Advanced wound treatment for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients, delivered wherever your patients call home. From Memphis to the Tri-Cities, we serve all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee.
Statewide Coverage
Wound Care Specialists provides mobile wound care across every region of Tennessee, from West Tennessee's Mississippi River plains to East Tennessee's mountains and the rolling hills of Middle Tennessee. Our certified wound care specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences to deliver clinic-quality treatment on-site.
West Tennessee, home to 1.3 million people, faces some of the state's most significant healthcare access challenges. We serve Memphis, Jackson, Dyersburg, and surrounding communities across all 21 West Tennessee counties. Rural hospital closures have left many communities without emergency services, making mobile wound care especially critical for patients who cannot travel. Our mobile specialists work with home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and hospice providers throughout the region to deliver consistent wound care without requiring facility staff to manage complex cases alone.
Nashville is Tennessee's largest metro area and capital, but Middle Tennessee's 39 counties include some of the state's most rural communities. We serve Nashville, Clarksville, Columbia, and the rolling hills beyond, partnering with providers across the region's mix of urban and rural settings. For home health agencies and nursing facilities in Middle Tennessee, our team provides regular scheduled visits so your patients receive specialized wound care without disrupting your existing staff capacity.
East Tennessee's 35 counties stretch from Knoxville to the mountains of the Smokies. We serve Knoxville, Oak Ridge, and surrounding Piedmont communities, bringing mobile wound care to patients across the region's mix of urban centers and rural mountain communities.
Southeast Tennessee's distinct healthcare landscape includes Chattanooga, the state's third largest city, alongside rural mountain counties facing workforce and access constraints. We serve Chattanooga, Cleveland, and surrounding communities with the same mobile wound care model that works across the rest of the state.
Upper East Tennessee, home to the Tri-Cities of Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport, faces particular healthcare access challenges due to distance and rural geography. We serve all communities in this region, bringing wound specialists to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences across the northeastern mountains.
The Challenge
14.6%
Adult diabetes prevalence in Tennessee
650,000
Tennessee adults living with diagnosed diabetes
94 of 95
Tennessee counties with diabetes rates above the national average
Tennessee has a wound care access problem, and it's getting worse.
More than 650,000 Tennessee adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, representing 14.6% of the state's adult population, according to the Tennessee Department of Health's 2025 Diabetes Action Report. This is well above the national average. Even more striking, 94 of Tennessee's 95 counties have diabetes rates higher than the national average, making diabetes a statewide crisis. Specific high-risk counties include Lauderdale, Dyer, Lake, Fayette, Henderson, Decatur, Perry, Lewis, Giles, Grundy, Marion, Rhea, and Cocke.
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.
Tennessee faces a rural hospital crisis that leads the nation. Since 2010, 22 rural hospitals have shuttered, leaving more than one-fourth of rural counties without a hospital and one-fifth without emergency room services. Many of these closures were driven by Tennessee's status as a non-Medicaid expansion state, which strained hospital finances and forced closures in communities that could least afford to lose them.
Rural Tennesseans already face diminished access to care due to limited healthcare facilities, long travel times, and workforce shortages. For homebound patients, nursing home residents, and those without reliable transportation, getting to a wound care clinic is nearly impossible. When those same communities lose their hospitals, the barrier to specialized wound care becomes absolute.
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 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 Tennessee, from West Tennessee's Mississippi River plains to East Tennessee's mountains and all points in between. Our mobile specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences across all three Grand Divisions of 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.
Three things. First, our medical director, Dr. Lonnie Lassiter, has more than 20 years of wound care experience in the Southeast. 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 Tennessee's unique healthcare landscape, from rural hospital closures to the specific challenges of the state's three Grand Divisions, and we've built our service model to address them.
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. Rural Tennessee is exactly where mobile wound care matters most. With 22 rural hospital closures since 2010 and ongoing healthcare access challenges across the state, we've designed our service to reach patients in communities that have lost in-patient hospital resources. Call us at (828) 351-6000 to discuss your patient's location and needs.
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 Tennessee.