Advanced wound treatment for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients, delivered wherever your patients call home. We also operate a brick-and-mortar location with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Statewide Coverage
Wound Care Specialists provides mobile wound care across every region of North Carolina, from the mountains of Asheville to the coast of Wilmington, and everywhere in between. Our certified wound care specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences to deliver clinic-quality treatment on-site.
The Charlotte metropolitan area is home to more than 2.7 million people, and Mecklenburg County's 65+ population is growing faster than nearly any county in the Southeast. We serve Charlotte, Gastonia, Concord, Huntersville, Mooresville, and the surrounding Piedmont region, including Guilford, Forsyth, Cabarrus, Rowan, and Iredell counties. For skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies in the Charlotte metro, our team provides regular scheduled visits so your patients receive consistent, specialized wound care without the burden on your staff.
Our roots are in western North Carolina. Dr. Lonnie Lassiter has served patients in Rutherford and Polk counties for more than 20 years, and our Forest City clinic is the home base for Wound Care Specialists. We serve Asheville, Hendersonville, Hickory, Morganton, Marion, Brevard, and the surrounding mountain communities. For patients in western NC who need hyperbaric oxygen therapy, our Forest City clinic offers this treatment on-site — the only Wound Care Specialists clinic location in the state.
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point — our mobile team covers the Research Triangle and Triad regions. These metro areas are home to some of the state's largest skilled nursing facility networks and home health agencies, and we partner with providers across the region to deliver specialized wound care their teams don't have time or bandwidth to manage alone.
From Fayetteville and Jacksonville to Greenville, New Bern, and Wilmington — we serve eastern North Carolina's rural communities and coastal regions. Many of these counties face significant healthcare access challenges, with patient-to-provider ratios exceeding 1,500 to one. Mobile wound care eliminates the transportation barrier that keeps some of the state's most vulnerable patients from receiving the specialized treatment they need.
The Challenge
1.1 Million
North Carolina adults living with diabetes
13.2%
Adult diabetes prevalence rate
No. 7 in the U.S.
NC ranks among top 10 states of diabetes prevalence.
North Carolina has a wound care access problem, and it's getting worse.
More than 1 million North Carolina adults live with diabetes, giving the state one of the highest diabetes prevalence rates in the country at 13.2% of the adult population. In rural counties, that number climbs even higher. Sampson County leads the state at 13.5%, and North Carolina is one of only seven states where rural-urban diabetes disparities persist even after accounting for income, education, and obesity.
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.
One in six North Carolinians is 65 or older, and that population is projected to nearly double to 2.7 million by 2040. Forty-three percent of the state's older adults live in rural counties where healthcare access is already strained. Nearly 75% of North Carolina counties have patient-to-provider ratios higher than 1,500 to one. For homebound patients, nursing home residents, and those without reliable transportation, getting to a wound care clinic is nearly impossible.
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 →Our Forest City clinic offers FDA-approved hyperbaric oxygen therapy for qualifying patients. This is the one treatment in our toolkit that requires an in-clinic visit — Dr. Lassiter has overseen thousands of hyperbaric treatments at this location.
Learn more about hyperbaric oxygen therapy →Our Clinic
While our mobile program serves the entire state, Wound Care Specialists also operates a dedicated wound care and hyperbaric medicine clinic in Forest City, NC — something no other mobile wound care provider in the state offers.
Wound Care Specialists
112 Sparks Drive
Forest City, NC 28043
(828) 351-6000
The Forest City clinic is where Dr. Lassiter has practiced wound care and hyperbaric medicine for more than two decades. It's equipped for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, advanced wound assessments, and cases that benefit from an in-clinic setting. For patients across western North Carolina who can travel, the clinic provides an additional point of access. For those who can't, our mobile team comes to them.
The combination of a physical clinic anchored in the community and a statewide mobile program is what sets Wound Care Specialists apart from every other mobile wound care provider operating in North Carolina.
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 a few days.
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 foul scope of responsibilities.
Your nurses are stretched across dozens of patients. When a complex wound case comes in — a diabetic foot ulcer, 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 North Carolina, from the mountains of western NC to the Outer Banks and every region in between. Our mobile specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences. We also operate a wound care and hyperbaric medicine clinic in Forest City, NC.
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.
Three things. First, our medical director, Dr. Lonnie Lassiter, has more than 20 years of wound care and hyperbaric medicine experience in North Carolina. He's truly one of the nation's foremost experts on chronic wound care. Second, we operate the only Wound Care Specialists clinic in NC (in Forest City), which means we can offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy alongside our mobile program. Third, we don't just treat wounds. We coordinate care with your existing providers, chart everything, and report outcomes transparently.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy requires specialized equipment and must be administered in our Forest City clinic. It's the one treatment we can't bring to you. All other wound care services, like debridement, skin grafts, negative pressure therapy, complex wound management, and diabetic foot care, are delivered on-site at the patient's location.
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 North Carolina.