Access
Bring wound-care follow-up closer to patients who cannot reliably reach a clinic.
Our approach
A community-based limb preservation and healing program.
Healing requires more than dressing changes. Gateway connects access, continuity, coordination, partnership, and prevention so wound care can move with the patient across homes, facilities, discharge pathways, and provider offices.
GatewayWound Care
Referral desk
Request care or refer a patient.
Share where the patient is, what kind of wound it is, and who is coordinating care. Gateway routes the next step across homes, facilities, and referral partners.
1Home, facility, or discharge setting
2Wound type and what changed
3Best contact person
Greater St. Louis focus
West County office
Mobile + facility pathways
The Gateway model
Five principles guide the program.
The clinical plan has to work in the setting where the patient actually lives or receives care. That means matching wound treatment with risk factors, transportation, diabetes, vascular status, caregiver support, facility workflow, and care-team communication.
Continuity
Keep the wound plan visible between hospital, home, facility, home health, and physician visits.
Coordination
Communicate with the people responsible for the patient so the plan does not disappear.
Partnership
Work with hospitals, home health, post-acute providers, primary care, specialists, and community organizations.
Prevention
Reduce avoidable deterioration, recurrence, readmission, infection risk, and limb-loss risk.
Talk to Gateway
Call 314-325-0126 or email [email protected] with the wound-care question and best contact person.
Learn moreCare pathway
From access problem to healing plan.
Gateway is built to create a practical wound-care pathway, not a one-off dressing visit.
1. Identify the access gap
Transport, mobility, discharge confusion, facility workflow, home health limits, or weak provider follow-up.
2. Assess the wound and patient
Wound measurements, tissue, drainage, pain, infection concern, diabetes context, vascular concern, offloading, compression, and setting.
3. Treat and document
Advanced wound care, appropriate debridement, dressing strategy, NPWT support, compression, graft aftercare, and progress notes.
4. Coordinate the team
Family, facility, home health, physician, specialist, discharge team, and community partner updates when appropriate.
5. Prevent the next breakdown
Recurring wound risk, pressure, edema, glucose, smoking, nutrition, mobility, skin protection, and escalation triggers.
Talk to Gateway
Call 314-325-0126 or email [email protected] with the wound-care question and best contact person.
Learn moreWhole-patient context
Wound care is rarely only about the wound.
Diabetes, vascular disease, smoking, nutrition, weight, edema, offloading, mobility, infection risk, home safety, and caregiver capacity all shape whether a wound heals. Gateway keeps those practical realities in the conversation.
The point is disciplined, locally grounded wound care that helps patients heal while giving referral partners a reliable next step.