CCHS Will Offer First Hyperbaric Wound Suite in the Area

DAYTON-At last week's hospital board meeting the commissioners approved a request from CEO Shane McGuire to proceed with the development of a hyperbaric wound suite at the hospital, which will be the first of its kind in the local community, he said.

"I feel confident we can make a run at this. This is a new service line. It is not offered in the region. It would be exclusive to us, for whatever time we could maintain it exclusively," McGuire said.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat a variety of medical conditions ranging from non healing wounds to burns to carbon monoxide poisoning. W...