Advanced wound treatment for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients, delivered wherever your patients call home.
Statewide Coverage
Wound Care Specialists provides mobile wound care across every region of South Carolina, from the Upstate foothills to the Lowcountry coast, 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. Founded by Dr. Lonnie Lassiter, we serve all of South Carolina with the same evidence-based protocols and specialist expertise, regardless of geography or market size.
The Upstate region, anchored by Greenville and Spartanburg, is home to over 1.5 million residents and continues to attract families and retirees relocating to the foothills and piedmont. We serve Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Cherokee, and Union counties, providing mobile wound care to nursing homes, assisted living communities, and patients throughout this economically vibrant corridor. As the population ages and the demand for specialized wound care grows, our team ensures that patients in rural mountain counties receive the same expert assessment and treatment as those in larger medical centers.
South Carolina's capital region encompasses Richland, Lexington, Sumter, and surrounding counties, with Columbia serving as a hub for state government and healthcare administration. Despite the presence of major hospitals and clinics, many nursing homes, assisted living communities, and homebound patients throughout the Midlands struggle to access specialized wound care services without significant delays. Our mobile specialists deliver expert care directly to facilities and homes, eliminating the appointment wait times that can turn minor wounds into serious complications.
Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, and the historic Lowcountry represent one of South Carolina's most dynamically growing regions, attracting retirees and families seeking the coastal lifestyle. The area's mix of urban amenities and rural island communities creates pockets where wound care access remains fragmented. Our team serves facilities across the Lowcountry, from Charleston's urban centers to the more isolated nursing homes on barrier islands and coastal plain communities, ensuring every patient has access to specialist-level care.
The Grand Strand, anchored by Myrtle Beach, is one of the fastest-growing tourism and retirement destinations on the East Coast. Horry, Georgetown, and surrounding counties have experienced explosive population growth, with many new residents arriving in their 60s and 70s. This rapidly aging population requires consistent wound care services, yet facilities and homebound patients often face month-long waits for specialist appointments. We provide same-week or next-day care throughout the region.
The Pee Dee region encompasses Florence, Darlington, Marion, Williamsburg, and neighboring counties. This historically underserved area faces compounding healthcare disparities, including limited specialist access, lower household incomes, and higher rates of chronic disease. Our mobile service model ensures that patients in rural Pee Dee communities receive the same expert wound care as patients in larger cities, without requiring costly travel or family burden.
The Challenge
556,000
South Carolina adults living with diabetes
13.9%
Adult diabetes prevalence rate
95%+
of South Carolina's population lives in a primary care shortage area
South Carolina has a wound care access problem that demands immediate action.
More than 556,000 South Carolina adults live with diabetes, and the state's 13.9% diabetes prevalence rate exceeds the national average, with racial and ethnic disparities particularly stark in low-income counties. The ADA South Carolina Fact Sheet documents that specialty wound care remains concentrated in larger hospitals and urban centers, leaving rural and underserved populations to manage foot ulcers and diabetic wounds with minimal expert guidance.
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 85% of lower-extremity amputations. Many of these amputations are preventable, but only if patients receive consistent, specialized wound care delivered early in the disease course.
South Carolina's healthcare system has failed to close critical equity gaps through traditional clinic-based care. Foot ulcers are the leading cause of amputation in people with diabetes, yet amputation rates among Black South Carolinians are nearly double those among white residents. Research published in Diabetes Care documents this stark disparity and confirms that aggressive early intervention can prevent limb loss. Mobile wound specialists offer a path to equity, delivering expert assessment and aggressive treatment directly to patients who cannot easily reach centralized clinics.
One in five South Carolinians is 65 or older, and that population is growing rapidly, with projections showing that seniors will outnumber younger residents within the next few years. The Rural Health Information Hub documents severe access gaps, particularly in the Pee Dee, the Lowcountry islands, and rural Upstate counties where wound care specialists are nearly unavailable. When 95% of South Carolina's population lives in a primary care shortage area, waiting weeks for a wound care appointment is not an option. Infections progress. Ulcers deepen. Minor wounds become amputations.
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 South Carolina, from the Upstate foothills to the Lowcountry coast and every region in between. Our mobile specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences throughout all South Carolina 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.
Three 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. Third, we understand South Carolina's unique healthcare access challenges, particularly the racial disparities in amputation rates and the severe shortages in specialist availability across rural counties.
South Carolina's Black residents face amputation rates nearly double those of white residents, reflecting decades of healthcare access inequities. Mobile wound care helps address this disparity by eliminating transportation barriers, reducing appointment delays, and delivering expert assessment to underserved communities. By reaching patients early in their disease course, we help prevent the progression from foot ulcer to amputation.
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 South Carolina.