Hospitals providing the following services:
(based on the 2006 AHA Annual Survey)

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Definitions of Facility Codes

1. Acute long-term care. Provides specialized acute hospital care to medically complex patients who are critically ill, have multisystem complications and/or failure, and require hospitalization averaging 25 days, in a facility offering specialized treatment programs and therapeutic intervention on a 24-hour/7 day a week basis.
2. Adult day care program. Program providing supervision, medical and psychological care, and social activities for older adults who live at home or in another family setting, but cannot be alone or prefer to be with others during the day. May include intake assessment, health monitoring, occupational therapy, personal care, noon meal, and transportation services.
3. Airborne infection isolation room A single-occupancy room for patient care where environmental factors are controlled in an effort to minimize the transmission of those infectious agents, usually spread person to person by droplet nuclei associated with coughing and inhalation. Such rooms typically have specific ventilation requirements for controlled ventilation, air pressure and filtration.
4. Alcoholism-drug abuse or dependency inpatient unit. Provides, diagnosis and therapeutic services to patients with alcoholism or other drug dependencies. Includes care for inpatientlresidential treatment for patients whose course of treatment involves more intensive care than provided in an outpatient setting or where patient requires supervised withdrawal.
5. Alcoholism-drug abuse or dependency outpatient unit. Organized hospital services that provide medical care and/or rehabilitative treatment services to outpatients for whom the primary diagnosis is alcoholism or other chemical dependency.
6. Alzheimer Center. Facility that offers care to persons with Alzheimer's disease and their families through an integrated program of clinical services, research, and education.
7. Ambulance Services. Provision of ambulance services to the ill and injured who require medical attention on a scheduled or unscheduled basis.
8. Ambulatory Surgery Center. Facility that provides care to patients requiring surgery who are admitted and discharged on the same day. Ambulatory surgery centers are distinct from same day surgical units within the hospital outpatient departments for purposes of Medicare payments.
9. Arthritis treatment center. Specifically equiped and staffed center for the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis and other joint disorders.
10. Assisted living. A special combination of housing, supportive services, personalized assistance and health care designed to respond to the individual needs of those who need help in activities of daily living and instrumental activities, of daily living. Supportive services are available 24 hours a day, to meet scheduled and unscheduled needs, in a way that promotes maximum independence and dignity for each resident and encourages the involvement of a resident's family, neighbor and friends.
11. Auxiliary organization. A volunteer community organization formed to assist the hospital in carrymg out its purpose and to serve as a link between
the institution and the community.
12. Bariatric/weight control services. Bariatrics is the medical practice of weight reduction.
13. Birthing room-LDR room-LDRRP room. A single room-type of maternity care with a more homelike ssetting for families than the traditional three-room unit (labor/delivery/recovery) with a separate postpartum area. A birthing room combines labor and delivery in one room. An LDR room accommodates three stages in the birthing process- labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum.
14. Blood Donor Center. A facility that performs, or is responsible for the collection, processing, testing or distribution of blood and components.
15. Breast cancer screening/mammograms. Mammography screening-the use of breast x-ray to detect unsuspected breast cancer in asymptomatic women. Diagnostic mammography-the x-ray imaging of breast tissue in symptomatic women who are condidered to have a substantial likelihood of having breast cancer already.
16. Burn care services. Provides care to severely burned patients. Severely burned patients are those with any of the following: 1. Second-degree burns of more than 25% total body surface area for adults or 20% total body surface area for children; 2. Third-degree burns of more than 10% total body surface area; 3. Any severe burns of the hands, face, eyes, ears or feet or; 4. All inhalation injuries, electrical burns, complicated burn injuries involving fractures and other major traumas, and all other poor risk factors.
17. Cardiac intensive care services. Provides patient care of a more specialized nature than the usual medical and surgical care, on the basis of physician's orders and approved nursing care plans. The unit is staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contains monitoring and specialized support or treatment equipment for patients who, because of heart seizure,oipen-heart surgery, or other life-threatening conditions, require intensified, comprehensive observation and care. May include myocardial infarction, pulmonary care, and heart transplant units.
18. Adult diagnostic/invasive catheterization. (also called coronary angiography or coronary arteriography) is used to assist in diagnosing complex heart conditions. Cardiac angiography involves the insertion of a tiny catheter into the artery in the groin then carefully threading the catheter up into the aorta where the coronary arteries originate. Once the catheter is in place, a dye is injected which allows the cardiologist to see the size, shape, and distribution of the coronary arteries. These images are used to diagnose heart disease and to determine, among other things, whether or not surgery is indicated.
19. Pediatric diagnostic/ invasive catherterization  
20 Adult interventional cardiac catheterization. Non surgical procedure that utilizes the same basic principles as diagnostice catheterization and then uses advanced techniques to improve the heart's function. It can be a less-invasive alternative to heart surgery.
21. Pediatric interventional cardiac catheterization.  
22. Adult cardiac surgery. Includes minimally invasive procedures that include surgery done with only a small incision or no incision at all, such as through a laparoscope or an endoscope and more invasive major surgical procedures that include open chest and open heart surgery.
23. Pediatric cardiac surgery.  
24. Cardiac Rehabilitation. A medically supervised program to help heart patients recover quickly and improve their overall physical and mental functioning. The goal is to reduce risk of another cardiac event or to keep an already present heart condition from getting worse. Cardiac rehabilitation programs include: counseling to patients, an exercise program, helping patients modify risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure, providing vocational guidance to enable the patient to return to work, supplying information on physical limitations and lending emotional support.
25. Case management. A system of assessment, treatment planning, referral and follow-up that ensures the provision of comprehensive and continuous services and the coordination of payment and reimbursement for care.
26. Chaplaincy/pastoral care services. A service ministering religious activities and providing pastoral counseling to patients, their families, and staff of a health care organization.
27. .Chemotherapy. .An organized program for the treatment of cancer by the use of drugs or chemicals.
28. Children wellness program A Program that encourages improved health status and a healthful lifestyle of children through health education, exercise, nutrition and health promotion
29. Chiropractic services. An organized clinical service including spinal manipulation or adjustment and related diagnostiac and therapeutic services.
30. Community health reporting. Does your hospital either by itself or in conjunction with others disseminate reports to the community on the quality and costs of health care services?
31. Community health status assessment. Does your hospital work with other providers, public agencies, or community representatives to conduct a health status assessment of the community?
32. Community health status based service planning. Does your hospital use health status indicators (such as rates of health problems or surveys of self-reported health) for defined populations to design new services or modify existing services?
33. Community outreach. A program that systematically interacts with the community to identify those in need of services, alerting persons and their families to the availability of services, locating needed services, and enabling persons to enter sthe service delivery system.
34. Complementary medicine. Organized hospital services or formal arrangements to providers that provide care or treatment not based soley on traditional western allopathic medical teachings as instructed in most U.S. medical schools. Includes any of the following; acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, osteopathy, diet and lifestyle changes, herbal medicine, massage therapy, etc.
35. Computer assisted orthopedic surgery (CAOS). Orthopedic surgery using computer technology, enabling three-dimensional graphic models to visualize a patient's anatomy.
36. Crisis Prevention. Servies provided in order to promote physical and mental well being and the early identification of disease and ill health prior to the onset and recognition of symptoms so as to permit early treatment.
37. Dental services. An organized dental service, not necessarily involving special facilities, that provides dental or oral services to inpatients or outpatients.
38. Emergency department. Hospital facilities for the provision of unscheduled outpatient services to patients whose conditions require immediate care. Must be staffed 24 hours a day.
39. Freestanding/Satellite Emergency Department. A facility owned and operated by the hospital but physically separate from the hospital for the provisions of unscheduled outpatient services to patients whose conditions require.
40. Trauma center (certified). A facility certified to provide emergency and specialized intensive care to critally ill and injured patients.
41. Enabling services. A program that is designed to help the patient access health care services by offering any of the following linguistic services, transportation services, and/or referrals to local social services agencies.
42. Hospice program. A program providing palliative care, chiefly medical relief of pain and supportive services, addressing the emotional, social, financial, and legal needs of terminally ill patients and their families. Care can be provided in a variety of settings, both inpatients and at home.
43. Pain management. A hospital wide formalized program that includes staff education for the management of chronic and acute pain based on guidelines and protocols like those developed by the agency for Health Care Policy Research, etc.
44. Palliative care program. An organized program providing specialized medical care, drugs or therapies for the management of acute or chronic pain and/or the contol of symptoms administered by specially trained physicians and other clinicians; and supportive care services, such as counseling on advanced directives, spiritual care, and social services, to patients with advanced disease and their familes.
45. Enrollment assistance services. A program that provides enrollment assistance for patients who are potentially eligible for public health insurance programs such as Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance, or local/state indigent care programs. The specific services offered could include explanation of benefits, assist applicants in completing the application and locating all relevant documents, conduct eligibility interviews, and/or forward applications and documentation to state/local social service or health agency.
46. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter (ESWL). A medical device used for treating stones in the kidney or ureter. The device disintegrates kidney stones noninvasively through the transmission of acoustic shock waves directed at the stones.
47. Fitness Center. Provides exercie, testing, or evaluation programs and fitness activities to the community and hospital employees.
48. Freestanding outpatient care center. A facility owned and operated by the hospital, but physically separate from the hospital, that provides various medical treatments on an outpatient basis only. In addition to treating minor illnesses or injuries, the center will stabilize seriously ill or injured patients before transporting them to a hospital. Laboratory and radiology services are usually available.
49. Geriatric services. The branch of medicine dealing with the physiology of aging and the diagnosis and treatment of disease affecting the aged. Services could include: Adult day care program; Alzheimer's diagnostic-assessment services; Comprehensive geriatric assessment; Emergency response system; Geriatric acute care unit; and/or Geriatric clinics.
50. Health fair. Community health education events that focus on the prevention of disease and promotion of health through such activities as audiovisual exhibits and free diagnostic services.
51. Health information center. Education which is directed at increasing the information of individuals and populations. It is intended to increase the ability to make informed personal, family and community health decisions by providing consumers with informed choices about health matters with the objective of improving health status.
52. Health screenings.
A preliminary procedure, such as a test or examination to detect the most characteristic sign or signs of a disorder that may require further investigation.
53. Hemodialysis
Provision of equipment and personnel for the treatment of renal insuffficiency on an inpatient or outpatient basis.
54. HIV-AIDS services.
Services may include one or more of the following: HIV-AIDS unit (special unit or team designated and equipped specifically for diagnosis, treatment, continuing care planning, and counseling services for HIV-AIDS patients and their families.) General inpatient care for HIV-AIDS (inpatient diagnosis and treatment for human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients, but dedicated unit is not available.) Specialized outpatient program for HIV-AIDS (special outpatient program providing diagnostic, treatment, continuing care planning, and counseling for HIV-AIDS patients and their families.)
55.

Home health services.

 

 Service providing nursing, therapy, and health-related homemaker or social services in the patient's home.
56. Hospital-based outpatient care center services. Organized hospital health care services offered by appointment on an ambulatory basis. Services may include outpatient surgery, examination, diagnosis, and treatment of a variety of medical conditions on a nonemergency basis, and laboratory and other diagnostic testing as ordered by staff or outside physician referral.
57. Intermediate nursing care. Provides health-related services (skilled nursing care and social services) to residents with a variety of physical conditions or functional disabilities. These residents do not require the care provided by a hospital or skilled nursing facility, but do need supervision and support services.
58.

Linguistic/translation services.

 

 Services provided by the hospital designed to make health care more accessible to non-English speaking patients and their physicians.
59. Meals on wheels. A hospital sponsored program which delivers meals to people, usually the elderly, who are unable to prepare their own meals. Low cost, nutritional meals are delivered to individuals' homes on a regular basis.
60. Medical surgical intensive care services. Provides patient care of a more intensive nature than the usual medical and surgical care, on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. These units are staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contain monitoring and specialized support equipment of patients who, because of shock, trauma, or other life-threatening conditions, require intensified, comprehensive observation and care. Includes mixed intensive care units.
61.
Mobile health services.
Vans and other vehicles used to deliver primary care services.
62. Neonatal intensive care.
A unit that must be separate from the newborn nursery providing intensive care to all sick infants including those with the very lowest birth weights (less than 1500 grams). NICU has potential for providing mechanical ventilation, neonatal surgery, and special care for the sickest infants born in the hospital or transferred from another institution. A full-time neonatologist serves as director of the NICU.
63. Neonatal intermediate care. A unit that must be separate from the normal newborn nursery and that provides intermediate and/or recovery care and some specialized services, including immediate resuscitation, intravenous therapy, and capacity for prolonged oxygen therapy and monitoring.
64. Neurological services.
Services provided by the hospital dealing with the operative and nonoperative management of disorders of the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system.
65.

Nutrition programs.

 

 Those services within a health care facility which are designed to provide inexpensive, nutritionally sound meals to patients.
66. Obstretrics services. Levels should be designated: (1) unit provides services for uncomplicated maternity and newborn cases; (2) unit provides services for uncomplicated cases, the majority of complicated problems, and special neonatal services; and (3) unit provides services for all serious illnesses and abnormalities and is supervised by a full-time maternal/fetal specialist.
67. Occupational health services. Includes services designed to protect the safety of employees from hazards in the work environment.
68. Oncology services.
An organized program for the treatment of cancer by the use of drugs or chemicals.
69. Orthopedic services.
Services provided for the prevention or correction of injuries or disorders of the skeletal system and associated muscles, joints, and ligaments.
70. Other special care.
Provides care to patients requiring care more intensive than that provided in the acute area, yet not sufficiently intensive to require admission to an intensive care unit. Patients admitted to the area are usually transferred here from an intensive care unit once their condition has improved. These units are sometimes referred to as definitive observations, step-down, or progressive care units.
71 Outpatient surgery.
Scheduled surgical services provided to patients who do not remain in the hospital overnight. The surgery may be performed in operating suites also used for inpatient surgery, specially designated surgical suites for outpatient surgery, or procedure rooms within an outpatient care facility.
72. Patient controlled analgesia (PCA). Patient-controlled Analgesia (PCA) is intravenously administered pain medicine under the patient's control. The patient has a button on the end of a cord that can be pushed at will, whenever more pain medicine is desired. This button will only deliver more pain medicine at pre-determined intervals, as programmed by the doctor's order.
73. Patient education center.

Written goals and objectives for the patient and/or family related to therapeutic regimens, medical procedures, and self care.
74. Patient representative services Organized hospital services providing personnel through whom patients and staff can seek solutions to institutional problems affecting the delivery of high-quality care and services.
75. Pediatric intensive care services. Provides care to pediatric patients that is of a more intensive nature than that usually provided to pediatric patients. The unit is staffed with specially trained personnel and contains monitoring and specialized support equipment for treatment of patients who, because of shock, trauma, or other life-threatening conditions, require intensified, comprehensive observation and care.
76. Pediatric medical-surgical care. Provides acute care to pediatric patients on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans.
77. Physical rehabilitation inpatient services. Provides care encompassing a comprehensive array of restoration services for the disabled and all support services necessary to help patients attain their maximum functional capacity.
78. Physical rehabilitation outpatient services. Outpatient program providing medical, health-related, therapy, social, and/or vocational services to help disabled persons attain or retain their maximum functional capacity.
79. Primary care department. A unit or clinic within the hospital that provides primary care services (e..g. general pediatric care, general internal medicine, family practice and gynecology) through hospital-salaried medical and/or nursing staff, focusing on evaluating and diagnosing medical problems and providing medical treatment on an outpatient basis.
80. Psychiatric care. Provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems, on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered, or other mentally incompetent persons.
81. Psychiatric child-adolescent services. Provides care to emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, including those admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment.
82. Psychiatric consultation-liaison services. Provides organized psychiatric consultation/liaison services to nonpsychiatric hospital staff and/or department on psychological aspects of medical care that may be generic or specific to individual patients.
83.

Psychiatric education services.

 

Provides phychiatric educational services to community agencies and workers such as schools, police, courts, public health nurses, welfare agencies, clergy and so forth. The purpose is to expand the mental health knowledge and competence of personnel not working in the mental health field and to promote good mental health through improved understanding, atitudes, and behavioral patterns.
84. Psychiatric emergency services. Services or facilities available on a 24-hour basis to provide immediate unscheduled outpatient care, diagnosis, evaluation, crisis intervention, and assistance to persons suffering acute emotional or mental distress.

85.

 Psychiatric geriatric services. Provides care to emotionally disturbed elderly patients, including those admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment.
86. Psychiatric outpatient services. Provides medical care, including diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric outpatients.
87. Psychiatric partial hospitalization services. Organized hospital services of intensive day/evening outpatient services of three hours or more duration, distinguished from other outpatient visits of one hour.
88. CT scanner.

Computed tomographic scanner for head and whole body scans.
89. Diagnostic radioisotope facility. The use of radioactive isotopes (Radiopharmaceutical) as tracers or indicators to detect an abnormal condition or disease.
90. Electron Beam Computed Tomography (EBCT) A high tech computed tomography scan used to detect coronary artery disease by measuring coronary calcifications. This imaging procedure uses electron beams which are magnetically steered to produce a visual of the coronary arterty and the images are produced faster than conventional CT scans.

91.

 

Full-field digital mammography (FFDM)

 Combines the x-ray generators and tubes used in analog screen-film mammography (SFM) with a detector plate that converts the x-rays into digital signal.
92. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) The use of a uniform magnetic field and radio frequencies to study tissue and structure of the body. This procedure enables the visualization of biochemical activity of the cell in vivo without the use of ionizing radiation, radioisotopic substances, or high-frequency sound.
93. Multi-slice Spiral Computed Tomography (MSCT). A specialized computed tomography procedure that provides three-dimensional processing and allows narrower and multiple slices with increased spatial resolution and faster scanning times as compared to a regular computed tomography scan.

94.

 Multi-slice spiral computed tomography (64+ slice CT). Involves the acquisition of volumetric tomographic x-ray absorption data expressed in Hounsfield units using multiple rows of detectors. 64+ systems reconstruct the equivalent of 64 or greater slices to cover the imaged volume.
95. Positron emission tomography scanner (PET) Is a nuclear medicine imaging technology which uses radioactive (position emitting) isotopes created in a cyclotron or generator and computers to produce composite pictures of the brain and heart at work. PET scanning produces sectional images depicting metabolic activity or blood flow rather than anatomy.
96. Position emission tomography (PET/CT). Provides metabolic functional information for the monitoring of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical planning.
97. Single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT). Is a nuclear medicine imaging technology that combines existing technology of gamma camera imaging with computed tomographic imaging technology to provide a more precise and clear image.
98. Ultrasound. The use of acoustic waves above the range of 20,000 cycles per second to visualize internal body structures.
99. Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) Automated system for image-guided radiation therapy that enables clinicians to obtain high-resolution x-ray images to pinpoint tumor sites, adjust patient positioning when necessary, and complete a treatment, all within the standard treatment time slot, allowing for more effective cancer treatments.
100. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) A type of three-dimensional radiation therapy, which improves the targeting of treatment delivery in a way that is likely to decrease damage to normal tissues and allows varying intensities diagnosis of genetic diseases in newborns, children, and adults; the identification of future health risks; the prediction of drug responses; and the assessment of risks to future children.
101. Shaped beam radiation system. A precise, non-invasive treatment that involves targeting beams of radiation that mirror the exact size and shape of a tumor at a specific area of a tumor to shrink or destroy cancerous cells. This procedure delivers a therapeutic dose of radiation that conforms precisely to the shape of the tumor, thus minimizing the risk to nearby tissues.
102. Stereotactic radiosurgery. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a radiotherapy modality that delivers a high dosage of radiation to a discrete treatment area in as few as one treatment session. Includes gamma knife, cyberknife, etc.
103. Fertility Clinic. A specialized program set in an infertility center that provides counseling and education as welll as advanced reproductive techniques such as: injectable therapy, reproductive surgeries, treatment for endometriosis, male factor infertility, tubal reversals, in vitro fertilization (IVF), donor eggs, and other such services to help patients achieve successful pregnancies.
104. Genetic Testing/Counseling. A service equipped with adequate laboratory facilities and directed by a qualified physician to advise parents and prospective parents on potential problems in cases of genetic defects. A genetic test is the analysis of human DNA, RNA, chromosomes, proteins, and certain metabolites in order to detect heritable disease-related genotypes, mutations, phenotypes, or karyotypes for clinical purposes. Genetic tests can have diverse purposes, including the diagnosis of genetic diseases in newborns, children, and adults; the identification of future health risks; the prediction of drug responses; and the assessment of risks to future children.
105. Retirement housing. A facility which provides social activities to senior citizens, usually retired persons, who do not require health care but some short-term skilled nursing care may be provided. A retirement center may furnish housing and may also have acute hospital and long-term care facilities, or it may arrrange for acute and long term care through affiliated institutions.
106. Robotic surgery. The use of mechanical guidance devices to remotely manipulate surgical instrumentation.
107. Skilled nursing. Provides non-acute medical and skilled nursing care services, therapy, and social services under the supervision of a licensed registered nurse on a 24-hour basis.
108. Sleep Center. Specially equipped and staffed center for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.
109. Social work services. Services may include one or more of the followoing: Organized social work services (services that are properly directed and sufficiently staffed by qualified individuals who provide assistance and counseling to patients and their families in dealing with social, emotional, and environmental problems associated with illness or disability, often in the context of financial or discharge planning coordination.) Outpatient social work services (social work services provided in ambulatory care areas.) Emergency department social work services (social work services provided to emergency department patients by social workers dedicated to the emergency department or on call.)
110. Sports medicine. Provision of diagnostic screening and assessment and clinical and rehabilitation services for the prevention and treatment of sports-related injuries.
111. Support groups A hospital sponsored program which allows a group of individuals with the same or similar problems who meet periodically to share experiences, problems, and solutions, in order to support each other.
112. Swing bed services. A hospital bed that can be used to provide either acute or long-term care depending on community or patients needs. To be eligible a hospital must have a Medicare provider agreement in place, have fewer than 100 beds, be located in a rural area, not have a 24 hour nursing service waiver in effect, have not been terminated from the program in the prior two years, and meet various service conditions.
113. Teen outreach services. A program focusing on the teenager which encourages an improved health status and a healthful lifestyle including physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and economic health through education, exercise, nutrition and health promotion.
114. Tobacco Treatment/Cessation Program Organized hospital services with the purpose of ending tobacco-use habits of patients addicted to tobacco/nicotine.
115-121. Transplant services. The branch of medicine that transfers an organ or tissue from one person to another or from one body part to another to replace a diseased structure or to restore function or to change appearance. Services could include: Bone marrow transplant program (115. Bone marrow); heart (116. Heart); kidney (117. Kidney); liver (118. Liver); lung (119. Lung); tissue (120. Tissue Transplant). Please include heart/lung or other multi-transplant surgeries in other (121. Other).
122. Transportation to health services. A long-term care support service designed to assist mobility of the elderly. Some programs offer improved financial access by offering reduced rates and barrier-free buses or vans with ramps and lifts to assist the elderly or handicapped; others offer subsidies for public transport systems or operate mini-bus services exclusively for use by senior citizens.
123. Urgent care center. A facility that provides care and treatment for problems that are not life-threatening but require attention over the short term. These units function like emergency rooms but are separate from hospitals with which they may have backup affiliation arrangements.
124. Virtual colonoscopy. Noninvasive screening procedure used to visualize, analyze and detect cancerous or potentially cancerous polyps in the colon.
125. Volunteer services department. An organized hospital department responsible for coordinating the services of volunteers working within the institution.
126. Women's health center/services. An area set aside for coordinated education and treatment services specifically for and promoted by women as provided by this special unit. Services may or may not include obstetrics buy include a range of services other than OB.
127. Wound management services. Services for patients with chronic wounds and non-healing wounds often resulting from diabetes, poor circulation, improper seating and immunocompromising conditions. The goals are to progress chronic wounds through stages of healing, reduce and eliminate infections, increase physical function to minimize complications from current wounds and prevent future chronic woulds. Wound management services are provided on an inpatient or outpatient basis, depending on the intensity of service needed.