Nurse-practitioner-led mobile wound care for post-surgical wound patients in Creve Coeur — at home, in assisted living, or in skilled nursing. No clinic trip, no transportation burden.
Creve Coeur's concentration of BJC WashU surgical practices — general surgery, colorectal, vascular, plastic, orthopedic — creates a correspondingly high volume of post-surgical wound complications in the surrounding neighborhoods. When a surgical wound dehisces, becomes infected, or is intentionally left to close by secondary intention, the resulting care requirement is daily or every-other-day dressing changes, weekly professional assessment, and close communication with the operating surgeon for 4 to 16+ weeks. That is an enormous logistical burden for a post-operative patient, especially one recovering from abdominal or orthopedic surgery. Gateway's nurse practitioners come to Creve Coeur homes, condos, and senior communities directly — typically within 24 to 48 business hours of a referral.
Our Creve Coeur post-surgical patient panel spans the Conway, Ladue Crossing, Old Creve Coeur, and Westwood Farms neighborhoods, plus residents of The Gatesworth, Brooking Park on S. Woods Mill Rd, and Parc Provence memory-care households. Most referrals arrive from Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital's N. Ballas Rd campus, from the BJC WashU surgical practices clustered along Olive Blvd, and from the hospital-affiliated ambulatory surgical centers in the area. We also receive referrals from Mercy surgical services whose patients live in Creve Coeur.
Our NPs document wound characteristics at every visit with measurements and photos, perform bedside debridement of slough and devitalized tissue, manage packing and dressing selection based on wound exudate and infection status, and initiate NPWT for qualifying dehisced or deep wounds meeting Medicare LCD criteria. We communicate with the operating surgeon directly — fax, HIPAA-email, or phone — so no one is working in the dark on a post-operative patient. Benefits verification is complete before your first Creve Coeur visit.
Most surgical incisions heal by primary intention without incident, but a meaningful minority — especially in patients with diabetes, obesity, immunosuppression, or prior radiation — develop complications: wound dehiscence (partial or complete separation of the wound edges), surgical site infection (superficial, deep, or organ/space), seroma formation, or slow healing of a clean wound left to close by secondary intention. These patients often leave the hospital or ambulatory surgical center with an open wound that needs ongoing packing, dressing changes, and assessment — care that a nurse practitioner can deliver in the patient's home without the transportation burden and infection exposure that clinic or ER visits entail. Our NPs communicate directly with the operating surgeon and primary care team at every visit so no one is working in the dark.
Depth, surface area, tunneling, undermining, and tissue composition measured and photographed at every visit; findings faxed or sent via HIPAA-compliant channel to the surgeon of record.
Saline, hydrofera, alginate, or antimicrobial packing matched to wound characteristics. Bedside debridement for slough or devitalized tissue.
Wound vac therapy for qualifying dehisced or deep surgical wounds; prompt escalation to the operating surgeon if infection, necrosis, or deterioration is observed.
Creve Coeur sits in the heart of West County's medical corridor, with Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital on N. Ballas Rd, Mercy Hospital St. Louis campuses along I-270, and an extensive concentration of physician offices clustered around Olive Blvd and Ballas. Many of our Creve Coeur referrals come directly from BJC WashU specialty clinics.
Creve Coeur is a dense medical-office corridor with a long-established senior population — including a large share of residents aging in place in single-family homes along Conway Rd, Ladue Rd, and Olive Blvd, plus several upscale assisted living communities.
We also serve patients recovering at home in Creve Coeur's neighborhoods — including Conway, Ladue Crossing, Bellerive Country Club area, Old Creve Coeur, Westwood Farms.
“Real patient and family testimonials from our Creve Coeur service area will be published here once we complete HIPAA-compliant testimonial collection with written patient authorization.”— Gateway Wound Care, Creve Coeur
Serving every address in Creve Coeur, MO — ZIP codes 63141, 63146 — and throughout our 50-mile Greater St. Louis service area. View full service area.