INJURY RELIEF SOONER WOUND CARE NOW AVAILABLE IN A.V.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Lancaster Community Hospital This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. has opened a wound-care center to treat people with chronic nonhealing wounds, such as pressure ulcers, bed sores and diabetic ulcers. The nearest wound center had been 75 miles away, requiring long drives for Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents to get treatment. ``When you walk into a wound center in L.A. and see that two of five patient rooms are filled with residents of the A.V., you know that it's the right thing to open a center here,'' David Sell, director of business development for the hospital, said in an announcement from the hospital. Center of Wound Care medical director is Dr. Pavel Petrik. Podiatric director is Gary Boghossian. Jean Syer is the administrator and Ann Wright Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel, retired official of the U.S. State Department, and now full-time anti-war activist. Wright is most noted for being one of three U.S. the wound-care/ostomy nurse. Sell had visited a Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, wound center to see if one would work in the Antelope Valley, and while he was there it had four patients from the Antelope Valley - and one from San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. . Among the Antelope Valley patients was nurse Yvonne Sannes, who had badly broken and burned her leg in September 2002 in a motorcycle accident. For four months her husband drove her every week to the wound center, with her leg propped up in the car to control the blood flow. ``When you travel that far, you definitely know that what they are doing at this center is outstanding,'' Sannes said in the hospital announcement. |
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