly double the national rate. Southwest and southeast Georgia follow closely behind, with prevalence rates of 16% and 15% respectively. These are the same regions where healthcare access is weakest.
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 from certified experts.
Georgia's rural healthcare infrastructure is under severe stress. Nine rural hospitals have closed since 2010, and 18 of the state's remaining 30 rural hospitals are at risk of closure, with more than half operating on negative margins. Thirty-six Georgia counties carry HPSA scores of 20 or higher, indicating the most severe shortages of primary care providers in the state. Nine Georgia counties, including Jasper, Crawford, Macon, Schley, Lee, Terrell, Screven, Brantley, and Brooks, have had primary care shortages for more than 40 years.
The disparities hit hardest along racial lines. Black Georgians face diabetes rates 24% higher than the general population, and amputation rates among Black patients are nearly three times higher than among non-Black patients. In a state where the Diabetes Belt runs through the rural south, these disparities translate directly into preventable amputations, lost limbs, and lost lives.
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, it 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 Georgia, from metro Atlanta to rural south Georgia and every region in between. Our mobile specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences throughout all Georgia counties.
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.
South Georgia's diabetes prevalence exceeds 21% in some health districts, nearly double the national average. At the same time, rural hospital closures and decades-long primary care shortages have left many communities with extremely limited access to specialized care. Mobile wound care eliminates the transportation barrier that keeps patients in these communities from receiving the treatment they need. For nursing homes and assisted living facilities in rural Georgia, our service provides specialist-level wound care that would otherwise require transporting patients hours to a metro clinic.
Two things. First, our medical director, Dr. Lonnie Lassiter, has more than 20 years of wound care and hyperbaric medicine experience and is one of the nation's foremost experts on chronic wound care. Second, we coordinate care with your existing providers, chart everything, and report outcomes transparently so everyone involved knows how healing is progressing.
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.
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 Georgia.