Advanced wound treatment for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients, delivered wherever your patients call home. We bring specialized wound care to every region of Virginia, from Northern Virginia to Southwest Appalachia.
Statewide Coverage
Wound Care Specialists provides mobile wound care across all regions of Virginia. Our certified wound care specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences to deliver clinic-quality treatment on-site. Our certified specialists come to your patients wherever they are in Virginia.
From Arlington and Alexandria to Loudoun County, Reston, Leesburg, and beyond, the Northern Virginia region is home to more than 3 million people. We serve this densely populated metropolitan area with regular scheduled visits to skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and private homes. Many of these facilities rely on us for specialized wound care support that their staff doesn't have bandwidth to manage.
Richmond, Petersburg, Chesterfield, Henrico, and the surrounding Piedmont counties comprise one of Virginia's major population centers. We provide mobile wound care across this region, serving community hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and homebound patients throughout the metro area and central Virginia.
Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Williamsburg, and the surrounding Tidewater region face unique healthcare access challenges. This region has the highest diabetes prevalence in Virginia, with rates exceeding 18.4% in some areas. Our mobile specialists serve Hampton Roads extensively, bringing specialized wound care to facilities and homes across the entire southeastern Virginia coast.
From Roanoke and Salem to Lynchburg, Blacksburg, and the Blue Ridge mountain communities, we serve the west-central region of Virginia. Rural counties in this region often struggle with healthcare workforce shortages and limited access to specialized care. We bring certified wound specialists to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and patient homes.
Southwest Virginia and the Appalachian counties face some of the most serious health disparities in the United States. This region has higher rates of diabetes, more limited healthcare access, higher poverty rates, and worse health outcomes overall. Many of these counties lack diabetes self-management education and support services. Our mobile wound care program brings specialized treatment to the most underserved communities in Virginia, helping prevent amputations and improve outcomes in patients who otherwise would have no access to wound care expertise.
Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington, and the rural communities throughout the Shenandoah Valley are served by our mobile team. Many of the counties in this region are designated as Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas. We provide consistent, specialized wound care to facilities and patients across the Valley.
The Challenge
816,700
Virginia adults living with diabetes
11.8%
Adult diabetes prevalence rate
102 of 133
Counties are Health Professional Shortage Areas
Virginia has a wound care access problem, and it's getting worse.
More than 816,700 Virginia adults live with diabetes, and the state faces a stark divide in healthcare outcomes. Northern Virginia ranks among the wealthiest and healthiest regions in the nation, with good access to primary care and specialized services. But across Southwest Virginia and Appalachian counties, the situation is dramatically different.
A 2025 study by Virginia Commonwealth University found that 44% of Virginia's census tracts lack adequate primary care access, affecting nearly 3.8 million residents. The disparities are even more striking in rural areas, where 102 of Virginia's 133 counties are federally designated as Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas. For nursing home residents, assisted living patients, and those without reliable transportation, getting to a specialized wound care clinic is often nearly impossible.
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.
The disparities are starkest in specific regions. Western Tidewater has a diabetes prevalence of 18.4%, and the death rate from diabetes in that region is 28.5 per 100,000 people compared to 19.6 statewide. In Appalachian Virginia, diabetes is more common in distressed counties, with about 1 in 5 people aged 45 to 64 living with the condition, compared to only 1 in 8 in non-Appalachian areas.
Beyond the shortage of primary care providers, Virginia also faces a critical shortage of wound care specialists. 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, 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 Virginia, from Northern Virginia to Southwest Appalachia and every region in between. Our mobile specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences.
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 of Virginia.
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 and is 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 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 Virginia.