Wound Care on Wheels is a community outreach program created to provide quality, accessible wound management services to community members who do not currently have access to these services. The program will target the homebound as well as the underserved areas of the northeast Florida region.

The first part of the program is to provide wound management services to the homebound residents of the Greater Jacksonville area. Our Nurse Practitioner goes out to patient homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Nursing Homes, etc. to provide home wound management services. She works with existing home health agencies to coordinate the wound treatment plan of care. De Anna also serves as a consultant to Home Health Agencies and physicians to coordinate home wound management services and many times to make referrals to other specialists such as vascular or infectious disease.

The second part of the program is the development of a 30 foot bus which is designed to serve as a medical office for the treatment of wounds. Wound Care on Wheels has initially targeted areas in Jacksonville that lack wound mangement services such as the northside and westside. Eventually Wound Care on Wheels will expand to include areas such as the Fernandina Beach/Yulee/Callahan regions north of the city and the Palatka/Hastings areas south of the city. Wound Care on Wheels will have two treatment rooms and a waiting room. We expect Wound Care on Wheels to begin during the second quarter of 2005.