Two Locations

Riverside Medical Arts Complex     Suite 300 700 Lea Boulevard Wilmington, DE 19802 Phone: 302-765-4132 Fax: 302-765-4433

Smyrna Health and Wellness Center 100 S. Main Street Smyrna, DE 19977 Phone: 302-765-4132 Fax: 302-765-4433

The Christiana Care Wound Care Center provides technically advanced, surgical and non-surgical interdisciplinary outpatient care that is highly effective in healing wounds that resist conventional therapy. Our specialized team evaluates and treats the wound, and establishes measures to prevent recurrence.

Chronic non-healing wounds are wounds that have not shown improvement in four weeks or fail to heal in eight weeks. These include: neuropathic ulcers in patients with diabetes, ulcers on ischemic limbs (poor circulation), pressure ulcers (due to immobility) and venous stasis leg ulcers.

At the Wound Care Center we measure success by how well our patients heal:

• More than 87% of our patients are discharged within the program's average length of stay benchmark. ( The average number of visits is between eight and 14 visits depending on size and severity of the wound and other medical factors)
• The Christiana Care Wound Care Center has received four "National Healing Achievement Awards" for excellence for exceeding the national healing average among Wound Care Centers(r) in the United States.
• Seven kinds of board-certified physician specialists in addition to a certified diabetes educator and certified wound care nurses can be found practicing within the Wound Care Center:

Physician Specialties

• Internal Medicine
• Family Practice
• Podiatry
• Vascular Surgery
• General Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
• Infectious disease

Nursing Specialties

• Certified Diabetes Educator
• Registered Nurse Certified Wound Specialist

All diagnostic studies and evaluations needed to treat chronic non-healing wounds can be done within the Christiana Care Health System.

The Wound Care Center recently moved to a new spacious location on the Riverside campus that offers an increased number of spacious examination rooms, a comfortable private waiting area for stretcher patients, and new equipment to allow for skin grafting and application of skin substitutes on site at the Wound Care Center.

The Christiana Care Wound Care Center is affiliated with Wound Care Centers Inc., a healthcare leader in wound management with a network of more than 150 Wound Care Centers in the United States and Mexico, 30 Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy centers, more than 3,500 physician wound care specialists and a clinical treatment database of over 1.2 million chronic wounds. The clinical protocols of the Christiana Care Wound Care Center have achieved JCAHO Disease Specific Certification.

Patients must have a physician's referral to be treated at the Christiana Care Wound Care Center.  To schedule an appointment, call 302-765-4132.