BUSINESS BUZZ: Englewood Hospital's Wound Care Center earns award
• HCA Florida Englewood Hospital’s Wound Care Center was recently awarded the Center of Distinction award by Healogics.
The center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including healing rates for diabetic wounds to complex arterial ulcers and patient satisfaction rates higher than 92%.
Wound care involves medical intervention to heal a wound after injury. The Wound Care Center specializes in treatments for patients suffering from conditions like diabetes, peripheral artery disease, cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that increase the likelihood of a person having or developing a chronic wound.
If left untreated, chronic wounds can lead to diminished quality of life and possibly amputation of the affected limb.
• The Sarasota Memorial Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute has earned accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer. This recognition is granted only to those programs that are committed to providing the highest quality care to patients with rectal cancer.
Sarasota Memorial demonstrated compliance with a rigorous set of standards held by the NAPRC that address program management, clinical services and quality improvement for rectal cancer patients. This designation is a result of the work being done at the Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute to provide patients on the Suncoast with treatments and support only found at the nation’s best cancer centers.
The Cancer Institute established a multidisciplinary rectal cancer team, including medical and radiation oncology, surgery, pathology, radiology and gastroenterology in order to achieve this accreditation.
The NAPRC conducts a site visit every three years for accredited rectal cancer programs, which are also accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.
• Caldwell Trust Co. has moved into its new downtown Sarasota office, a historic building at 27 S. Orange Ave. Formerly known as the Cain Building and the Cain-Wilson Building, the location is now the Caldwell Trust Co. building.
The 10,000-square-foot building with a 2,000-square-foot portico will accommodate the steady growth the company has undergone since its founding in 1993, said R.G. “Kelly” Caldwell Jr., CEO and president.
In 2015, the company built an 11,500-square-foot headquarters at 1400 Center Road, Venice, for its expanding operations. By its 25th anniversary three years later, it had reached the milestone of $1 billion in assets under management.
Caldwell Trust has maintained a Sarasota presence since 1998, when it opened an office in Palmer Ranch. In 2009 it established its current office on Main Street, but rapidly outgrew the space.
The new location, on Orange Avenue, was designed by acclaimed architect Thomas Reed Martin and completed in October 1936.
• A Charlotte County Home Watch has earned accreditation from the National Home Watch Association.
The NHWA was formed to establish and maintain the highest industry standards for home watch services throughout the United States and Canada.
Father-and-daughter team Bobby Miller and Ashley Rubin own and operate the business.
Miller moved to Port Charlotte in the 1980s from Little Falls, New Jersey.
Rubin was born and raised in Charlotte County. She lives in North Port with her husband, Jason, and their daughter.
A Charlotte County Home Watch serves Sarasota, North Port, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda and Englewood.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Wound Care Center earns award, SMH's Cancer Institute accredited
